Command-line tool

duckdb

brew/duckdb

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Embeddable SQL OLAP Database Management System

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

scoop install duckdb

macOS

brew install duckdb

Linux

brew install duckdb

Start an interactive shell with a transient in-memory database

duckdb

Start an interactive shell on a database file. If the file does not exist, a new database is created

duckdb path/to/dbfile

Query a CSV, JSON, or Parquet file using SQL

duckdb -c "SELECT * FROM 'data_source.ext'"

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