Loading Data into MotherDuck

You can leverage MotherDuck’s managed storage to persist your data. MotherDuck storage provides a high level of manageability and abstraction, optimizing your data for secure, durable, performant, and efficient use. There are several ways to load data into MotherDuck storage.

📄️ From Your Local Machine

Moving data from local to MotherDuck through the UI or programmatically.

📄️ From Cloud Storage or over HTTPS

MotherDuck supports several cloud storage providers, including Azure, Google Cloud and Cloudflare R2.

📄️ Load a DuckDB database into MotherDuck

MotherDuck supports uploading local DuckDB databases in the cloud as referenced by the CREATE DATABASE statement.

📄️ From a PostgreSQL or MySQL Database

Learn to load a table from your PostgreSQL or MySQL database into MotherDuck.