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data wrangling tool

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Database anywhere

DuckDB is an analytical database system that you can deploy anywhere: from edge devices to servers with hundreds of cores.

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Friendly SQL

DuckDB has a friendly and expressive PostgreSQL-inspired query language.

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Extensible

Extensions can introduce functions and support for new formats.

Extensions
Native clients

DuckDB offers idiomatic and performant APIs for all major programming languages.

Clients
Speaks your formats

Read and write popular formats such as CSV, JSON, Parquet, and Iceberg – locally or in object storage.

Ecosystem
Free & open-source

DuckDB and related projects are MIT-licensed, governed by the independent DuckDB Foundation.

Foundation

More than a query engine

The Duck Stack includes a database,
a protocol, and offers first-class support
for lakehouse formats.

  • DuckDB
  • Quack
  • DuckLake
  • Iceberg

DuckDB

An analytical SQL database that can run in-process. Simple, fast, and portable. It is the stack builds on.

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Quack

The client-server protocol for DuckDB. With Quack, both your client and the server are full-fledged DuckDB instances, so you can access a remote database but also run computations on the client side.

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DuckLake

DuckLake is a lakehouse format built on SQL. Save your data in object storage and use a SQL database as a catalog for scalability, simplicity, and speed.

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Iceberg

DuckDB has first-class Apache Iceberg support: you can read and write Iceberg tables directly from DuckDB with high performance.

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Works with your stack

DuckDB integrates directly with languages, protocols and data formats.

Protocols & storage