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MotherDuck

Serverless DuckDB in the cloud — beloved by data engineers.

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About

MotherDuck (motherduck.com) is serverless DuckDB: the beloved embedded analytics database, now as a cloud service with sharing, collaboration, and scale.

DuckDB itself is MIT; MotherDuck is the commercial cloud. The data-engineer favorite for analytics that doesn't need a warehouse cluster.

What it can do

  • Serverless DuckDB
  • Hybrid local+cloud queries
  • Data sharing
  • Notebooks
  • MIT DuckDB core

Setup

  1. Sign up at motherduck.com.
  2. Connect via the UI, CLI, or DuckDB extension.
  3. Query local + cloud data together.

Prerequisites

Account; DuckDB familiarity helps.

Use cases

datacode

Works with

Generic APIAny agent (.md)

Trust score — 8/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 8/10 (verified tier). Beloved product built on MIT DuckDB with strong data-engineer traction. Docked for the proprietary cloud layer. Adoption is a provider-tier estimate (thinner evidence). Verified tier.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
8.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
7.0/10
Openness · license + docs
6.9/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
8.0/10
  • · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
  • · serverless DuckDB; no public repo — adoption estimated
  • · released 285 days ago
  • · manual review: MotherDuck — serverless DuckDB in the cloud; beloved by data engineers; license: proprietary cloud; DuckDB itself is MIT

Sources

Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.