Everything about DuckDB

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: DuckDBA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: DuckDB in ActionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: DuckDB-wasmCited 17 times
4. Go sideways: List of SQL software and toolsA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Comparison of OLAP serversA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• DuckDB-wasm

  André Kohn, Dominik Moritz, Mark Raasveldt · 2022 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 17 citations

• DuckPGQ: Bringing SQL/PGQ to DuckDB

  Daniel ten Wolde, Gábor Szárnyas, Peter Boncz · 2023 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 10 citations

• Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB

  Anas Dorbani, Sunny Yasser, Jimmy Lin · 2025 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 10 citations

• ANALISIS PERBANDINGAN PERFORMA DATABASE DUCKDB DAN SQLITE PADA PENGOLAHAN BIG DATA

  Farid Arya Nugraha, Yerymia A. Susetyo · 2023 · JIPI (Jurnal Ilmiah Penelitian dan Pembelajaran Informatika) · 1 citations

• Natural Language Querying of DUCKDB using LLM

  · 2026 · Iconic Research and Engineering Journals · 0 citations

• Effect of point data distribution on spatial join performance: A comparison of GeoPandas and DuckDB Spatial

  Mustafa Hüsrevoğlu · 2026 · Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi · 0 citations

• ПРИМЕНЕНИЕ МЕТОДОВ ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНОГО АНАЛИЗА ДАННЫХ В ОБРАБОТКЕ ИНФОРМАЦИИ О СОТРУДНИКАХ С ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕМ DUCKDB И CHROMAD

  Х. Кутуку, Ш. Коданова, A. Кубашева · 2025 · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES · 0 citations

• Workload-Aware Evaluation of Thread Parallelism and Memory Configuration for Analytical Query Processing in DuckDB

  Yalmaz Najmaldeen Taher · 2026 · Indian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Studies · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕DuckDB in ActionMark Needham, Michael Hunger · 2024
• 📕Getting Started with DuckDBSimon Aubury, Ned Letcher · 2024
• 📕Mastering DuckDBRobert Johnson · 2025

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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