--- title: Running DuckDB as a MySQL 9.7 storage engine | daily.dev description: An experimental MySQL 9.7 build called ducksdb-mysql-engine integrates DuckDB as a pluggable storage engine, allowing tables marked ENGINE=DuckDB to offload... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/running-duckdb-as-a-mysql-9-7-storage-engine-hhxnvb0s1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Running DuckDB as a MySQL 9.7 storage engine | daily.dev og:description: An experimental MySQL 9.7 build called ducksdb-mysql-engine integrates DuckDB as a pluggable storage engine, allowing tables marked ENGINE=DuckDB to offload... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/running-duckdb-as-a-mysql-9-7-storage-engine-hhxnvb0s1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hhXnvB0s1.png og:image:alt: Running DuckDB as a MySQL 9.7 storage engine og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Running DuckDB as a MySQL 9.7 storage engine **[Percona Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/percona)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An experimental MySQL 9.7 build called ducksdb-mysql-engine integrates DuckDB as a pluggable storage engine, allowing tables marked ENGINE=DuckDB to offload analytical queries to DuckDB's columnar engine while keeping the same MySQL connection and data. A custom pushdown_select hook (handlerton::pushdown_select) translates qualifying SQL to DuckDB SQL transparently, falling back to the normal row path when needed. TPC-H benchmarks at scale factor 10 show InnoDB timing out on 6 of 22 queries and taking 1317 seconds on the rest, while the DuckDB engine completes all 22 in ~15 seconds. At SF100 (600M rows), the engine remains correct on all 22 queries and stays close to native DuckDB performance, outperforming MariaDB's DuckDB integration on several heavy joins and loading data ~4x faster. The project is open source under GPLv2 and explicitly experimental. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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