SpotDB
Instant SQL sandboxes for your AI agents
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Instant SQL sandboxes for your AI agents
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Give your agents a secure, containerized SQL sandbox with MCP or API access enabled with DuckDB. No infra required, quick spin-up cycle. Push any CSV — query, analyze, and move on.
@nicolasbistolfi congrats on the launch! This looks really interesting.
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How does it compare with DuckDB MCP?
@belsandre Thank you, that's a very valid question!
DuckDB MCP exposes raw SQL directly, which creates risks if an LLM issues destructive commands or stumbles over schema setup. SpotDB takes the opposite approach with read-only, guardrailed queries, making it safe to let AI assistants or automations explore CSVs and run analytics without touching production systems.
Unlike DuckDB MCP, which requires you to prep a database file and handle schema details, SpotDB is frictionless. You can upload a CSV and start querying instantly, with no setup overhead. That makes it ideal for quick data exploration, debugging, demos, or any workflow where speed and simplicity matter more than database plumbing.
SpotDB also extends beyond MCP with HTTP and socket APIs, so it plugs into scripts, dashboards, CI jobs, and no-code tools. It’s ephemeral by default, with the option to persist snapshots to S3 when needed, and it comes with built-in observability — rate limiting, injection detection, and performance stats.
This combination makes it well-suited for collaborative, production-adjacent, or enterprise scenarios where security and guardrails are non-negotiable.
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@nicolasbistolfi thank you and congrats on the launch! I think I can use DuckDB MCP with read-only. Also reading a csv into DuckDB is only one line so it’s pretty quick. How is SpotDB different then? I’m curious about the “plugs into scripts and dashboards” comment and would love to understand how it would work or see some examples.
@nicolasbistolfi @belsandre thanks for digging into this! You can get a lot done with read only access.
Here's an example of what you can do with SpotDB - it's read only on the original csv, but you can create new datasets in the same DB to augment and get more out of the analysis. This combined with the snapshot ability helps you share/pick up the data or trace back changes, which we've seen can help with workflows.
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@nicolasbistolfi @andreea_georgescu1 would love to try it out when your brew tap comes online! :)