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The DuckDB Local UI

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Re: The DuckDB Local UI

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Post by fenghorn »

The UI aesthetics look similar to the excellent Rill, also powered by DuckDB: https://www.rilldata.com/

Rill has better built in visualizations and pivot tables and overall a polished product with open-source code in Go/Svelte. But the DuckDB UI has very nice Jupyter notebook-style "cells" for editing SQL queries.

Re: The DuckDB Local UI

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Post by jamesblonde »

I love DuckDB Labs. They get to work on their cool engine. Get paid by Databricks to build Delta Support. Get paid by MotherDuck to build a UI. Always making the core open-source offering better, but getting massively VC funded companies to pay for it.

Re: The DuckDB Local UI

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Post by IshKebab »

vamega wrote: post #25

This looks pretty great. The UI looked fantastic, and the post mentioned that it was open source. However what's open source appears to be the DuckDB extension, which forwards the requests to a remote URL. I've not been able to find the code for the actual UI. Is the actual UI open source, or is that something MotherDuck is allowing to be used by this while remaining proprietary? Right now it doesn't appear like this…

Honestly I hope they keep some things proprietary. Just making everything FOSS is not a sustainable business model, and I would quite like DuckDB to continue to exist.

I have similar concerns for Astral. Frankly they're single-handedly unshitifying Python, and it would be a tragedy if they run out of money and we're back to dealing with Pip.

Re: The DuckDB Local UI

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Post by thenaturalist »

hamilton wrote: post #86
oulipo wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems heavily inspired by the column summary of ObservableHQ, but that's nice!

(I designed and built the Column Explorer feature) Observable's column summary feature is very nice! But I do think there's a very common lineage around these kinds of diagnostics which motivated both Observables and ours. See Jeff Heer's profiler paper[1] for more. I'm very passionate about this area because I think "first mile problems" are underserved by most tools, but they take the longest to work out. We had to…

Personally, thank you for this awesome work!

I find the ease and intuitiveness of navigating it as well as the clarity of the information presented even for the density of a small window or many columns outstandingly pleasant.

Kudos to you!

Re: The DuckDB Local UI

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Post by ayhanfuat »

fenghorn wrote: post #131

The UI aesthetics look similar to the excellent Rill, also powered by DuckDB: https://www.rilldata.com/ Rill has better built in visualizations and pivot tables and overall a polished product with open-source code in Go/Svelte. But the DuckDB UI has very nice Jupyter notebook-style "cells" for editing SQL queries.

Hamilton Ulmer was involved in both. Back when Twitter was a thing it was really cool to follow his process.

Re: The DuckDB Local UI

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Post by miked98 »

fenghorn wrote: post #131

The UI aesthetics look similar to the excellent Rill, also powered by DuckDB: https://www.rilldata.com/ Rill has better built in visualizations and pivot tables and overall a polished product with open-source code in Go/Svelte. But the DuckDB UI has very nice Jupyter notebook-style "cells" for editing SQL queries.

Rill founder here, I have no comment on the UI similarity :) but I would emphasize our vision is building DuckDB-powered metrics layers and exploratory dashboards -- which we presented at DuckCon #6 last month, PDF below [1] -- and less on notebook style UIs like Hex and Jupyter.

Rill is fully open-source under the Apache license. [2]

[1] https://blobs.duckdb.org/events/duckcon6/mike-driscoll-rill-...

[2] https://github.com/rilldata/rill

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