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S3 Parquet Import

Prerequisites

To load a Parquet file from S3, the httpfs extension is required. This can be installed using the INSTALL SQL command. This only needs to be run once.

INSTALL httpfs;

To load the httpfs extension for usage, use the LOAD SQL command:

LOAD httpfs;

Credentials and Configuration

After loading the httpfs extension, set up the credentials and S3 region to read data:

CREATE SECRET (
    TYPE S3,
    KEY_ID 'AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE',
    SECRET 'wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY',
    REGION 'us-east-1'
);

Tip If you get an IO Error (Connection error for HTTP HEAD), configure the endpoint explicitly via ENDPOINT 's3.⟨your-region⟩.amazonaws.com'.

Alternatively, use the aws extension to retrieve the credentials automatically:

CREATE SECRET (
    TYPE S3,
    PROVIDER CREDENTIAL_CHAIN
);

Querying

After the httpfs extension is set up and the S3 configuration is set correctly, Parquet files can be read from S3 using the following command:

SELECT * FROM read_parquet('s3://⟨bucket⟩/⟨file⟩');

Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and Cloudflare R2

DuckDB can also handle Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and Cloudflare R2 via the S3 API. See the relevant guides for details.

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