Welcome to MotherDuck Docs

MotherDuck is a managed DuckDB-in-the-cloud service. DuckDB is a fully featured, 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 Beta 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.

🦆 With the current release of MotherDuck Beta you can:

• Load data into MotherDuck from your personal computer, https, or s3
• Join datasets on your computer with datasets on MotherDuck
• Leverage MotherDuck Beta using our three primary interfaces: the UI, standard DuckDB CLI, or standard DuckDB Python package
• Check out our other integrations (Golang, R, etc.), or use any existing DuckDB integration and connect through "md:".
• Share databases with your teammates

Questions ? Join the pond on our slack community!

Getting started

📝 Signing up

🔥 Tutorial

🗺️ MotherDuck UI quick tour

💻 Using DuckDB CLI

🐍 Using Python

caution

At this point in time, MotherDuck supports only one version of DuckDB: v0.9.2