Welcome to MotherDuck!

Quick start

• 📝 Sign up for a free account
• 👇 Read this MotherDuck overview (you're here!)
• 🧭 Take a tour of the MotherDuck UI
• 🚀 Complete the MotherDuck tutorial
• 📈 Learn how to connect and query from BI and Visualization Tools
• 🖥️ Learn how to connect and query from the DuckDB CLI
• 📦 Learn how to connect and query from the Python DuckDB package

Questions? Join the pond on our slack community!

MotherDuck overview

MotherDuck is a cloud data warehouse and SQL analytics backend for building data apps.

MotherDuck is powered by DuckDB, a free and open source in-process OLAP database developed and maintained by the DuckDB community and DuckDB Labs. MotherDuck is a separate organization closely partnering with DuckDB Labs to build a DuckDB-based cloud analytics service.

As a DuckDB user, you can connect to MotherDuck to supercharge your local DuckDB experience with cloud-based manageability, persistence, scale, sharing, and productivity tools. MotherDuck runs on vanilla DuckDB, so you can use your existing DuckDB skills and tools to connect to MotherDuck.

• Use serverless DuckDB in the cloud to store data and execute DuckDB SQL
• Load data into MotherDuck from your personal computer, https, or cloud storage (e.g. Amazon S3 or Azure Cloud Storage)
• Securely save cloud storage credentials in MotherDuck
• Share databases with your teammates
• Check out our other integrations (Golang, R, etc.), or use any existing DuckDB integration and connect through "md:".
• Currently supports DuckDB v0.9.2