MotherDuck — Serverless DuckDB in the Cloud

Overview

MotherDuck, the serverless analytics platform built on DuckDB that combines local and cloud query execution. Helps developers run SQL analytics on cloud-hosted data, share datasets, and build hybrid local-cloud data pipelines using DuckDB's familiar interface.

Instructions

Connection and Setup

# Connect to MotherDuck from Python
import duckdb

# Authenticate (opens browser for first-time auth)
conn = duckdb.connect("md:")