DuckDB, ready for your organisation.
Hugr Lab builds open DuckDB extensions for the systems companies already run, and the pieces that make DuckDB safe to use across a company. Built in Germany, in the open.
DuckDB extensions · data engineering
DuckDB is becoming company infrastructure.
In August 2026 AWS agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the team behind DuckDB. DuckDB itself stays open source. Companies in Europe that adopt it still need it to fit their systems, their identity providers and their auditors, from a vendor under EU jurisdiction. That is what Hugr Lab works on.
Open source you can install today.
Our SQL Server extensions are in the DuckDB community repository, and hugr classic keeps serving GraphQL. More products follow with DuckDB 2.0.
SQL Server for DuckDB
Query and load SQL Server, Azure SQL and Fabric from DuckDB over the native protocol. Keep a DuckLake catalog in SQL Server.
About the SQL Server extensionsGraphQL over your data
The GraphQL engine you may know from hugr-lab.github.io. One API over databases, files and services.
About hugr classicBuilt for organisations whose data cannot leave.
Runs where your data is
Everything we ship runs on your machines or in your own cloud tenant. Nothing is copied to us.
Readable code
Our extensions are open source (MIT, Apache-2.0); the few commercial parts are source-available. You can read everything you run.
European jurisdiction
Hugr Lab is based in Germany. Azure first, with Open Telekom Cloud and STACKIT next.
Built in the open, measured in public.
We publish how our extensions work and how fast they are. Start with SQL Server: two lines in DuckDB.
Need a hand with your data platform?
Data engineering in short projects: SQL Server into a lakehouse, DuckDB in front of your BI, or a platform that stays in your cloud. Done by the people who wrote the code.
Hugr Lab UG is being founded. We take on projects from November 2026.