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Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

by The DuckDB team duckdb.org published 2026-05-12

DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, which allows it to support workloads ranging…

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