Awesome DuckDB

A curated list of awesome DuckDB libraries, tools and resources.

DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database management system.

Resources

Official Documentation - Official DuckDB documentation.
- Official Blog - Official DuckDB blog.
- DuckDB Clients - Client APIs for DuckDB.
- DuckDB Documentation PDF - The DuckDB documentation as a single PDF file.
docker-duckdb - Docker image for DuckDB CLI.
DuckDB setup - GitHub Action to install DuckDB in CI.
Online DuckDB Shell - Online DuckDB shell powered by WebAssembly.
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 - Run DuckDB in AWS Lambda functions.
Compatible DuckDB Extensions for AWS Lambda - Extensions specifically compiled for the AWS Lambda runtime (GLIBC 2.26).
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.

Rill Developer - Tool for effortlessly transforming data sets into powerful, opinionated dashboards using SQL.
Ibis Project - The flexibility of Python analytics with the scale and performance of modern SQL.
MotherDuck - Supercharge DuckDB experience with the cloud.
Boiling Data - Serverless data analytics overlay on top of S3 Data Lakes.
Hex Dataframe SQL - Hex's Dataframe SQL cells are powered by DuckDB.
Mode - Mode uses DuckDB for their in-memory data engine.
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.
Tad - A fast, free, cross-platform tabular data viewer application powered by DuckDB.
Honeycomb Maps - A browser-based geospatial analysis tool leveraging DuckDB Wasm.
Bauplan - A serverless data transformation platform for data lakes.
Excalichart.com - A fast, free dashboard for exploring your data.
Malloy - Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations. Malloy connects to BigQuery and Postgres, and natively supports DuckDB.
Evidence - Generate reports using SQL and markdown. The DuckDB connector allows querying across DuckDB, csv, parquet and json.
SQL Playground - DuckDB-WASM based SQL playground for running queries on local or remote data, being able to show data as tables or visually as graphs.
Latitude - Latitude uses DuckDB to power data snapshots. Drop a CSV file and query it with SQL at the speed of light.

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.

Harlequin - The DuckDB IDE for your terminal. (GitHub).
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.

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.

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.
Arrow Flight SQL Server - An example implementation of the Arrow Flight SQL protocol what runs in a client-server setup with DuckDB or SQLite as backends.
SQLFlow: Enables SQL-based stream-processing, powered by DuckDB.

Official Extensions - Official DuckDB extensions.
- arrow - A zero-copy data integration between Apache Arrow and DuckDB.
- duckdb_iceberg - DuckDB extension for reading Iceberg tables.
- duckdb_aws - DuckDB extension for handling AWS credentials.
- duckdb_azure - DuckDB extension for using the Azure Blob storage.
- postgres_scanner - Allows DuckDB to directly read data from a running Postgres instance.
- spatial - Enables geospatial processing.
- sqlite_scanner - To read and write to SQLite databases.
DuckDB Extension Radar - Repository that contains DuckDB extensions on GitHub. Refreshed daily.
Deltatable - DuckDB extension for reading Delta tables.
Lance - Integrate Lance (modern columnar data format for ML implemented in Rust) with DuckDB.
PRQL - Run PRQL commands directly within DuckDB.
duckdb-engine - SQLAlchemy driver for DuckDB.
Scrooge-McDuck - DuckDB extension to support a set of aggregation functions and data scanners on financial data.
duckdb-pytables - DuckDB extension to allow running SQL on arbitrary data sources.
ODBC Scanner DuckDB Extension - DuckDB extension to read data directly from databases supporting the ODBC interface.
duckdb-jfr-extension - DuckDB extension to read JFR (Java Flight Recorder) files directly.
QDuckDB - Plugin for reading DuckDB spatial tables in QGIS software.

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

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