Top 20 open-source tools built on DuckDB
Dashboards, pipelines, maps and query engines with DuckDB inside
Updated · GitHub stars (stars)
Why these 20
Ranked by GitHub stars: how many developers bookmarked the project. Stars measure attention, not quality, so each row also shows forks, licence, the last push and the section of the community list it sits in. Closed-source tools in the same list (Census, Mode, Hex, Definite, Cosmograph and others) have no public star count, so they can't be ranked here.
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Kepler.gl
Kepler.gl is a powerful open-source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets, now embeds duckdb wasm to create geospatial layers.
12,054 stars 1,959 forkslast push 2026-10-20TypeScriptMIT
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SQLGlot
Python transpiler that translates between 24 different SQL dialects including DuckDB.
9,698 stars 1,343 forkslast push 2026-10-19PythonMIT
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Enso Analytics
Dual visual/textual programming language and analytics platform, allowing DuckDB to be used as a data engine for its visual analytics and low-code...
7,443 stars 343 forkslast push 2026-08-10JavaApache-2.0
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Evidence
Generate reports using SQL and markdown. The DuckDB connector allows querying across DuckDB, CSV, Parquet and JSON. (Evidence Cloud)
7,037 stars 427 forkslast push 2026-10-16TypeScriptMIT
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Apple Embedding Atlas
A tool that provides interactive visualizations for large embeddings. Uses DuckDB.
4,988 stars 332 forkslast push 2026-10-15TypeScriptMIT
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Spice.ai
A unified SQL query interface and portable runtime to locally materialize (using an embedded DuckDB), accelerate, and query datasets from any database, data...
3,102 stars 237 forkslast push 2026-10-20RustApache-2.0
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Rill Data
Tool for effortlessly transforming data sets into powerful, opinionated dashboards using SQL. (Rill Cloud)
2,954 stars 203 forkslast push 2026-10-20GoApache-2.0
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Malloy
Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations. Malloy connects to BigQuery, Snowflake, Trino, and Postgres, and...
2,596 stars 138 forkslast push 2026-10-14TypeScriptNOASSERTION
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Amphi ETL
Low-code data pipelines for structured and unstructured data. SQL transformations are powered by DuckDB. (Elastic License 2.0, source-available)
1,409 stars 108 forkslast push 2026-08-24TypeScriptNOASSERTION
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Shaper
Open-source SQL-driven data dashboards, powering Taleshape, built on DuckDB. (managed hosting)
1,261 stars 50 forkslast push 2026-10-19GoMPL-2.0
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VulcanSQL
DuckDB can be used as a caching layer or a data connector in VulcanSQL, a Data API framework for data folks to create REST APIs by writing SQL templates.
793 stars 42 forkslast push 2024-07-01TypeScriptApache-2.0
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CNEquity
Self-hosted China A-share market data lake; DuckDB views over its Parquet datasets back SQL queries from the CLI and a read-only `run_sql` tool in its MCP...
738 stars 85 forkslast push 2026-10-18PythonApache-2.0
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Arc
Time-series data warehouse built on DuckDB. (commercial license)
684 stars 55 forkslast push 2026-10-19GoAGPL-3.0
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Huey
Blazing-fast & intuitive pivot tables on Parquet, CSV, JSON files and DuckDB tables in the browser based on DuckDB-Wasm. open-source (MIT). Zero install!
619 stars 34 forkslast push 2026-10-19JavaScriptMIT
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Tailpipe
An open-source SIEM for instant log insights. (commercial license)
581 stars 17 forkslast push 2026-09-25GoAGPL-3.0
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Sloggo
Minimal RFC 5424 syslog collector and viewer based on DuckDB. Runs as a single, resource-friendly process.
462 stars 19 forkslast push 2026-05-13TypeScriptMIT
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Phoenix Analytics
Plug and play analytics for Phoenix applications, powered by DuckDB.
457 stars 27 forkslast push 2026-10-05JavaScriptApache-2.0
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UniverSQL
An implementation of Snowflake API, enables running queries on Snowflake tables locally with DuckDB without a running warehouse.
207 stars 7 forkslast push 2025-10-20Jupyter NotebookApache-2.0
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DQOps
Data quality platform for data engineers, data quality teams and data operations. (Business Source License 1.1, source-available)
194 stars 38 forkslast push 2026-01-05JavaNOASSERTION
How it is measured
Every tool in the Tools Powered by DuckDB section(s) of the community list davidgasquez/awesome-duckdb on GitHub that has a public repository (linked directly, or its project's own repository when the list links the homepage), ranked by GitHub stars from the GitHub API; archived repositories are left out. Refreshed every 6 hours.
References
- davidgasquez/awesome-duckdb: Tools Powered by DuckDB, GitHub community list (list text CC0/MIT per repository; star counts from the GitHub API). Checked 2026-10-20 04:30 UTC.
- davidgasquez/awesome-duckdb (Tools Powered by DuckDB), GitHub community list, 41 tools with a public repository.
