Expanding DuckDB capabilities with extensions

We have explored a range of functionalities that DuckDB provides out of the box for data exploration and analysis. DuckDB also supports extensions, which provide a mechanism for adding additional features that enhance its functionality.

DuckDB provides a range of officially supported extensions, with commonly used ones being installed and enabled by default in most DuckDB client distributions. Some extensions are also automatically installed and loaded the first time you make use of their functionality. You can readily install both the official extensions and third-party extensions from remote and local locations.

Extensions can provide a range of different types of functionality, often extending the supported data sources, data formats, data types, operations, or functions. For example, DuckDB’s ability to work with JSON files is enabled by the json extension; the spatial extension adds support for geographic data types and...