When you do a livestream on halloween, of course it must be done in costume. Hopefully the people who watch the recording later on don't think the anglerfish was just a metaphor for MotherDuck customer acquisition techniques.

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Jordan Tigani (@jrdntgn.bsky.social) will present how @motherduck.com supports modern workloads with DuckLake. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...

You're on the last flight out, gets delayed for two hours and then cancelled. You notice there is a place called "Artichoke Joe's Casino" in walking distance of the airport. Stay up all night playing Pai Gow or risk it on an airport hotel?

Come join us for THE conference of the year! 🎫🦆 Early bird tix are live! 🎤 First round of speakers just dropped! Join the builders doing more with less → $295 until Aug 4: smalldatasf.com

🦆 NEW: Mega and Giga ducklings are here! For when your data is too big, your queries too complex, and "fast enough" isn't fast enough. Learn More: motherduck.com/blog/announc...

A DuckLake reader for PySpark in ~30 lines of code. Despite looking simple, still partitions work across Spark nodes. Zero external dependencies, just the DuckDB JDBC driver. Try that with your favorite lakehouse technology :-)

Want to read #ducklake from APACHE SPARK? Check this out: gist.github.com/hannes/395ac... #butdoesitscale #yesitdoes

If you missed the livestream with @jrdntgn.bsky.social and @hannes.muehleisen.org, now it's your time to catch up! A technical discussion about the evolution of open table formats and lakehouse architecture. youtu.be/-PYLFx3FRfQ

DuckDB announced DuckLake and here is why I think I ended up writing such a long piece about it. God bless @theregister.com for giving me the legroom. Thanks to @andypavlo.bsky.social @jrdntgn.bsky.social @hannes.muehleisen.org @hyounpark.bsky.social www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/d...

Yesterday DuckDB Labs announced DuckLake, a new Open data and catalog format. Here is a bit about why it is so awesome, how it solves some key problems with existing technologies, and why we're excited to host it in the cloud at MotherDuck.

Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. ⁠ducklake is an open standard and we implemented it in the "ducklake" extension.

Instant SQL is HERE #INSTANTSQL

This legendary panel of technical founders includes Yury Izrailevsky (co-founder of ClickHouse), Kishore Gopalakrishna (founder of StarTree, creator of Apache Pinot), @jrdntgn.bsky.social (co-founder of MotherDuck), and @captaintobs.bsky.social (founder of Tobiko, creators of SQLMesh and SQLGlot).

Faraz Hameed, winner of the hackathon we co-hosted with Airbyte, shares the story behind his winning project — an IoT use case powered by a modern data stack. motherduck.com/blog/simplif...

Prompting is so 2024. We’re pushing the boundaries of simplicity with @duckdb.org Meet Quack to SQL — our new AI model that turns quack into powerful SQL 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJWP...

What if your app could combine the simplicity of physical replication with the efficiency of logical replication? Meet Graft: lazy, partial, strongly consistent edge replication. #OpenSource #EdgeComputing #Replication sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-s...

Introducing the DuckDB Local UI, the easiest way to explore local data files with DuckDB. Built in close partnership with @duckdb.org for the community. duckdb -ui Learn more: duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

So thrilled the DuckDB UI is out to the world! Read the post, but wanted to also share a couple small design details we thought about in thread

DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

A duck on every desk and in every home

We are happy to announce DuckDB v1.2.0 “Histrionicus”! The new release has several usability, security and performance improvements. It has new features for the CSV and Parquet formats, as well new (opt-in) options for DuckDB's own format. Read more at duckdb.org/2025/02/05/a...

Separating Storage <- and -> Compute in DuckDB by @jrdntgn.bsky.social including how we do this separation in the MotherDuck data warehouse for performance and sharing. motherduck.com/blog/separat...

I'm super excited about this launch... it solves one of the scalability gaps we had in MotherDuck, which was "what happens when I put up a dashboard that gets hammered?" motherduck.com/blog/read-sc...

🚢 just shipped in the MotherDuck UI: Table Summary Click a table/view in your catalogs to see column distributions, top values, & null %s. Plus an easy way to peek at actual rows when you need that security blanket. An easy way to build intuition about your tables w/o having to write SQL!

Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...

Someone suggested we should have a "quack" sound play in the office when a new paying customer signed up for MotherDuck. I thought, that would be fun to do... I can learn how to use a Raspberry Pi and use MotherDuck in hybrid mode at the same time. motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-...