Convert SQLite3 to DuckDB
Upload a .sqlite or .db or .sqlite3 file and get back a DuckDB file. Types are preserved rather than flattened to text. Free, no registration, up to 10MB.
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How your data is typed in DuckDB
Generated from the converter's own DuckDB type mapping — this is what it actually emits, not an example.
| Your data | DuckDB type |
|---|---|
| Whole number | BIGINT |
| Decimal (money) | DECIMAL(10,2) |
| Floating point | DOUBLE |
| True / false | BOOLEAN |
| Date | DATE |
| Date and time | TIMESTAMP |
| Short text | VARCHAR |
| Long text | VARCHAR |
| Binary data | BLOB |
Working from a .sqlite3 file
The 3 in .sqlite3 is the version of the file format, not of your file, and it has not changed since 2004. A .sqlite3 and a .sqlite are the same kind of thing under two naming habits, and both are read the same way.
- →db.sqlite3 is Django's default database name, and a Django database converts whole: django_migrations, auth_user and django_session are ordinary tables here and come across with everything else.
- →Nothing is filtered on the way through, so if you only want the application tables it is easier to drop the framework ones in the target database after loading.
- →The extension does not change how the file is read - it only has to be one the uploader recognises, and .sqlite, .sqlite3 and .db all are.
Decimals and text in the .duckdb file
DuckDB takes the source's declared types more nearly unchanged than any other target here, which makes the two places where it cannot the things worth reading: the width of a decimal, and the length of a string.
- →DECIMAL tops out at 38 digits, so a wider source column is clamped rather than refused: an Oracle NUMBER(50,10) is created here as DECIMAL(38,10), and the scale is never allowed to grow past the precision holding it.
- →A decimal that declared no scale gets six places for its fraction rather than none, inside that same rule: a source precision of 10 becomes DECIMAL(10,6), one of 5 becomes DECIMAL(5,5), and one that declared no precision either becomes DECIMAL(18,6).
- →Strings become VARCHAR with no length attached to them. DuckDB's VARCHAR is unbounded, so no column has to be sized in advance and no row can be turned away for being longer than the column it goes in.
Reading SQLite3
- →Declared types, primary keys, NOT NULL constraints and blobs all carry through.
- →SQLite reports INTEGER PRIMARY KEY as nullable because it aliases the rowid; the conversion corrects that.
- →SQLite type affinity is loose, so a NUMERIC column with no declared scale is given room for decimals rather than being rounded to whole numbers.
Writing DuckDB
- →A real .duckdb file, not a script — open it straight away with the DuckDB CLI.
- →DuckDB has genuine DECIMAL and BOOLEAN types, so nothing is flattened on the way in.
What you get
A ZIP containing database.duckdb. If anything about your data needed a judgement call, a _warnings.txt explains it.
Questions
- Is converting SQLite3 to DuckDB free?
- Yes. Files up to 10MB convert free with no account. There is a limit of five conversions per day per IP address.
- Will my SQLite3 data keep its types in DuckDB?
- Yes — that is the point. Whole numbers, decimals, dates and booleans are mapped to real DuckDB types rather than everything becoming text. The mapping table above shows exactly what you get.
- Do you store my file?
- No. The file is written to a temporary directory, converted, and the directory is deleted as soon as your download has been sent.