Missed out on attending #DuckCon in Amsterdam or via the livestream? 🦆📺 Don’t worry, you can still catch up with all the news and roadmap announcements from “The State of the Duck” keynote right here: Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPK... Slides: blobs.duckdb.org/events/duckc... #DuckDB

🤩 DuckCon's talk slides and recordings are out!

I followed DuckCon 7 today and wrote up a few notes: DuckLake, migrating smaller PySpark workloads with SQLFrame, local-first analytical apps, data agents, and ggsql. Main takeaway: many analytical problems probably need less machinery than we give them. 🦆 clementc.github.io/blog/2026/06...

That ends the livestream of #DuckCon 7 in Amsterdam. Thank you for joining us today from all around the globe and happy quacking everyone! 🦆🦆🦆

It's now time for the lightning talks at #DuckCon! ⚡ Watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/alp5rha...

I appreciate the technical content being put out by Lander Analytics. Consistently great stuff, on the cutting edge, thoughtfully presented. I use DuckDB all the time and read the official post about the Quack protocol, but this article made some practical recommendations that clicked for me. 🔗

DuckLake is a new lakehouse format from the DuckDB folks. The pitch is short: keep your Parquet files, but put all the metadata in a SQL database instead of in a pile of Avro and JSON files on object storage. www.ssp.sh/brain/ducklake

Exciting! I love DuckDB!

Amazing talks so far. If you don't have time yet, and want to read the notes, I'm taking some as we go. www.ssp.sh/brain/duckco...

Coming up next at the next session of #DuckCon in <15 minutes!

Just a few of the other big announcements happening right now at #DuckCon

just announced at #DuckCon and coming soon...

The annual “State of the Duck” keynote by #DuckDB co-creators Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt is starting now! We hope you’re pumped to learn more about what’s on the horizon for the Duck Stack straight from the DuckLabs team. 🦆 Catch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=alp5... #DuckCon

Joining us online for #DuckCon? The livestream begins at 15:00 CEST (21:00 China // 9:00 U.S. ET) Find it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=alp5...

Who's ready for #DuckCon to get started?

I've always loved @duckdb.org but this makes it even better #databs

I made a @duckdb.org extension that estimates how many bytes your query will scan before you run it! Now in the official community extension list, try it out with `INSTALL dryrun FROM community`

🦆 There's only one week to go until DuckCon #7 in Amsterdam! We are all hyped to meet the flock and learn about the latest cool use cases from our community. As always, the event will feature the “State of the Duck” talk from DuckDB's co-creators.

Today, we are releasing DuckDB v1.4.5 and v1.5.4. Yes, we know – these version numbers can be a bit confusing! That's why we wrote two blog posts this time. The thread helps you pick the right one 🧵

When the sea lion learns to quack: #DuckDB now swims into #MariaDB 🦭🦆 mariadb.org/duckdb-stora...

What's new in DuckDB and how does DuckDB fit into old shell scripts? These are topics that our DevRel Gábor covered at Ubuntu Summit 2026. His talk explained three aspects of DuckDB: a command-line tool, a portable database, and a client-server database. duckdb.org/library/duck...

DuckDB-Iceberg, one of DuckDB's most popular extensions, received another set of features! In today's blog post, Tom Ebergen and Thijs Bruineman demonstrate the features shipped with v1.5.3: – MERGE INTO – ALTER TABLE – partition transforms – schema properties – V3 support – and more

I will be speaking at Ubuntu Summit 26.04 on Thursday about DuckDB. My presentation will cover DuckDB at three different deployment models: as a CLI tool, as a portable database, and as a server. The event is streamed but requires registration – see ubuntu.com/summit

DuckCon #7 is coming up and we're looking for sponsors. We have a lineup of 15 speakers, sharing their experiences with DuckDB. For the first time, the talks will also cover DuckLake and Quack. Check out the sponsorship packages on the conference site, duckcon.org

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