Serverless DuckDB
Run DuckDB SQL analytics in a serverless cloud data warehouse. Dual execution runs query stages on your laptop, in the cloud, or across both, and zero-copy shares let teammates query the same data.
Serverless Data Warehouse Built on DuckDB
Analytics infrastructure for data teams, app developers & AI agents.
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For App Devs
Ship customer-facing analytics with a serverless DuckDB database. Use per-customer compute, Postgres compatibility, and embedded Dives to make your application fly!
For Data Teams
Run DuckDB in the cloud for fast, efficient analytics. Ingest and transfrom your data with Flights, give context to agents with Guides, and build visuals with Dives. Source controlled end-to-end.
What Makes MotherDuck Unique?
The Old World
Bin-packed, high latency workloadsAnalytics are too cumbersome
With all your users in one big, shared box, they’re constantly competing for resources and compute, making load times unbearable...why are we doing this?
Scaling is resource-intensive
With a traditional DWH, power users run into latency issues as processing scales. Deciding which users to bin-pack and which to isolate on their own instance is cumbersome and sloooooooow.
No visibility of user-level usage
It’s impossible to understand who is driving the lion’s share of usage and how to prevent your database and the applications built on top from grinding to a halt. The struggle is real - but there’s finally a better way.
The MotherDuck World
Data warehouse without the overheadSimple, straightforward analytics
MotherDuck is the first analytics data warehouse that offers cloud scale and individualized, user-level tenancy. Managing user-level compute limits and cost attribution without cumbersome upfront configuration hasn’t been possible until now.
The first truly personal data warehouse
Each user automatically gets their own compute instance “duckling” so end users can move quickly and freely from question to insight. Best of all: No more waiting around for queries to process because someone else is using too much compute!
User-level CPU Visibility by design
Built-in user-level CPU visibility ensures a consistent, smooth experience for all your users. Cost attribution at the user-level helps you predict and proactively optimize costs without additional overhead - say goodbye to surprise bills when usage scales up.
THE AI NATIVE CLOUD DATABASE
Architecture
Managed DuckDB-in-the-cloud
Features
MCP for AI agents
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible agent to MotherDuck. Natural-language questions come back as accurate, traceable SQL, running in sandboxed compute.
Share business context
Guides give AI agents shared business context on every query, so natural-language answers stay accurate for the people who know the business.
Live data visualizations
Dives are live, interactive visualizations built by an AI agent or with SQL — filter and drill down on live data, share them, or embed them in your app.
Scheduled data pipelines
Flights are scheduled Python data pipelines that run inside MotherDuck. Describe a source and your agent writes, deploys, and schedules the ingestion job.
Isolated compute
Hypertenancy gives each user, customer, or AI agent an isolated DuckDB instance — high concurrency with no shared clusters or noisy neighbors, plus up to 16 read-scaling replicas.
Ecosystem
Modern Duck Stack
CLOUD DATA WAREHOUSE
Sources
AI Agents
Ingestion
Business Intelligence
Reverse ETL
Transformation
Data Science & AI
Case Studies
FAQS
Hypertenancy gives each user, customer, or AI agent an isolated DuckDB instance called a Duckling, so workloads do not compete for shared compute.
The MotherDuck MCP Server lets AI agents inspect catalogs and run SQL, read Guides, create Dives, and manage Flights.
MotherDuck shares databases through read-only share objects. A provider creates a zero-copy share, and consumers attach it to their workspace and query it without exporting files or making a second copy.
Yes, MotherDuck can query data stored in S3 and other S3-compatible object storage. See our authentication and querying guides.
You can connect with DuckDB clients such as Golang and Python, or use the MotherDuck UI and other supported interfaces. See our connection guides.
MotherDuck supports BI and data visualization tools such as Omni, Hex, Tableau, and Power BI. See the MotherDuck ecosystem for more integrations.
dbt users can take advantage of the DuckDB dbt adapter, which works with MotherDuck. See our dbt guide.
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