Create minimal example database with SQLAlchemy and/or DuckDB

Before going forward with a full database for all the inputs, it's worth putting together a small database for a subset of the inputs, just to test out the approach and the tooling.

This should consist of:

• a set of csv files containing the data
• an in-memory database that reads in the csv files, with all the necessary validation steps. I think we've identified SQLAlchemy as an appropriate tool
• retrieval of data from the database into xarray and/or pandas

I'd probably go with the commodities section of the database to start with as it's relatively self contained.