DuckDB in Action

appendix Client APIs for DuckDB

This appendix covers

• Alternative client APIs for DuckDB
• When and where those APIs are useful
• A word on concurrency
• How to ingest large amounts of data through client APIs
• A showcase of the Java Database Connectivity integration

So far, we’ve focused on either the DuckDB CLI or the Python integration. The former is not only the easiest and fastest way to bring up a DuckDB database and use it but also the smoothest way of teaching DuckDB without having to install a lot of things. The latter just follows naturally, as many of the analytics use cases of DuckDB are rooted in the broader Python world.

There is only so much you can put into one book, however, so the look we are taking at integrations in this ...