The DuckDB Local UI
33 points by btbytes
33 points by btbytes
The DuckDB team is working on very cool stuff, and I applaud them trying to find a way to sustain the project through commercial entities like DuckDB Labs and MotherDuck.
That said, it’s worth noting that the “open source UI extension” highlighted in the post is basically just an HTTP proxy to MotherDuck’s commercial UI: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-ui/blob/main/src/http_server.cpp#L243-L278
You can verify this by running duckdb -ui with an internet connection turned off and seeing that your “localhost” page fails to load. I like the single statically linked binary deploy nature of DuckDB and wish that I could just host the UI myself, maybe one day they will open source a basic version?
Yeah I was excited for something more like the Fossil GUI server, which is just right there in the binary.