Dbxlite
Query 100M+ rows in a browser tab, no install
Details
- External ID
- 46245912
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Dbxlite
- Website domain
- dbxlite.com
- Launched
- Dec. 12, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
What started as a Claude Code experiment turned into a browser-native SQL workbench I now use daily.Runs DuckDB WASM entirely in your browser. No backend, no installation, no signup.- Query local files (CSV, Parquet, Excel) – data never leaves your machine - Handles 100M+ rows, 50GB+ files in a browser tab - Full UI: Monaco editor, schema explorer, spreadsheet-style results grid - Share SQL via URL – anyone can run your query instantly - BigQuery connector built-in (Snowflake coming)v0.2 – actively developing. Feedback welcome.GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/hfmsio/dbxlite
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- query large datasets in browser without installation
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author explicitly notes this was built using Claude Code by wrapping the existing DuckDB-WASM engine in a browser-based UI.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: convertcsv.com/duckdbonline.html
Competitors
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Launched 44 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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