DuckDB

is an analytical in-process SQL database management system.

Official documentation

Official DuckDB documentation.

Official blog

Official DuckDB blog.

DuckDB RSS feed

Feed for the official DuckDB blog.

DuckDB clients

Client APIs for DuckDB.

DuckDB documentation PDF

The DuckDB documentation as a single PDF file.

DuckDB documentation MD

The DuckDB documentation as a single Markdown file.

DuckLake

A lakehouse format from the team behind DuckDB.

duckdb-docker

Official Docker image for the DuckDB CLI.

DuckDB setup

GitHub Action to install DuckDB in CI.

Serverless DuckDB over S3

Running DuckDB over a data lake on S3 using lambda.

DuckDB snippets

Collection of snippets curated by MotherDuck.

DuckDB tldr page

DuckDB's entry in tldr pages, available in CLI via the tldr duckdb command.

DuckDB AWS Lambda layer (Node.js)

Run DuckDB in AWS Lambda functions.

DuckDB AWS Lambda layer (Python)

Run DuckDB in AWS Lambda functions using Python.

Serverless DuckDB as API

Use DuckDB as API with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.

Serverless Parquet Repartitioner

Use DuckDB to repartition data in S3-based Data Lakes.

Observable notebooks

Notebooks using DuckDB on the Observable data visualization platform.

duckdb-nf

Example uses of DuckDB with Nextflow.

DuckERD CLI

A CLI tool to create an ER Diagram from DuckDB database files.

SQLNotebook

SQL notebooks by TimerStored powered by DuckDB.

DuckDB execution plan visualizer

Visualizing and understanding DuckDB EXPLAIN plans made easy.

Awesome DuckLake

A curated list of awesome DuckLake tools and resources.

DuckDB in Science

A collection of scientific papers building on DuckDB.

Official installation page

Brew formula

DuckDB version manager (duckman)

Cross-platform installer and version manager for DuckDB.

Snap package

Snap package of DuckDB, e.g., for Ubuntu Linux.

Chocolatey packages

Chocolatey package for Windows.

DuckDB Newsletter

Monthly newsletter by MotherDuck.

Learn DuckDB by example

Newsletter by Tobias Müller.

Logos

DuckDB logos.

Iconify

Monochrome DuckDB icon in Iconify.

C

C++

CLI

Go

Haskell

Julia

Node.js

Python

R

Ruby

Rust

Swift

WebAssembly (Wasm)

ADBC

ODBC

.NET

Common Lisp

Common Lisp CFFI wrapper around the DuckDB C API. MIT.

PowerShell

Dart

PHP

PHP (PDO)

Definite

Definite pulls all your data into a single place for analytics and dashboards. No engineering or SQL required. Get a managed data warehouse (DuckDB), ELT, data modeling / transformations and BI in a single platform. (pricing)

Evidence

Generate reports using SQL and markdown. The DuckDB connector allows querying across DuckDB, CSV, Parquet and JSON. (Evidence Cloud)

Rill Data

Tool for effortlessly transforming data sets into powerful, opinionated dashboards using SQL. (Rill Cloud)

Shaper

Open-source SQL-driven data dashboards, powering Taleshape, built on DuckDB. (managed hosting)

Pondview

Open-source, DuckDB-powered BI workspace for AI-assisted analysis, SQL, charts, and dashboards.

Excellent Bi

Duck Powered simple analysis and business intelligence dashboard. Load excel, csv, parquet files, instantly query your data in the query analyzer tool, make multiple simple dashboards. Data stays local in OPFS local browser storage which is native to Edge and Chrome. (proprietary; free to use)

ReportBurster

Business Intelligence Done Right - ReportBurster uses DuckDB as its in-process analytics database engine, and for larger workloads, supports ClickHouse too. (SSPL v1, source-available)

Totsum Data Explorer

Desktop app (Windows, macOS) for a first look at CSV, Excel, JSON and Parquet files: plain-language questions are turned into DuckDB SQL by a language model that runs on the user's own machine. Can work on a computer with no network connection. (pricing)

Enso Analytics

Dual visual/textual programming language and analytics platform, allowing DuckDB to be used as a data engine for its visual analytics and low-code workflows. (Enso Cloud)

Latitude

Latitude uses DuckDB to power data snapshots. Drop a CSV file and query it with SQL at the speed of light. (paid cloud)

Apple Embedding Atlas

A tool that provides interactive visualizations for large embeddings. Uses DuckDB.

Cloudspecs

Live visualization tool that enables cloud system architects to answer specific instance selection questions, powered by DuckDB-Wasm.

Cosmograph

Beautiful visualization and analytics right in the browser. (proprietary app with a free non-commercial tier; its cosmos.gl library is open source)

Datakit

The privacy-first data analysis toolkit. (proprietary; free tier)

Kavla

A collaborative data analysis tool. (proprietary; free to use)

OpenSheet

Spreadsheet-style data tool with visual canvas, inline editing, and AI commands for SQL transformations. (proprietary; free to use)

Bauplan

A serverless data transformation platform for data lakes. (pricing)

SQLMesh

A next-generation data transformation and modeling framework with support for DuckDB connections for state, transformations & running unit tests locally. (Tobiko Cloud)

AnkaFlow

YAML-based data pipeline framework that runs both locally and fully in-browser designed for data engineers, ML teams, and SaaS developers who need flexible, SQL-powered pipelines.

DatalakeStudio

Load, explore, transform your datasets and expose them via API. Integration with external APIs, S3, PostgreSQL and ChatGPT.

Duckle

Local-first visual ETL/ELT studio. Drag sources, transforms and sinks onto a canvas; it compiles to plain DuckDB SQL and runs entirely on DuckDB. Open source desktop app, with a built-in MCP server for generating and running pipelines from natural language.

ETLX

DuckDB-powered ETL tool written in Go, inspired by evidence.dev's syntax. It uses a structured Markdown config where heading levels define nested blocks, yaml code blocks specify metadata, and sql code blocks handle data interactions. Enables clean, code-light orchestration with minimal setup.

yato

The smallest DuckDB SQL orchestrator on Earth.

Amphi ETL

Low-code data pipelines for structured and unstructured data. SQL transformations are powered by DuckDB. (Elastic License 2.0, source-available)

Boiling Data

Serverless data analytics overlay on top of S3 Data Lakes. (pricing)

DBConvert Streams

Database IDE and migration tool with DuckDB-powered federated SQL. (pricing)

Greybeam

Routes your Snowflake queries to a DuckDB powered warehouse to reduce costs and speed up queries. (pricing)

Varan

Desktop SQL client that runs one query across PostgreSQL, MySQL, DuckDB and CSV/Excel files, allowing multi-source JOINs and data versioning powered by a local-first DuckDB engine. (pricing)

Arc

Time-series data warehouse built on DuckDB. (commercial license)

Spice.ai

A unified SQL query interface and portable runtime to locally materialize (using an embedded DuckDB), accelerate, and query datasets from any database, data warehouse, or data lake. (Spice.ai Cloud)

DataSpoc Lens

Virtual warehouse over cloud Parquet. SQL shell, Jupyter/Marimo notebooks, AI natural language queries, and local cache — all powered by DuckDB.

Hugr

An data mesh platform and high-performance GraphQL backend powered by DuckDB.

Quackpipe

Serverless OLAP API/UI built on top of DuckDB with basic ClickHouse API compatibility and MotherDuck support.

UniverSQL

An implementation of Snowflake API, enables running queries on Snowflake tables locally with DuckDB without a running warehouse.

Boilstream

Manage with SQL, like for creating topics (tables) and derived topics (materialised views) - all landing on object storage in DuckLake as optimised Parquet files. (proprietary core shipped as binaries, free-forever community tier; SDKs are open source)

Bonnard

Governed, multi-tenant MCP access to customer data. Connects DuckDB (and Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres) to AI agents as a secure, per-customer MCP server. (pricing)

Census

Census's dataset diffing for incremental syncs is powered by DuckDB. (pricing — Census was acquired by Fivetran)

VulcanSQL

DuckDB can be used as a caching layer or a data connector in VulcanSQL, a Data API framework for data folks to create REST APIs by writing SQL templates.

HitKeep

Open-source, privacy-first web analytics for traffic, funnels, ecommerce, Search Console, and AI visibility. Runs as a single Go binary with embedded DuckDB. (HitKeep Cloud)

Phoenix Analytics

Plug and play analytics for Phoenix applications, powered by DuckDB.

stratif.io

Open-source, self-hosted, warehouse-native product analytics. Runs funnels, retention, and paths on DuckDB (and Postgres, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Databricks).

Honeycomb Maps

A browser-based geospatial analysis tool leveraging DuckDB-Wasm. (pricing)

Kepler.gl

Kepler.gl is a powerful open-source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets, now embeds duckdb wasm to create geospatial layers.

Whereabouts

Fast, accurate, open-source geocoding in Python, using DuckDB.

Tailpipe

An open-source SIEM for instant log insights. (commercial license)

Sloggo

Minimal RFC 5424 syslog collector and viewer based on DuckDB. Runs as a single, resource-friendly process.

DataCharter

Local, contract-governed data explorer. Federates files and databases (Postgres, Snowflake, BigQuery, Excel, and more) through DuckDB — SQL editor, charts, profiling — then hands AI agents a PII-masked, read-only query surface over MCP. Apache-2.0.

DQOps

Data quality platform for data engineers, data quality teams and data operations. (Business Source License 1.1, source-available)

ADPivot

No code tool built on top of DuckDB-Wasm and Pyodide that helps build pivot tables from databases of any size with a few clicks.

duckdb.yazi

Preview csv/tsv, json, and Parquet files in the yazi file manager using duckdb. View the raw data, or a "summarized" view with data-types, min, max, avg etc. for all columns.

Huey

Blazing-fast & intuitive pivot tables on Parquet, CSV, JSON files and DuckDB tables in the browser based on DuckDB-Wasm. open-source (MIT). Zero install!

Parquet Explorer

Visual Studio Code extension for exploring Parquet files with SQL, powered by DuckDB.

Hex Dataframe SQL

Hex's Dataframe SQL cells are powered by DuckDB. (pricing)

Mode

Mode uses DuckDB for their in-memory data engine. (pricing)

geol

A command line tool to efficiently show end-of-life dates for a number of products in your terminal using the endoflife.date API, makes it possible to export the whole endoflife.date database as a fully featured DuckDB file.

Malloy

Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations. Malloy connects to BigQuery, Snowflake, Trino, and Postgres, and natively supports DuckDB.

SQLGlot

Python transpiler that translates between 24 different SQL dialects including DuckDB.

KoliLang

A SAS language engine (DATA step, macros, PROCs) that translates programs to DuckDB SQL — runs natively or fully in the browser on DuckDB-Wasm. (no published license; free to use)

connections.duckdb

Play the New York Times Connections Puzzle with DuckDB.

ReportBurster

Business Intelligence Done Right - ReportBurster uses DuckDB as its in-process analytics database engine, and for larger workloads, supports ClickHouse too. (SSPL v1, source-available)

DataSpoc Lens

Virtual warehouse over cloud Parquet. SQL shell, Jupyter/Marimo notebooks, AI natural language queries, and local cache — all powered by DuckDB.

stratif.io

Open-source, self-hosted, warehouse-native product analytics. Runs funnels, retention, and paths on DuckDB (and Postgres, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Databricks).

DBConvert Streams

Database IDE and migration tool with DuckDB-powered federated SQL. (pricing)

Duckle

Local-first visual ETL/ELT studio. Drag sources, transforms and sinks onto a canvas; it compiles to plain DuckDB SQL and runs entirely on DuckDB. Open source desktop app, with a built-in MCP server for generating and running pipelines from natural language.

HitKeep

Open-source, privacy-first web analytics for traffic, funnels, ecommerce, Search Console, and AI visibility. Runs as a single Go binary with embedded DuckDB. (HitKeep Cloud)

AnkaFlow

YAML-based data pipeline framework that runs both locally and fully in-browser designed for data engineers, ML teams, and SaaS developers who need flexible, SQL-powered pipelines.

KoliLang

A SAS language engine (DATA step, macros, PROCs) that translates programs to DuckDB SQL — runs natively or fully in the browser on DuckDB-Wasm. (no published license; free to use)

DataCharter

Local, contract-governed data explorer. Federates files and databases (Postgres, Snowflake, BigQuery, Excel, and more) through DuckDB — SQL editor, charts, profiling — then hands AI agents a PII-masked, read-only query surface over MCP. Apache-2.0.

Pondview

Open-source, DuckDB-powered BI workspace for AI-assisted analysis, SQL, charts, and dashboards.

Varan

Desktop SQL client that runs one query across PostgreSQL, MySQL, DuckDB and CSV/Excel files, allowing multi-source JOINs and data versioning powered by a local-first DuckDB engine. (pricing)

Totsum Data Explorer

Desktop app (Windows, macOS) for a first look at CSV, Excel, JSON and Parquet files: plain-language questions are turned into DuckDB SQL by a language model that runs on the user's own machine. Can work on a computer with no network connection. (pricing)

DUX

Self-hosted analytics stack with a semantic model, DAX-inspired queries compiled to DuckDB SQL, DuckLake storage and dashboards.

DuckDB OPFS Todo List App

A fully-functional todo list application that demonstrates DuckDB WASM OPFS (Origin Private File System) persistence using a pure functional programming approach. (no LICENSE file in repo)

DuckDB API

a TypeScript-based Docker image containing DuckDB, and a Hono framework REST API with JSON or streaming Arrow responses.

Mosaic DuckDB Server

A Python-based server that runs a local DuckDB instance and supports queries over Web Sockets or HTTP, returning data in either Apache Arrow or JSON format.

duckdb-server

A Rust-based server that runs a local DuckDB instance and supports queries over Web Sockets or HTTP/HTTPS, returning data in either Apache Arrow or JSON format.

Hydra ETL

Declarative YAML ETL engine that can run each transformation step on DuckDB or pandas.

Ibis Project

A DataFrame API for interacting with DuckDB (and other compute engines).

Narwhals

Lightweight and extensible compatibility layer between dataframe libraries, supports DuckDB.

SQLFrame

Implements the PySpark DataFrame API in order to enable running transformation pipelines directly on database engines such as DuckDB.

Mosaic

An extensible framework for linking databases and interactive views.

Fugue

A unified interface for distributed computing. Fugue executes SQL, Python, Pandas, and Polars code on Spark, Dask and Ray without any rewrites.

Splink

A free Python library for fast, accurate data deduplication and record linkage.

Simple-data-analysis

Easy-to-use and high-performance JavaScript library for data analysis.

duckdb_fdw

DuckDB Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL.

@jetblack/duckdb-react

A context manager for React and DuckDB-Wasm.

QuackOSM

A Python library for downloading and transforming raw OpenStreetMap data into GeoParquet files.

PyGWalker

A Python library that turns your dataframe into an interactive UI for data visualization.

flapi

An API Framework that heavily relies on the power of DuckDB and DuckDB extensions. Ready to build performant and cost-efficient APIs on top of BigQuery or Snowflake for AI Agents and Data Apps.

smallpond

A distributed data processing framework by DeepSeek built on DuckDB and 3FS.

BemiDB

PostgreSQL read replica optimized for analytics, using DuckDB.

jsqltranspiler

Rewrite BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake and Databricks queries into DuckDB-compatible SQL.

SQLRooms

An open-source react framework for single-node data analytics powered by DuckDB.

Omilayers

A Python library for efficient data management that wraps the APIs of SQLite and DuckDB and offers a high-level interface analytical tasks that involve fast storage, processing and retrieval of data.

Unleasharp.DB.DuckDB

Lightweight DuckDB query-building client for C#.

Snowflake Emulator

A lightweight Snowflake emulator built with Go and DuckDB for local development and testing.

DuckDB.EFCoreProvider

Entity Framework Core provider for DuckDB and DuckLake, with LINQ, writes, migrations, bulk ingestion, and Parquet-backed tiered storage for .NET.

Vane

A multimodal-native engine for AI workloads, built on a DuckDB fork with Python and SQL interfaces.

Online DuckDB Shell

Online DuckDB shell powered by DuckDB-Wasm.

SQL Workbench

DuckDB-Wasm based SQL Workbench for running queries on local or remote data, being able to show data as tables or visually as graphs, and sharing queries via URLs.

DuckDB Terminal

Online DuckDB shell powered by DuckDB WASM and Ghostty.

SQL Workbench Embedded

A lightweight JavaScript library that turns SQL code blocks into interactive, browser-based database environments. Powered by DuckDB WASM.

Sekuel Playground

Query your local Parquet, CSV, JSON. Your data will not be sent out of the device you are using.

Codapi

Embed executable code snippets directly into your product documentation, online course or blog post.

QuackDB

Open-source in-browser DuckDB SQL playground and editor.

Sidequery

Sidequery is a privacy-preserving DuckDB-powered query editor & data exploration tool for local & remote data.

Duck-UI

Duck-UI is a web-based interface for interacting with DuckDB with a SQL editor, data import/export, data explorer, query history, theme toggle and keyboard shortcuts.

SQLRooms

An open-source react framework for single-node data analytics powered by DuckDB.

PondPilot

Open-source, 100% client-side data exploration tool that enables users to analyze local and remote data using SQL. Zero-copy direct access to local datasets sets PondPilot apart from similar tools. It runs entirely in the browser—no servers, no cloud uploads, and no setup required.

Preswald

WASM packager for Python-based interactive data apps.

Medama

Self-hostable, privacy-focused website analytics.

dbxlite

DuckDB workbench for native & browser.

Joinery

Privacy-first local data analytics with a modern SQL editor, multi-format support (CSV, Excel, JSON, Parquet), and parameterized saved queries. Available as browser app and Tauri desktop client.

DuckQuery

Open-source visual SQL workbench to query local files (CSV/Excel/Parquet/JSON) and remote databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) in one cross-source JOIN, plus AI text-to-SQL. Browser demo runs on DuckDB-Wasm; the full version self-hosts via Docker.

csvtodashboard

Free SQL-on-CSV in the browser via DuckDB-Wasm — no signup, no upload, files stay on-device.

ParquetKit

Browser-based Parquet viewer, SQL workbench and converter powered by DuckDB-Wasm. Fully client-side — files never leave your device.

Bedevere

Tabular data visualizer and DuckDB SQL editor on DuckDB-Wasm: open CSV/Parquet/JSON/Arrow locally, chart results with a grammar-of-graphics VISUALIZE syntax, and embed it anywhere via npm component or a one-line iframe.

Telemetry SQL Playground

Browser-based, read-only SQL playground powered by DuckDB-Wasm, with synthetic structured-event datasets.

ExploreMyData

Browser-based data explorer on DuckDB-Wasm: open CSV, Excel, JSON, Parquet, Arrow, Avro, SQLite and DuckDB files up to 1GB, chain filter/join/pivot/aggregate steps that each emit DuckDB SQL, write SQL directly, chart, and export. Files never leave the device.

DBConvert Parquet Viewer

Browser-based Parquet viewer on DuckDB-Wasm. Reads the schema, row groups, compression codecs and column statistics, runs read-only SQL over the file and exports results as CSV. A JSONL/NDJSON viewer uses the same engine. Files are opened through a browser file handle and are not uploaded.

Parquetly

Browser-based Parquet viewer on DuckDB-Wasm. Shows the schema, row groups and column chunk statistics, runs SQL over the file, and exports to CSV or JSON. Files are read locally and are not uploaded.

Harlequin

The DuckDB IDE (TUI) for your terminal.

qStudio

A free SQL tool specialized for data analysts. It runs on every operating system and allows easy browsing of tables and charting of results.

DuckDB SQL Tools

Free DuckDB SQL Tools for VS Code IDE. Premium version available with advanced features.

VSCode SQLTools

Free open-source VSCode extension to query and explore your DuckDB databases with latest DuckDB support.

DBeaver

DBeaver is a universal database access and development tool that can be used to connect almost any type of database.

DataGrip

Paid SQL IDE by JetBrains that supports many different database technologies, including DuckDB.

Duckling

A fast viewer for CSV/Parquet files and DuckDB/SQLite, based on Tauri.

rsql

CLI for DuckDB, LibSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite3 and SQL Server.

SQL DATA LENS

A lightweight, commercial SQL IDE that supports different DBMS, including DuckDB. The focus is on performance and special DBMS features.

Dataflare

Simple easy-to-use database manager, supports DuckDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite etc.

rainfrog

A database TUI with experimental support for DuckDB.

marimo

Unified data & AI platform that lets you work with SQL and Python with native support for DuckDB.

jupysql

Run SQL in Jupyter/IPython via a %sql and %%sql magics, with support for DuckDB.

magic_duckdb

DuckDB native %dql and %%dql magics for Jupyter/IPython.

AmoxSQL

The Modern Codex for Local Data Analysis. A high-performance, local-first IDE built specifically for DuckDB.

tuitab

A Rust TUI for fast, in-depth analytics on large datasets (CSV, JSON, Parquet, Excel, SQLite) powered by DuckDB.

Tad

A fast, free, cross-platform tabular data viewer application powered by DuckDB.

Mongrel

Paid desktop database workbench with DuckDB support, including isolated transactions, transactional migrations, physical backups, and remote import from Parquet and CSV.

DuckDB Lens

Read-only DuckDB database file viewer for JetBrains IDEs: schema tree, paged tables of any size, constant memory. Sibling Lens viewers cover SQLite, Parquet, Excel and Jupyter files.

1bench

Paid cross-platform desktop client supporting DuckDB alongside two dozen other databases, including relational, document, key-value, vector and search engines.

LibreDB Studio

Browser-based SQL IDE that opens DuckDB database files alongside PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse and other engines, with a schema explorer and JSON EXPLAIN plans. MIT licensed, runs as a container or Helm chart.

Beekeeper Studio

Free, open-source SQL editor and database manager with native support for DuckDB, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more.

NBA Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo simulation of the NBA season, leveraging Meltano, dbt, DuckDB and Evidence.

Datadex

Open-source and local-friendly data platform to collaborate on Open Data using DuckDB, Dagster, dbt, and Quarto.

endoflife.date database

Daily dumps of endoflife.date data.

transfermarkt-datasets

Curated football datasets from Transfermarkt.

duckdb-embedding-search

A search engine for DuckDB that uses embedding vectors to find similar documents.

DuckDB PyPI stats live dashboard

Live dashboard of PyPI downloads using DuckDB, dbt, Evidence and MotherDuck with code source to build your own.

PyStack't

Python package that supports data preparation for object-centric process mining.

Georgia State University Book Prices

DuckDB powered WASM app where you can search how much students spend on books at Georgia State University.

duckdb-claude-slack

A Slack data analysis agent powered by DuckDB and Claude Code.

Ducklings

A minimal DuckDB WASM build for browsers and serverless environments like Cloudflare Workers.

msgvault

Archive a lifetime of email and chat. Offline search, analytics, and AI query over your full message history. Powered by DuckDB.

datagenerator2

Generates random data, allowing to define dependencies between individual fields and varying/definable distribution of field values.

Overture Places UA

Extract all Ukrainian POIs from Overture Maps releases into CSV or Parquet with a single DuckDB query.

dlt-dbt-duckdb-evidence

End-to-end pipeline over seven public data sources in a single DuckDB file, using dlt, dbt, Polars, Dagster and Evidence. Rebuilds from live sources on every push and publishes the DuckDB file and per-table Parquet monthly.

Caso Abierto

Detective game where each case file is a set of Parquet tables queried with SQL, running DuckDB-WASM in the browser.

SixSentences

Self-hostable research workspace that compiles boolean literature-search queries to SQL and runs them offline with DuckDB over versioned Parquet snapshots of a scholarly corpus.

GTFS Scorecard

Data-quality grades for 2,400+ public transit (GTFS) feed records. DuckDB builds the cross-agency query layer and a public Parquet table that DuckDB can query over HTTP, and the site's SQL page runs DuckDB-WASM in the browser.

PH Catalog

Resumable local Product Hunt catalogue and analytics pipeline that normalizes records into DuckDB and exports verified Parquet snapshots.

dbt-duckdb

DuckDB dbt adapter.

data load tool - DuckDB destination

Extract and load data from APIs to DuckDB using dlt.

target-duckdb

Load data to DuckDB based on Singer spec.

Airbyte DuckDB destination

Load data to DuckDB with Airbyte.

Kestra DuckDB plugin

Run queries with DuckDB to schedule data transformations and process automations and run event-driven anomaly detection pipelines.

SQLFlow

Enables SQL-based stream processing, powered by DuckDB.

nf-sqldb

This plugin provides support for interacting with SQL databases in Nextflow scripts.

MindsDB

The platform for customizing AI from enterprise data. MindsDB integrates with DuckDB, making data from DuckDB accessible to a diverse range of AI/ML models.

sqlite2duckdb

A CLI tool to convert SQLite database to DuckDB.

nodbi

NoSQL Database Connector for R, providing a common API across Elasticsearch, CouchDB, MongoDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and DuckDB.

duckplyr

Drop-in replacement for dplyr in R that uses DuckDB for performance.

kwack

In-Memory Analytics for Kafka using DuckDB.

PowerShell

duckdb-tableau-connector

DuckDB Tableau connector.

duckdb-power-query-connector

DuckDB Power Query Custom Connector.

metabase_duckdb_driver

Metabase DuckDB Driver shipped as 3rd party plugin.

xlDuckDb

Excel addin to run DuckDB queries in Excel.

Hasura DuckDB Connector

Allows connecting to a DuckDB database or a MotherDuck-hosted DuckDB database through a GraphQL API.

Ontop

Allows to create Virtual Knowledge Graphs directly from DuckDB.

jOOQ

Type safe querying of DuckDB (and many other RDBMS) from Java. A transpiler from and to DuckDB is also available.

manifold-sql (DuckDB for Java)

Use native DuckDB SQL of any complexity directly & type-safely in Java source with comprehensive IntelliJ support.

The Quack is Back: SAS/ACCESS Meets DuckDB

SAS/ACCESS engine support for DuckDB.

duckdb-teradata

Teradata connector.

Kotlin DataFrame

Supports reading from DuckDB databases using JDBC.

Sidemantic

A semantic layer with DuckDB integration.

Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog connector

Connect to Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog with DuckDB.

Enrich.sh

Lightweight event ingestion that stores JSON events as Parquet in R2, queryable directly from DuckDB.

DuckDB VBA

Excel/VBA integration for DuckDB using the native C API through a lightweight DLL bridge. Supports Range/Array ingestion, dictionary lookups, Parquet/CSV/JSON workflows, SQLite/PostgreSQL connectivity, and Access-to-DuckDB migration.

OrionBelt Semantic Layer

Open-source semantic sidecar that compiles YAML semantic models to optimized SQL across 8 engines including DuckDB. Ships with an ob-duckdb driver, REST + Arrow Flight SQL + Postgres wire surfaces, and a baked-in DuckDB quickstart on Colab.

DuckDBExcelAddin

Native Excel XLL add-in for DuckDB with parameter binding, async execution and Excel range table functions.

Bruin

Data pipeline CLI that runs SQL and Python transformations with built-in quality checks, using DuckDB as one of its supported platforms.

ingestr

CLI tool to copy data between databases and SaaS sources, with DuckDB supported as both a source and a destination.

omniload

Polyglot data loader for ETL, warehousing and more, based on dlt. Supports 140+ source/destination adapters. Derived from ingestr v0 (MIT).

Scherlok

Data quality monitoring CLI that profiles tables and detects anomalies (volume, freshness, schema drift, NULL rates, distributions) without configuration; DuckDB is one of its connectors and backs its built-in demo.

Crunchy Data Warehouse

Fully managed DBaaS based in PostgreSQL integrated with DuckDB.

MotherDuck

A serverless cloud data warehouse powered by DuckDB.

MyDuck Server

A server wrapping DuckDB with MySQL and PostgreSQL wire protocol support.

pg_analytics

PostgreSQL extension embedding DuckDB-in-PostgreSQL for fast on-disk and remote object storage analytics from Postgres. Built as a Foreign Data Wrapper with full query pushdown to DuckDB. Integrates easily with ParadeDB.

pg_duckdb

DuckDB-powered PostgreSQL for high-performance apps & analytics.

pg_mooncake

A PostgreSQL extension that adds native column store tables with DuckDB.

GizmoSQL - Arrow Flight SQL Server

A C++ implementation of the Arrow Flight SQL protocol that runs in a client-server setup with DuckDB or SQLite as backends.

Porter

A Go-based implementation of a DuckDB Arrow Flight SQL Server.

Termux DuckDB package

DuckDB CLI client for the Termux Android terminal emulator.

pg_lake

pg_lake integrates Iceberg and data lake files into Postgres. Uses DuckDB to execute queries.

AliSQL

A MySQL branch originated from Alibaba Group. Integrates DuckDB as a native storage engine.

rawquery

Managed analytical platform pairing DuckDB compute with Iceberg storage on S3. Postgres wire protocol, CLI, and Python API.

Layerbase

Managed DuckDB hosting with a browser query console, REST API and CLI, alongside 17 other database engines under one account. Databases scale to zero when idle and wake on connect.

VillageSQL

Aggregate Parquet, CSV and JSON in object storage from SQL, with DuckDB embedded in MySQL.

arrow

A zero-copy data integration between Apache Arrow and DuckDB.

avro

For reading Avro files.

aws

For handling AWS credentials.

azure

For using the Azure Blob storage.

delta

For Delta Lake support.

ducklake

For DuckLake support.

fts

To support full-text search.

iceberg

For reading Iceberg tables.

inet

For storing and handling IPv4 and IPv6 Internet addresses.

json

For reading and writing JSON data.

mysql

To read from and write to MySQL databases.

parquet

For reading and writing Parquet data.

postgres

To read from and write to PostgreSQL databases.

spatial

Enables geospatial processing.

sqlite

To read from and write to SQLite databases.

vss

Add support for vector similarity search.

3fs

Integrates DuckDB with DeepSeek 3FS distributed file system.

acp

Embeds AI agents such as Claude Code inside of DuckDB via Agent Client Protocol.

bigquery

Integrates DuckDB with Google BigQuery, allowing direct querying and management of BigQuery datasets.

cache_httpfs

Adds a read caching layer to duckdb filesystem to improve query performance and reduce egress cost.

cache_prewarm

A Preloads table data blocks into the buffer pool or OS page cache, inspired by PostgreSQL's pg_prewarm extension.

chsql

ClickHouse SQL Dialect macros for DuckDB.

crypto

Cryptographic hash functions and HMAC.

curl_httpfs

Enhanced HTTP file system with connection pooling, HTTP/2 support, and asynchronous I/O operations.

dash

Fully local data canvas and dashboarding app within DuckDB.

duckherder

Distributed execution for DuckDB queries.

duckpgq

Add supports for SQL/PGQ (Property Graph Queries) introduced in the SQL:2023 standard.

elasticsearch

Query Elasticsearch indices directly using SQL.

evalexpr_rhai

Evaluates the Rhai scripting language as part of SQL.

fuzzycomplete

Performs fuzzy string matching for autocompletion.

gaggle

A DuckDB extension for working with Kaggle datasets.

gpudb

GPU-accelerated plain DuckDB SQL on Apple Silicon Metal and NVIDIA CUDA: GROUP BY, joins, filters and top-k run on the GPU when measured faster, with the same answers.

gsheets

Read and write Google Sheets using SQL.

h3

Adds support for the H3 discrete global grid system.

hostfs

Navigate and explore the local filesystem using SQL.

httpserver

DuckDB HTTP API Server and Query Interface.

infera

A DuckDB extension for in-database inference.

lindel

Linearization/Delinearization, Z-Order, Hilbert and Morton Curves.

netquack

Parsing, extracting, and analyzing domains, URIs, and paths with ease.

observefs

I/O observability for DuckDB filesystems with latency statistics and external file cache access insights.

onager

A DuckDB extension for graph data analytics.

pfc

Read block-indexed PFC-compressed JSONL logs with timestamp filtering — 25% smaller than gzip with minimal S3 egress.

prql

Run PRQL commands directly within DuckDB.

pst

Read Microsoft PST files in-place with rich schemas for emails, contacts, appointments, tasks, and more.

query_condition_cache

Caches query conditions to improve performance for repeated-query workloads.

scrooge

A set of aggregation functions and data scanners on financial data.

shellfs

Allows shell commands to be used for input and output.

stats_duck

Statistics for tabular and clinical data: descriptive tables (table_one), linear models with robust/clustered standard errors, meta-analysis, bootstrap, and a grammar-of-graphics VISUALIZE clause that turns queries into Vega-Lite charts.

ulid

ULID data type for DuckDB. A ULID is similar to a UUID except that it also contains a timestamp component.

yardstick

Implements Measures in SQL paper as a DuckDB extension for centralized metric definitions / en embedded semantic layer.

duckdb_engine

SQLAlchemy driver for DuckDB.

duckdb-extension-template-zig

A Zig & Nix toolkit template for building extensions against multiple versions of DuckDB using Zig, C or C++.

duckdb-jfr-extension

DuckDB extension to read JFR (Java Flight Recorder) files directly.

duckdb_protobuf

Plugin for querying encoded protobuf messages (both sequences and individual messages per file).

duckdb-pytables

DuckDB extension to allow running SQL on arbitrary data sources.

ERPL

DuckDB SAP connector using RFC, ODP, or BICS.

Kùzu

Scan DuckDB tables in Kùzu, an embeddable property graph database management system.

Lance

Integrate Lance (modern columnar data format for ML implemented in Rust) with DuckDB.

ODBC Scanner DuckDB Extension

DuckDB extension to read data directly from databases supporting the ODBC interface.

QDuckDB

Plugin for reading DuckDB spatial tables in QGIS software.

UC Catalog Extension

Proof-of-concept extension combining the delta extension with Unity Catalog.

FlockMTL

Integrate language model (LLM) capabilities directly into your queries and workflows.

ERPL Web

ERPL Web is a DuckDB extension that connects API-based ecosystems via standard interfaces like OData, GraphQL, and REST.

quack-zig

The infamous DuckDB quack extension rewritten in C and built with Zig. Proof that you can develop DuckDB extensions without drowning in boilerplate.

DuckDB.ExtensionKit

Build native DuckDB extensions in C#.

template-duckdb-extension-zig

A template for developing DuckDB extensions in Zig using DuckDB's C API.

go-duckfs

A Go library that mounts io/fs file systems as DuckDB virtual file systems, sandboxing all I/O through the Go runtime.

DuckDB Extension Radar

Repository that contains DuckDB extensions on GitHub. Refreshed daily.

DBQuacks

An interactive SQL tutorial powered by DuckDB.

GeoSQL

Interactive spatial SQL problems powered by DuckDB-WASM, running entirely in the browser.

DuckLake - The SQL-Powered Lakehouse Format for the Rest of Us

Hannes Mühleisen.

Introducing DuckLake

Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt.

DuckCon #6 playlist

DuckDB: Crunching data anywhere from laptops to servers @ GOTO Amsterdam 2024

Gábor Szárnyas.

DuckDB – Overview and latest developments @ DuckCon #5

Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt.

DuckCon #5 playlist

DuckCon #4 playlist

DuckCon #3 playlist

In-Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB @ PyData Amsterdam

Hannes Mühleisen.

DuckDB: The Power of a Data Warehouse in your Python Process @ PyData Yerevan

Gábor Szárnyas.

DuckDB: Bringing analytical SQL directly to your Python shell @ EuroPython

Pedro Holanda.

DuckDB keynote @ Data + AI Summit 2023

Hannes Mühleisen.

DuckDB: Bringing Analytical SQL Directly To Your Python Shell @ FOSDEM

Pedro Holanda.

State of the Duck @ DuckCon #2

Hannes Mühleisen & Mark Raasveldt.

DuckDB Extensions @ DuckCon

Pedro Holanda & Sam Ansmink.

Developing Systems in Academia: The Good, the Bad, and the not-so-Ugly Duckling @ CIDR

Hannes Mühleisen.

DuckDB An Embeddable Analytical Database @ FOSDEM

Hannes Mühleisen.

DuckDB tutorials playlist by Learn Data with Mark

Mark Needham.

DuckDB tutorials playlist by MotherDuck

Mehdi Ouazza.

Nextflow and database uses: powering data engineering, exploring DuckDB, and beyond

Edmund Miller.

Why should you care about DuckDB? @ Dublin DuckDB meetup

Mihai Bojin.

Exploring Monte Carlo Simulations With DuckDB @ Dublin DuckDB meetup

James McNeill.

DuckDB and recommenders: A lightning fast synergy @ Dublin DuckDB meetup

Khalil Muhammad.

Developer Voices: Implementing Hardware-Friendly Databases

Hannes Mühleisen.

The Geek Narrator: DuckDB Internals

Mark Raasveldt.

Software Engineering Daily: DuckDB

Hannes Mühleisen.

Data Engineering Podcast: Move Your Database To The Data And Speed Up Your Analytics With DuckDB

Hannes Mühleisen.

The Analytics Engineering Podcast: The Personal Data Warehouse

Jordan Tigani.

DuckDB in Research

Series in Disseminate, the Computer Science Research Podcast, with host Jack Waudby.

Duck Takes Flight: Streaming Data in DuckDB

Adding concurrent read/write to DuckDB with Arrow Flight.

Modern Data Stack in a Box

Fast, free, and open-source Modern Data Stack deployed on a laptop using the combination of DuckDB, Meltano, dbt, and Apache Superset.

How to use DuckDB, Motherduck and Kestra for ETL

How DuckDB can transform data, mask sensitive PII information, detect anomalies in event-driven workflows, and streamline reporting use cases.

DuckDB vs. MotherDuck — how do they compare

What are the key differences between them, and when to choose each of these options.

Building DuckDB Extensions with Zig and Nix

For Nix users and Zig developers familiar with DuckDB looking to extend its capabilities with custom extensions.

Exploring StarCraft 2 data with Airflow, DuckDB and Streamlit

Example project using DuckDB to persist API data, but also explains how to use DuckDB as a versatile data manipulation tool in data wrangling scripts.

DuckDB: The Rising Star in the Big Data Landscape

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data To Be a Database

How DuckDB can provide a view over data stored in S3.

Securing DuckDB, Improving Startup Time, and Working Offline

How to set up DuckDB and how to work with extensions in an offline (and potentially sensitive) environment.

Datalore 2025.2 Is Out With Report Tabs, Extended DuckDB Support, and Snowflake Key Pair Authentication

Improved DuckDB support in JetBrains' Datalore collaborative data science platform

Using DuckDB WASM + Cloudflare R2 to host and query big data (for almost free)

Demo of using Cloudflare R2 hosting and a WASM DuckDB application to store and query data

SwanLake

An Arrow Flight SQL Datalake Service Built on DuckDB + DuckLake

DuckDB-Wasm on a Plain Static Host — Without Breaking AdSense

Why a static site ships the single-threaded build: SharedArrayBuffer, COOP/COEP, and the cross-origin isolation tradeoff.

Building duckdb-pst

How to go from 0 to a production-ready DuckDB extension for Outlook PSTs, including table functions, MAPI schema serialization, projection/statistics pushdown, concurrent planning, and late materialization.

DuckDB in Action

DuckDB in Action will show you how to quickly get your hands dirty with DuckDB.

Getting Started with DuckDB

A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows.

Local-First Analytics

Building an analytics stack on one machine with DuckDB, Parquet and Arrow: performance, partitioning, data quality and orchestration, with runnable code. Chapter one is free to read online.