MotherDuck is a serverless cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB. It's designed for fast, interactive SQL analytics without the infrastructure overhead.  
Build a modern data warehouse for BI, or power customer-facing analytics in your app.  
Develop and iterate locally, share and scale in the cloud when you need it.

## Choose your path

[**MotherDuck Tutorial**\  
Build an end-to-end workflow: load data, transform it, and share results](/content/docs/getting-started/e2e-tutorial/index.html)  
[**Data Warehousing Overview**\  
Build a modern warehouse with ingestion and transformation](/content/docs/getting-started/data-warehouse/index.html)  
[**Customer-Facing Analytics Overview**\  
Build analytics apps with the MotherDuck Wasm client](/content/docs/getting-started/customer-facing-analytics/index.html)

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**Talk to Your Data with AI**\  
Analyze your data with natural language using the remote MCP Server](/content/docs/getting-started/mcp-getting-started/index.html)  
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**Create Visualizations with Dives**\  
Generate interactive, shareable dashboards from natural language prompts](/content/docs/key-tasks/ai-and-motherduck/dives/index.html)

### Try MotherDuck for free

Sign up and start querying in minutes. No credit card required.

[Get Started Free](https://app.motherduck.com/)

## Connect to MotherDuck

Connect to MotherDuck using official drivers and APIs for various programming languages.

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**Python**](/content/docs/getting-started/interfaces/client-apis/python/installation-authentication/index.html)  
[**MotherDuck UI**](/content/docs/getting-started/interfaces/motherduck-quick-tour/index.html)  
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**Node.js**](https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/clients/node_neo/overview.html)

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**WebAssembly**](/content/docs/sql-reference/wasm-client/index.html)  
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**Golang**](/content/docs/integrations/language-apis-and-drivers/go-driver/index.html)

## Load data to MotherDuck

Load your data from other databases and object storage

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**S3**](/content/docs/integrations/cloud-storage/amazon-s3/index.html)  
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**PostgreSQL**](/content/docs/key-tasks/loading-data-into-motherduck/loading-data-from-postgres/index.html)  
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**BigQuery**](/content/docs/integrations/databases/bigquery/index.html)

## Integrate with your data stack

Connect with a lot of common tools from the modern data stack.

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**dbt**](/content/docs/integrations/transformation/dbt/index.html)  
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**Fivetran**](https://fivetran.com/docs/destinations/motherduck#motherduck)  
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**Tableau**](/content/docs/integrations/bi-tools/tableau/index.html)

## Common tasks

Some common tasks and use cases to get you started.

[**Connect to Power BI**\  
Use the DuckDB Power Query connector for Power BI](/content/docs/integrations/bi-tools/powerbi/index.html)  
[**Authenticate**\  
Log in or use access tokens for CLI and drivers](/content/docs/key-tasks/authenticating-and-connecting-to-motherduck/authenticating-to-motherduck/index.html)  
[**Query from DuckDB CLI**\  
Install the DuckDB CLI and connect directly to MotherDuck](/content/docs/getting-started/interfaces/connect-query-from-duckdb-cli/index.html)

[**Use SQLAlchemy**\  
Connect to MotherDuck with Python & SQLAlchemy](/content/docs/integrations/language-apis-and-drivers/python/sqlalchemy/index.html)  
[**Connect to DuckLake**\  
Use DuckLake to build a data lake on top of your own files](/content/docs/integrations/file-formats/ducklake/index.html)