statement: dialect-neutral SQL statement model, renderer and executor

pom.xml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.eclipse.daanse</groupId>
     <artifactId>org.eclipse.daanse.pom.parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.0.6</version>
+    <version>0.0.7</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>org.eclipse.daanse.sql</artifactId>
   <version>${revision}</version>
@@ -81,5 +81,6 @@
   <modules>
     <module>guard</module>
     <module>deparser</module>
+    <module>statement</module>
   </modules>
 </project>

statement/api/pom.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+/*********************************************************************
+* Copyright (c) 2026 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation.
+*
+* This program and the accompanying materials are made
+* available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+* which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+*
+* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+**********************************************************************/
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.eclipse.daanse</groupId>
+    <artifactId>org.eclipse.daanse.sql.statement</artifactId>
+    <version>${revision}</version>
+  </parent>
+  <artifactId>org.eclipse.daanse.sql.statement.api</artifactId>
+  <name>Daanse SQL Query Builder API</name>
+  <description>Immutable query model, fluent assembler and renderer contract for
+    the
+    dialect-agnostic SQL query builder. Depends on the dialect API only for the
+    shared
+    value types (Datatype, BestFitColumnType); contains no dialect behaviour.</description>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.eclipse.daanse</groupId>
+      <artifactId>org.eclipse.daanse.jdbc.db.dialect.api</artifactId>
+      <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>

statement/api/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/statement/api/DeleteStatementBuilder.java

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2026 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made
+ * available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+ * which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *   SmartCity Jena - initial
+ *   Stefan Bischof (bipolis.org) - initial
+ */
+package org.eclipse.daanse.sql.statement.api;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+import org.eclipse.daanse.jdbc.db.api.schema.TableReference;
+import org.eclipse.daanse.sql.statement.api.expression.Predicate;
+import org.eclipse.daanse.sql.statement.api.model.DeleteStatement;
+
+/** Mutable, dialect-free builder for a {@link DeleteStatement}. */
+public final class DeleteStatementBuilder {
+
+    private TableReference table;
+    private final List<Predicate> filters = new ArrayList<>();
+    private String footerComment;
+
+    private DeleteStatementBuilder() {
+    }
+
+    public static DeleteStatementBuilder create() {
+        return new DeleteStatementBuilder();
+    }
+
+    public DeleteStatementBuilder from(String table) {
+        this.table = new TableReference(table);
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public DeleteStatementBuilder from(String schema, String table) {
+        this.table = From.tableRef(schema, table);
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public DeleteStatementBuilder from(TableReference table) {
+        this.table = table;
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public DeleteStatementBuilder where(Predicate predicate) {
+        filters.add(predicate);
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets an optional trailing explanatory comment, appended at the very end
+     * (emitted only when comments are on).
+     */
+    public DeleteStatementBuilder footerComment(String comment) {
+        this.footerComment = comment;
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public DeleteStatement build() {
+        return new DeleteStatement(Objects.requireNonNull(table, "table"), List.copyOf(filters),
+                java.util.Optional.ofNullable(footerComment));
+    }
+}