README
DuckDB
DuckDB is a high-performance analytical database system. It is designed to be fast, reliable, portable, and easy to use. DuckDB provides a rich SQL dialect with support far beyond basic SQL. DuckDB supports arbitrary and nested correlated subqueries, window functions, collations, complex types (arrays, structs, maps), and several extensions designed to make SQL easier to use.
DuckDB is available as a standalone CLI application and has clients for Python, R, Java, Wasm, etc., with deep integrations with packages such as pandas and dplyr.
For more information on using DuckDB, please refer to the DuckDB documentation.
Installation
If you want to install DuckDB, please see our installation page for instructions.
Data Import
For CSV files and Parquet files, data import is as simple as referencing the file in the FROM clause: