ShellDuck: How To Access DuckDB In Your Browser

Ready to practice DuckDB queries? Use the Shell version of DuckDB to develop your SQL skills

Over the years, analytics and data models became more accessible, accelerated by analyst adoption of more powerful computers and integrations with languages like Python and R programming. A flood of databases and storage choices have emerged to enhance data exploration more freely. One of the more intriguing has been DuckDB.

DuckDB is a free, open-source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) designed for embedded use. It supports a Structured Query Language (SQL) framework with simple querying syntax and imports a variety of data types, including Parquet files. API clients are available in several programming languages, including JavaScript, Python, and R programming.

If you are discovering DuckDB, you may be interested in learning how to work with DuckDB syntax outside of a programming language. If so, check out ShellDuck (or Duck DB Shell), a platform that operates DuckDB in the browser. This platform displays the database interface in the browser. So when you click on the link, you immediately see the DuckDB engine load the terminal. With each statement, Duck DB Shell executes the response in your browser.