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Using lakeFS with DuckDB

DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database management system.

Table of contents

  1. Using lakeFS with DuckDB
    1. Configuration
      1. Configure the lakeFS S3 Gateway endpoint
      2. Querying Data
      3. Writing Data

Configuration

Querying data in lakeFS from DuckDB is similar to querying data in S3 from DuckDB. It is done using the httpfs extension.

Configure the lakeFS S3 Gateway endpoint 

LOAD httpfs;
SET s3_region='us-east-1';
SET s3_endpoint='lakefs.example.com';
SET s3_access_key_id='AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE';
SET s3_secret_access_key='wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY';
SET s3_url_style='path';

Querying Data

Once configured, you can query data using the lakeFS S3 Gateway using the following URI pattern:

s3://<REPOSITORY NAME>/<REFERENCE ID>/<PATH TO DATA>

Since the S3 Gateway implemenets all S3 functionality required by DuckDB, you can query using globs and patterns, including support for Hive-partitioned data.

Example:

SELECT * 
FROM parquet_scan('s3://example-repo/main/data/population/by-region/*.parquet', HIVE_PARTITIONING=1) 
ORDER BY name;

Writing Data

No special configuration required for writing to a branch. Assuming the configuration above and write permissions to a dev branch, a write operation would look like any DuckDB write:

CREATE TABLE sampled_population AS SELECT * 
FROM parquet_scan('s3://example-repo/main/data/population/by-region/*.parquet', HIVE_PARTITIONING=1) 
USING SAMPLE reservoir(50000 ROWS) REPEATABLE (100);

COPY sampled_population TO 's3://example-repo/main/data/population/sample.parquet'; -- actual write happens here