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Getting Started with DuckDB

You're reading from   Getting Started with DuckDB A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241005
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ned Letcher Ned Letcher
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Simon Aubury Simon Aubury
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: An Introduction to DuckDB FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Loading Data into DuckDB 3. Chapter 3: Data Manipulation with DuckDB 4. Chapter 4: DuckDB Operations and Performance 5. Chapter 5: DuckDB Extensions 6. Chapter 6: Semi-Structured Data Manipulation 7. Chapter 7: Setting up the DuckDB Python Client 8. Chapter 8: Exploring DuckDB’s Python API 9. Chapter 9: Exploring DuckDB’s R API 10. Chapter 10: Using DuckDB Effectively 11. Chapter 11: Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with DuckDB 12. Chapter 12: DuckDB – The Wider Pond 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with the Python DB-API

The DuckDB Python client also provides another API for interacting with DuckDB databases: the Python DB-API. This is an interface that is compliant with the Python Database API Specification v2.0 (DB-API 2.0), which is described by PEP 249 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0249). The DB-API specification describes a standardized interface for accessing databases within Python, which has become a commonly used standard for Python database client packages. By encouraging conformity of API interfaces across different Python database libraries, Python code that targets this interface is more readily understood and more portable across databases, leading to a general increase in the availability of database connectivity in the Python ecosystem.

If you’re developing a Python application that will potentially need to connect to a range of data sources, you will likely want to use the DB-API where possible, as the use of a standardized interface will enable...

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