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🦆 A curated list of awesome DuckDB resources

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Awesome DuckDB Awesome

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

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

Contents

Resources

Tools Powered by DuckDB

  • 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.

Libraries Powered by DuckDB

  • Mosaic - An extensible framework for linking databases and interactive views.

Projects Powered by DuckDB

  • 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.

Integrations

Extensions

  • Official Extensions - Official DuckDB extensions.
    • arrow - A zero-copy data integration between Apache Arrow and DuckDB.
    • 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_iceberg - DuckDB extension for reading Iceberg tables.
  • 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.

Media

Talks

Podcasts

Blog Posts

  • 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.

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