DuckDB

IP RESTRICTIONS

Make sure to allow traffic from one of the Paradime IPs in your firewall depending on the data location selected.

👉 See also: Paradime IP addresses.

Add Development Connection

You will be prompted to add a Development connection during the onboarding, or you can add more connections by going to account settings > connections, select Development Environment and enter the required fields.

Configuration for a DuckDB Connection

In the Development connection setup screen, you will need to fill in the form with the details of the connection you want to use to run dbt™️ models against a DuckDB database.

In this example we are connecting to s3 to read/write parquet files using an AWS access key and secret, these secrets can be stored in the user environment variable settings.

Field Details

Below are list of fields and example to create a connection.

Field	Description	Example	Level
Profile Name	The profile name set in your dbt_project.yaml . See more here.	dbt-duckdb	🏢 Workspace level
Target	The target name used to identify the connection. See more here.	dev	🏢 Workspace level
Profile Configuration	Here is where you can define the path to the DuckDB database where the dbt™️ will run. Additionally you will be able to configure any supported DuckDB extensions by listing them in the extensions You can also set any additional DuckDB configuration options via the settings field, including options that are supported in any loaded extensions.	extensions: - httpfs - parquet path: ./dbt.duckdb settings: s3_access_key_id: '{{ env_var("S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID") }}' s3_region: '{{ env_var("S3_REGION", "us-west-1") }}' s3_secret_access_key: '{{ env_var("S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY") }}'	👥 User level
Schema	The default schema used to build dbt™️ objects at runtime.	dbt_john	👥 User level
Threads	The number of threads used in this connection. See more here.	8	👥 User level

For additional supporting docs see DuckDB SQL reference.

Explore data in your DuckDB database from Paradime

Paradime integrates with Harlequin out of the box - no installation required. Check our integration guide on how you can query where you can query data directly from the Paradime Terminal.

Harlequin