Overview

What Is SwanLake?

SwanLake is an Arrow Flight SQL server backed by DuckDB. It provides a gRPC SQL endpoint for fast query and ingestion flows, with optional DuckLake integrations for lake-style storage.

Why Use It?

• Standardized SQL service endpoint over Arrow Flight SQL
• Good analytical performance from DuckDB execution
• Flexible storage patterns through DuckLake + external systems
• Operational visibility from a built-in status page and metrics

Typical Use Cases

• Building internal analytics APIs for product and business data
• Ingesting logs and metrics for interactive analysis
• Querying data-lake-style datasets with SQL clients and ADBC tools

Next Steps

• Quick Start
• Configuration
• Deployment