a pipe for quackheads
QuackPipe is a serverless OLAP API built on top of DuckDB emulating and aliasing the ClickHouse HTTP API
Play with DuckDB SQL and Cloud storage though a familiar API, without giving up old habits and integrations.
๐ฅ try a sample s3/parquet query in our miniature playground (fly.io free tier, 1x-shared-vcpu, 256Mb)
๐ฅ launch your own free instance on fly.io
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Download a binary release, use docker or build from source
docker pull ghcr.io/metrico/quackpipe:latest
docker run -ti --rm -p 8123:8123 ghcr.io/metrico/quackpipe:latest
curl -fsSL github.com/metrico/quackpipe/releases/latest/download/quackpipe-amd64 --output quackpipe \
&& chmod x quackpipe
./quackpipe --port 8123
./quackpipe --port 8123 --params "/tmp/test.db?access_mode=READ_ONLY"
./quackpipe --port 8123 --params "/tmp/test.db?motherduck_token=YOUR_TOKEN_HERE"
export motherduck_token='<token>'
./quackpipe --port 8123
Run with -h
for a full list of parameters
params | usage | default |
---|---|---|
--port |
HTTP API Port | 8123 |
--host |
HTTP API Host | 0.0.0.0 |
--stdin |
STDIN query mode | false |
--format |
FORMAT handler | JSONCompact |
--params |
Optional Parameters |
Execute stateless queries w/o persistence using the embedded playground
Execute stateful queries with data persistence by adding unique HTTP Authentication. No registration required.
Execute queries using the POST API
curl -X POST https://quackpipe.fly.dev
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-d 'SELECT version()'
Execute queries using STDIN
# echo "SELECT 'hello', version() as version FORMAT CSV" | ./quackpipe --stdin
hello,v0.7.1
Several extensions are pre-installed by default in Docker images, including parquet, json, httpfs
When using HTTP API, httpfs, parquet, json extensions are automatically pre-loaded by the wrapper.
Users can pre-install extensions and execute quackpipe using a custom parameters:
echo "INSTALL httpfs;" | ./quackpipe --stdin --params "?extension_directory=/tmp/"
./quackpipe --port 8123 --host 0.0.0.0 --params "?extension_directory=/tmp/"
Quackpipe can be used to query a remote instance of itself and/or ClickHouse using the HTTP API
CREATE OR REPLACE MACRO quackpipe(query, server := 'https://play.clickhouse.com', user := 'play', format := 'JSONEachRow') AS TABLE
SELECT * FROM read_json_auto(concat(server, '/?default_format=', format, '&user=', user, '&query=', query));
SELECT * FROM quackpipe("SELECT number as once, number *2 as twice FROM numbers(10)")
Quackpipe can be used as executable UDF to get DuckDB data IN/OUT of ClickHouse queries:
SELECT *
FROM executable('quackpipe -stdin -format TSV', TSV, 'id UInt32, num UInt32', (
SELECT 'SELECT 1, 2'
))
Query id: dd878948-bec8-4abe-9e06-2f5813653c3a
โโidโโฌโnumโโ
โ 1 โ 2 โ
โโโโโโดโโโโโโ
1 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.155 sec.
๐ What is this? Think of it as a SELECT within a SELECT with a different syntax.
๐ Format confusion? Make DuckDB SQL feel like ClickHouse with the included ClickHouse Macro Aliases
- DuckDB Core 1
- cgo binding
- Extension preloading
- Aliases Extension
- REST API 2
- CH FORMAT Emulation
- CSV, CSVWithNames
- TSV, TSVWithNames
- JSONCompact
- Native
- Web Playground (from ClickkHouse, Apache2 Licensed) 3
- CH FORMAT Emulation
- STDIN Fast Query Execution
- ClickHouse Executable UDF
-
:memory:
mode Cloud Storage (s3/r2/minio, httpfs, etc) -
:file:
mode using optional parameters