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What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?


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An exciting project in the Wasm ecosystem is pyodide, which ports CPython to WebAssembly, offering a full Python environment in your browser just from a URL, minimizing reliance on cloud resources. In this small project, we have created a Firefox extension that displays the schema of Parquet files when you hover your mouse over them in GCP Cloud Storage. Check out the complete extension code here, and watch our full livestream with Christophe Blefari discussing DuckDB Wasm and this project.

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