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DuckDB-Wasm: Fast Analytical Processing for the Web

Picture of André Kohn
André Kohn
Picture of Dominik Moritz
Dominik Moritz
Picture of Mark Raasveldt
Mark Raasveldt
Picture of Hannes Mühleisen
Hannes Mühleisen
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Thomas Neumann
Published at VLDB | Sydney, Australia 2022
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Abstract

We introduce DuckDB-Wasm, a WebAssembly version of the data- base 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 previ- ous 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.

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