Building a read-only P2P SQLite Database in the browser (opens in new tab)

The Harvard Library Innovation Lab recently wrote about serving the data.gov archive as static DuckDB files: put the database on ordinary static hosting, load DuckDB-WASM in the browser, and rely on HTTP Range requests so queries fetch only the byte ranges they need. With this, no query server, no backend database and no per-user compute on the origin are needed!