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Getting Started with DuckDB
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Getting Started with DuckDB

by Simon Aubury, Ned Letcher
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
10h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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DuckDB Extensions

In this chapter, we explore DuckDB extensions, which provide a flexible way to add specialized functionality to DuckDB and your workflows. We will review the steps for installing and loading DuckDB extensions and go through some of the powerful capabilities that lie outside the core functionality of DuckDB. We will perform efficient queries on large collections of text data, explore data from remote systems, connect to data in other databases, and jump into the fascinating world of geospatial data processing.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Expanding DuckDB capabilities by exploring some of its extensions
  • Working with geospatial data using DuckDB’s spatial extension

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