A while back the DuckDB Labs team started a collaboration with LanceDB to bring you an extension that interacts with the Lance lakehouse format from DuckDB. In this post we take the extension for a test drive! duckdb.org/2026/05/21/t...

Today, we are releasing DuckDB v1.5.3. This is not an ordinary patch release – it packs many new features for the Quack client-server protocol, Quack support for DuckLake, and big updates for AWS, HTTPS and Iceberg. Check out our blog post about all these changes and improvements – link in the 🧵.

This Tuesday, Hannes announced Quack, our new protocol that turns DuckDB into a client-server database. Watch his talk, recorded at the AI Council, where he explained how Quack works in practice, what stack it's built on, how it performs, and what our long-term ambitions are. youtu.be/L_lttD-d1wc

Today we are revealing the Next Big Thing for DuckDB: Quack, a protocol that turns DuckDB into a client-server database. True to DuckDB's philosophy, Quack is simple and fast. Setting it up takes seconds, and it works for both bulk operations and small write transactions. 🔗 duckdb.org/quack

The Delta and Unity Catalog extensions in DuckDB have shed their experimental labels! Today's blog post by Ben Fleis presents there features: ✍️ Write Delta tables 🤝 Multi-writer access with concurrency control through UC ⏪ Time travel queries on Delta tables Read more: duckdb.org/2026/05/07/d...

The program for DuckCon #7 is out! Here's the gist: – State of the Duck: DuckLake v1.0 + a super-secret new feature – Six regular talks (incl. one from Spotify) – Six lightning talks (incl. Toyota Gazoo WRT) – Drinks & snacks and time to socialize 🧵 Full program and registration link in the thread

Today is Star Wars day! We are taking the opportunity to tell you about our journey, not across galaxies, but through the process of creating DuckLake dataframe clients with the use of a clanker 🤖. Read more at ducklake.select/2026/05/04/d...

A great short post on DuckDB: peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/d... We certainly didn't expect “interactive installations and art projects” among the list of use cases, but we agree with the author that DuckDB could definitely work in that context too 🎨

Today is your last chance to submit a talk proposal to DuckCon #7. The submission form is lightweight, so it shouldn't take long. If you're in doubt whether your talk idea fits, drop us a DM and we are happy to discuss it further!

"We have a database and we're not afraid of using it." How DuckDB tackled the small changes problem in lakehouse design. www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/d...

We are hosting the next edition of our community conference, DuckCon, in Amsterdam on June 24. The registration is already open and you can submit your talk proposals until next Wednesday. Looking forward to your submissions and seeing the flock in the summer!

The Register published a report on DuckLake v1.0 and cited our recent post: > In a blog post accompanying the 1.0 launch, Pedro Holanda, DuckDB Labs principal engineer, said the company's benchmark shows 926× faster queries and 105× faster ingestion when compared to Iceberg, the open table format.

We heard that a specification looks more serious if it's served as a PDF. Well, you can read the DuckLake documentation as a PDF now (blobs.duckdb.org/docs/ducklak...)! This document covers both the specification and the DuckDB extension's usage.

Yesterday, we released DuckLake v1.0 and also published a podcast where Pedro Holanda and Mark Raasveldt talk about the DuckLake, going into quite some technical details. Listen to the episode at ducklake.select/media/duckla...

We are happy to release DuckLake v1.0, a production-ready lakehouse format specification. Its reference implementation, the ducklake DuckDB extension, is available as of today in DuckDB v1.5.2. For more details, read the announcement blog post: ducklake.select/2026/04/13/d...

Would you like to learn more about SQL or are you more interested in DuckDB's internals? Either way, you're in luck: Professor Torsten Grust (@teggy.org) of the University of Tübingen published two sets of lectures (almost 300 slides in total) along with their supplementary material.

DuckLake 1.0 will ship with the “data inlining” feature: small updates are staged in the catalog instead of creating many small files. In today's blog post, Pedro Holanda shows how DuckLake implements inlining and shows an almost 1000× speedup on certain operations. ducklake.select/2026/04/02/d...

🇳🇱🌷🚲 DuckDB now speaks Dutch! Load the EendDB community extension and start writing your queries in het Nederlands: duckdb.org/2026/04/01/d...

🇳🇱 DuckCon returns to the Netherlands! We'll host our next edition on June 24 in Amsterdam. We are looking forward to meeting the DuckDB community in our home town's Royal Tropical Institute for an afternoon of talks and discussions. Please submit your talk proposals and register! duckcon.org

🎨 We rolled out a new section on our landing page this week! We hope it will help you explore the DuckDB ecosystem at a glance.

📈 Today, we are releasing DuckDB version 1.5.1, a patch release with bug fixes, performance improvements and support for the Lance lakehouse format. ➡️ duckdb.org/2026/03/23/a...

New blog post by Giorgi Dalakishvili: Building DuckDB Extensions in C# DuckDB.ExtensionKit lets C# developers define scalar and table functions, which can be shipped as native DuckDB extensions – without touching any C/C++ code! Read the full blog post at duckdb.org/2026/03/20/d...

We're excited to announce duckdb-skills, a DuckDB plugin for Claude Code! We think the embedded nature of DuckDB makes it a perfect companion for Claude in your local workflows. Check out the repository at github.com/duckdb/duckd...

👀 DuckDB spotted in this year's NVIDIA GTC keynote: youtu.be/jw_o0xr8MWU?...

5️⃣ Save the date: on 05. 05., we'll hold the first DuckCon in the APAC region. 5️⃣ Singapore is the 5th city where we host the conference after Brussels, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Seattle. 5️⃣ Most importantly: you have 5 days to submit your talk proposals! ➡️ duckdb.org/events/2026/...

🍻 ​​We are hosting a pub session during NVIDIA GTC! If you are in San Jose next Tuesday, sign up to have a beer with DuckDB's co-creator Hannes Mühleisen and members of the DuckDB community. 🎟️ luma.com/d0x8pwu0

🌱 Today, Apple released the MacBook Neo, an entry-level laptop with the processor from a phone, 8 GB of memory, and no active cooling. 💡 Naturally, our first thought was: can you use this machine to process Big Data? Read our analysis to find out. 🔗 duckdb.org/2026/03/11/b...

New releases of duckdb-rs and duckdb-go have dropped! github.com/duckdb/duckd... github.com/duckdb/duckd...

We released DuckDB v1.5! This release comes with a “friendly CLI” client, a new (opt-in) PEG parser, support for VARIANT types and many lakehouse features. It also ships a new network stack, a reworked geospatial extension, Azure writes and an ODBC scanner. Read more at duckdb.org/2026/03/09/a...

🧩 If you have played The New York Times Connections Puzzle and found it to be devilishly difficult, worry not. Tom Jakubowski's connections.duckdb project that lets you check your guesses – or outright cheat to solve the puzzle. Up to you! 🔗 github.com/tomjakubowsk...

📉 We decided to postpone the DuckDB release to next week to land some bug fixes and improve the robustness of the system. Sorry about that! 📈 In the meantime, we have a cool new thing to announce – you can now install the DuckDB CLI using Python's pip: pip install duckdb-cli

🗓️ This year, we came up with new merchandise: the 2026 Friendly DuckDB calendar, which has a SQL feature for every month along with art inspired by the feature. ⬇️ If you were lucky to get one at our events, that's great! :) If not, you can still grab the PDF at blobs.duckdb.org/merch/duckdb...

🌏 We are happy to announce the first DuckCon in the APAC region: DuckCon #7 will take place in the National Gallery Singapore on 2026-05-05. 🗳️ Registration and the Call for Talks are open! Submit your proposals until 2026-03-18. ➡️ duckdb.org/events/2026/...

🏗️ The DuckDB team is working hard on delivering DuckDB v1.5. 🌃 While the official release is next week, you can already give it a quick test using the nightly builds available at duckdb.org/install/prev... If you encounter any issues, let us know! 🐛💬

🦆 ↔️ 🦀 DuckDB Labs is looking for a Rust engineer to join our team in Amsterdam. 📝 See the details and application page at duckdblabs.com/jobs/rust_en...

🎞️ The slide decks and talk recordings of last Friday's developer meeting are out! duckdb.org/events/2026/...

📆 The DuckDB Developer Meeting in Amsterdam starts tomorrow! We'll have a deep-dive extension development workshop in the morning and four exciting talks in the afternoon. 🎟️ Last chance to register at duckdb.org/events/2026/...

DuckDB 1.4.4 LTS is out: duckdb.org/2026/01/26/a... The last time we had a “.4” patch release was in 2022 for version 0.3.4. Of course, the project was at a very different stage then. We hope that this release irons out most of the bugs that you encountered in v1.4. Let us know!

DuckDB now supports reading from and writing to the Vortex file format! The DuckDB Labs and Spiral teams have worked together to make Vortex available as a core extension in DuckDB. We gave it a test drive, and it performed very well. Read the full article to learn more lnkd.in/eZfGzPiZ

We are going to hold the first DuckDB Developer Meeting in two weeks in Amsterdam! On the day of the meeting, DuckDB Community Extensions development champion Rusty Conover will also give a workshop on DuckDB extension development. Check out the programme and sign up at duckdb.org/events/2026/...

🖥️ In today's “What's on your desk?” episode, @hannes.muehleisen.org tests the MOREFINE M700S computer. This computer ships with a Loongson processor that comes with its own CPU architecture. Despite this, DuckDB runs on it quite easily. See the details in the blog post. ➡️ duckdb.org/2026/01/06/d...

🏛️ We launched the DuckDB Library: a curated collection of papers, podcasts, talks and books about DuckDB. 📚 We already have a collection of almost one hundred entities. The thumbnails show whether a piece is from the DuckDB team (yellow) or from others (purple). ➡️ duckdb.org/library/

You can now query Iceberg catalogs with DuckDB – from the convenience of your browser. In our latest blog post, we break down how DuckDB's WebAssembly client makes this possible with zero setup and showcase it in action using Amazon S3 Tables. 👉 duckdb.org/2025/12/16/i...

In seven weeks, we will host the first DuckDB Developer Meeting in Amsterdam. We have four exciting talks lined up on building extensions in DuckDB, encryption in DuckDB, DuckPL and GizmoEdge. For more details and the registration links, please head to duckdb.org/events/2026/...

DuckLake now supports data inlining with PostgreSQL and SQLite catalogs! You can avoid the small files problem in your lakehouse with any DuckLake supported catalog. Update your DuckLake extension in any client on DuckDB 1.4.x to use this feature. P.S. Don't forget to flush!

We are happy to announce DuckDB v1.4.3 LTS, our latest patch release. Along with bugfixes, this release ships native extensions and Python support for Windows ARM64. Head to duckdb.org/2025/12/09/a... for the announcement blog post and installation instructions.

We are hosting the DuckDB Developer Meeting on January 30 (Friday) in Amsterdam, the day before the FOSDEM weekend in Brussels. This is a new kind of event focused on development in DuckDB and with DuckDB. Check out the preliminary programme and register at duckdb.org/events/2026/...

In DuckDB v1.4.2, we shipped a number of features and improvements to the DuckDB-Iceberg extension: insert, update, and delete statements are all supported now. Read Tom Ebergen's new article on these features at duckdb.org/2025/11/28/i...

DuckDB v1.4 introduced the much-requested feature of database encryption. In our new blog post, @ccfelius.bsky.social and @hannes.muehleisen.org explain how the encryption works under the hood: duckdb.org/2025/11/19/e...

DuckDB's website and extension installation endpoint are still intermittently down due to today's Cloudflare outage – see our status page for more details: status.duckdb.org For a single-file PDF copy of our documentation, see our recent post.