Database Reference
This project keeps local SQLite metadata databases for Danbooru, Gelbooru, and a deduplicated quality union.
Databases
| DB | Purpose |
|---|---|
quality_80_union.db |
Main query DB: Gelbooru 80 selection union Danbooru 80 selection, deduped by md5 |
gelbooru.db |
Normalized Gelbooru source metadata |
danbooru2025_candidate.db |
Danbooru source metadata with md5 |
danbooru.db |
Older Danbooru DB retained for compatibility |
SQLite -shm and -wal files are runtime sidecars. They are not part of the
durable data model.
quality_80_union.db
images
2,988,704 rows. Primary key: md5.
| Column | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
md5 |
TEXT PK | File hash used for deduplication |
canonical_rating |
TEXT | Stricter merged rating |
canonical_file_url |
TEXT | Unified original file URL |
canonical_preview_url |
TEXT | Unified preview URL, mostly Gelbooru |
canonical_sample_url |
TEXT | Unified sample URL, mostly Gelbooru |
canonical_source |
TEXT | Unified source URL |
canonical_width |
INTEGER | Unified image width |
canonical_height |
INTEGER | Unified image height |
present_in_gelbooru |
INTEGER | 1 if this md5 exists in Gelbooru |
present_in_danbooru |
INTEGER | 1 if this md5 exists in Danbooru |
selected_by_gelbooru80 |
INTEGER | 1 if selected by Gelbooru 80th-threshold rule |
selected_by_danbooru80 |
INTEGER | 1 if selected by Danbooru 80th-threshold rule |
quality_score |
REAL | max(gelbooru_score_pct, danbooru_score_pct), range 0..1 |
quality_tier |
TEXT | Current tier label, p80 |
gelbooru_id |
INTEGER | Gelbooru post ID, nullable |
gelbooru_rating |
TEXT | Gelbooru rating, nullable |
gelbooru_score |
INTEGER | Gelbooru raw score, nullable |
gelbooru_score_pct |
REAL | Gelbooru rating-bucket percentile, nullable |
gelbooru_file_url |
TEXT | Gelbooru original file URL, nullable |
gelbooru_preview_url |
TEXT | Gelbooru preview URL, nullable |
gelbooru_sample_url |
TEXT | Gelbooru sample URL, nullable |
gelbooru_source |
TEXT | Gelbooru source URL/text, nullable |
gelbooru_tags_text |
TEXT | Gelbooru raw tag string, nullable |
gelbooru_status |
TEXT | Gelbooru post status, nullable |
danbooru_id |
INTEGER | Danbooru post ID, nullable |
danbooru_rating |
TEXT | Danbooru rating mapped to full names, nullable |
danbooru_score |
INTEGER | Danbooru raw score, nullable |
danbooru_score_pct |
REAL | Danbooru rating-bucket percentile, nullable |
danbooru_file_url |
TEXT | Danbooru original file URL, nullable |
danbooru_source |
TEXT | Danbooru source URL/text, nullable |
danbooru_pixiv_id |
INTEGER | Pixiv artwork ID from Danbooru, nullable |
danbooru_fav_count |
INTEGER | Danbooru favorite count, nullable |
danbooru_file_size |
INTEGER | Danbooru file size in bytes, nullable |
danbooru_file_ext |
TEXT | Danbooru file extension, nullable |
image_parquet_file |
TEXT | Future local image parquet shard filename, nullable |
Source-specific fields are nullable because the DB is a union. Use
present_in_gelbooru and present_in_danbooru to interpret which side fields
are expected to exist.
image_parquet_file is intentionally nullable until image parquet shards are
written by a later storage pipeline.
URL Fields
| Field | Non-empty rows |
|---|---|
canonical_file_url |
2,988,704 |
canonical_preview_url |
2,696,467 |
canonical_sample_url |
1,667,457 |
canonical_source |
2,766,129 |
gelbooru_file_url |
2,696,467 |
gelbooru_preview_url |
2,696,467 |
gelbooru_sample_url |
1,667,457 |
gelbooru_source |
2,451,875 |
danbooru_file_url |
2,428,840 |
danbooru_source |
2,386,988 |
Use canonical_file_url for a single original image URL. Use source-specific
URL fields when the caller needs provenance.
Tags
| Table | Meaning |
|---|---|
gelbooru_image_tags(md5, tag_name) |
Gelbooru tag associations |
danbooru_image_tags(md5, tag_name, tag_type) |
Danbooru tag associations |
Quality Score
quality_score uses rating_bucket_cume_dist_v1.
pct(score, rating) = count(score <= current_score within rating) / count(rating)
quality_score = max(gelbooru_score_pct, danbooru_score_pct)
Current verified counts:
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
| Total images | 2,988,704 |
quality_score >= 0.8 |
2,973,255 |
quality_score < 0.8 |
15,449 |
quality_score = 1.0 |
9 |
| Selected by Gelbooru 80 | 2,034,916 |
| Selected by Danbooru 80 | 1,850,329 |
| Selected by both | 896,541 |
| Selected by neither | 0 |
| Present in both sources | 2,136,603 |
The DB is still the union of both raw 80th-threshold selections. The <0.8
rows are boundary rows caused by discrete raw-score buckets after true
percentile repair.
gelbooru.db
Verified counts:
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
| posts | 9,956,288 |
| tags | 931,306 |
| post_tags | 321,358,388 |
Main schema:
posts(id, created_at, score, width, height, md5, directory, image,
rating, source, change, owner, creator_id, parent_id, sample,
preview_height, preview_width, tags, title, has_notes, has_comments,
file_url, preview_url, sample_url, sample_height, sample_width,
status, post_locked, has_children, attr_limit, attr_offset, attr_count)
tags(id, name)
post_tags(post_id, tag_id)
danbooru2025_candidate.db
Verified counts:
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
| posts | 9,113,284 |
| tags | 859,440 |
| post_tags | 330,953,940 |
Main schema:
posts(id, pixiv_id, source, rating, score, fav_count,
image_width, image_height, file_size, file_ext,
md5, file_url, created_at, updated_at, uploader_id, parent_id)
tags(id, name, type)
post_tags(post_id, tag_id)
Danbooru raw ratings are g, s, q, e; the union DB maps them to
general, sensitive, questionable, explicit.
Rebuild and Repair
/Users/charslee/miniconda3/bin/python3 convert_gelbooru.py --overwrite
/Users/charslee/miniconda3/bin/python3 convert_danbooru.py \
--output-db /Users/charslee/Repo/private/pixiv_spider/danbooru2025_candidate.db
/Users/charslee/miniconda3/bin/python3 build_quality_union_db.py --overwrite
/Users/charslee/miniconda3/bin/python3 repair_quality_percentiles.py
Known Technical Debt
quality_80_union.dbkeeps staging tables:selected_md5,selected_gelbooru_posts,selected_danbooru_posts.quality_80_union.dbkeeps percentile lookup tables:gel_score_percentiles,dan_score_percentiles.- Do not vacuum or rebuild the 26 GB union DB by default on low free disk space. A safe cleanup needs enough temporary room for SQLite to rewrite the database.