The DuckDB Local UI
Published on: 2025-06-21 03:56:01
The DuckDB Local UI
Jeff Raymakers and Gabor Szarnyas Published on
TL;DR: The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a built-in local UI for DuckDB.
The DuckDB project was built to make it simple to leverage modern database technology. DuckDB can be used from many popular languages and runs on a wide variety of platforms. The included Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a convenient way to interactively run SQL queries from a terminal window, and several third-party tools offer more sophisticated UIs.
The DuckDB CLI provides advanced features like interactive multi-line editing, auto-complete, and progress indicators. However, it can be cumbersome for working with lengthy SQL queries, and its data exploration tools are limited. Many of the available third party UIs are great, but selecting, installing, and configuring one is not straightforward. Using DuckDB through a UI should be as simple as using the CLI. And now it is!
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