Starting with DuckDB v1.3, this extension will be archived, and its development and distribution will be discontinued. As a replacement, the nanoarrow extension has been developed as a community-driven project, with shared ownership between DuckDB Labs and the Arrow community. The new extension provides the same functionality as the current one, with the added benefit of being able to scan Arrow IPC stream files as well.

For compatibility reasons, the new extension is also aliased to arrow, meaning you can install and load it with:

INSTALL arrow from community;

LOAD arrow;

DuckDB Arrow Extension

This is a DuckDB extension that provides features that need a dependency on the Apache Arrow library.

Features

function	type	description
to_arrow_ipc	Table in-out-function	Serializes a table into a stream of blobs containing arrow ipc buffers
scan_arrow_ipc	Table function	scan a list of pointers pointing to arrow ipc buffers