DuckDB-Wasm: Fast Analytical Processing for the Web

André Kohn, Dominik Moritz, Mark Raasveldt, Hannes Mühleisen, Thomas Neumann
2022-09-05

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Venue: VLDB 2022

Abstract

We introduce DuckDB-Wasm, a WebAssembly version of the database system DuckDB, to provide fast analytical processing for the Web. DuckDB-Wasm evaluates SQL queries asynchronously in web workers, supports efficient user-defined functions written in JavaScript, and features a browser-agnostic filesystem that reads local and remote data in pages. DuckDB-Wasm outperforms previous data processing libraries for the Web in the TPC-H benchmark at multiple scale factors. We demonstrate the capabilities of an analytical database in the browser using an interactive SQL shell.