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DuckDB recently launched a Community Extensions repository. For details, see the announcement blog post.
User Experience
We are going to use the h3
extension as our example.
This extension implements hierarchical hexagonal indexing for geospatial data.
Using the DuckDB Community Extensions repository, you can install and load the h3
extension as follows:
INSTALL h3 FROM community;
LOAD h3;
Then, you can instantly start using it. Note that the sample data is 500 MB:
SELECT
h3_latlng_to_cell(pickup_latitude, pickup_longitude, 9) AS cell_id,
h3_cell_to_boundary_wkt(cell_id) AS boundary,
count() AS cnt
FROM read_parquet('https://blobs.duckdb.org/data/yellow_tripdata_2010-01.parquet')
GROUP BY cell_id
HAVING cnt > 10;
On load, the extension’s signature is checked, both to ensure platform and versions are compatible, and to verify that the source of the binary is the community extensions repository. Extensions are built, signed and distributed for Linux, macOS, Windows, and WebAssembly. This allows extensions to be available to any DuckDB client using version 1.0.0 and upcoming versions.
The h3
extension’s documentation is available at https://community-extensions.duckdb.org/extensions/h3.html.
Developer Experience
From the developer’s perspective, the Community Extensions repository performs the steps required for publishing extensions, including building the extensions for all relevant platforms, signing the extension binaries and serving them from the repository.
For the maintainer of h3
, the publication process required performing the following steps:
-
Sending a PR with a metadata file
description.yml
contains the description of the extension:extension: name: h3 description: Hierarchical hexagonal indexing for geospatial data version: 1.0.0 language: C++ build: cmake license: Apache-2.0 maintainers: - isaacbrodsky repo: github: isaacbrodsky/h3-duckdb ref: 3c8a5358e42ab8d11e0253c70f7cc7d37781b2ef
-
The CI will build and test the extension. The checks performed by the CI are aligned with the
extension-template
repository, so iterations can be done independently. -
Wait for approval from the DuckDB Community Extension repository’s maintainers and for the build process to complete.
Security Considerations
See the Securing Extensions page for details.
List of Community Extensions
See the DuckDB Community Extensions repository site.