🎞️ 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.

Today's Cloudflare outage has affected the DuckDB documentation site. While it seems to be mostly recovered now, it will take some time until everything stabilizes. If you need to look things up in the DuckDB documentation now, feel free to use our PDF: duckdb.github.io/duckdb-docs-...

🚀 We released DuckDB v1.4.2, the second patch release of our LTS edition. 🔎 We are shipping new Iceberg features, improved logger/profiler integration and several bugfixes. The new DuckDB version can also read and write Vortex files. 📖 For more details, read duckdb.org/2025/11/12/a...

📢 The final episode of DuckDB in Research's second season is out! ➗ This week, host Jack Waudby interviews Paul Groß, PhD student at CWI Amsterdam, to explore his work on adaptive factorization and worst-case optimal joins. 🎧 Listen to the episode at duckdb.org/science/paul...

🧭 Great blog post on DuckDB for data scientists! codecut.ai/deep-dive-in...

🎨 Are you creating a website or presentation that mentions DuckDB? Check out our design manual for advice on how to use our logo: duckdb.org/design/manual/

🚀 DuckDB Labs is hiring a DevOps Engineer and a Sales Engineer in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 🤔 Want to join one of the fastest-growing database startups? Work with the team that disrupted analytical data management and grow with us in your new role. 👉 Apply now until November 7: duckdblabs.com#jobs%EF%BF%BC

The PyData Amsterdam 2025 keynote “Minus Three Tier: Data Architecture Turned Upside Down” by @hannes.muehleisen.org is out now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxwD...

📢 A new DuckDB in Research podcast episode is out. 📈 In this week's episode, Jack Waudby interviews Mihail Stoian (@mihailstoian.bsky.social), PhD student at the Data Systems Lab, UT Nuremberg about the Parachute approach for robust query processing. 🎧 Listen at duckdb.org/science/miha...

🎞️ 𝘊𝘢𝘯 you store a movie in DuckDB? In today's blog post, @hannes.muehleisen.org shows how to store a movie as a table encoding the RGB codes pixel-by-pixel, and how to process it: duckdb.org/2025/10/27/m... Now, whether you 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 store a movie in DuckDB... we'll leave that to your judgment.

In a new guest blog post, Mark Harrison (Madhive) presents Frozen DuckLakes. These are read-only DuckLakes that only require object storage and are frozen in time. He shows a process for creating and freezing DuckLakes, and demonstrates their use and performance. 📖 ducklake.select/2025/10/24/f...

A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation challenge in 5 sec view on hacker news

We recently revamped our installation page to make it sleeker but this also meant removing the nightly builds. While there's less need for nightly builds now – 99% of users should use the latest stable – they can still be useful for testing, so we created a page for them: duckdb.org/install/prev...

There's a new DuckDB episode from @disseminatepodcast.bsky.social. In S02E02, host Jack Waudby interviews Abigale Kim (@abigalekim.bsky.social), a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on anarchy in database extensions. 🎧 Listen to the full episode at duckdb.org/science/abig...

📣 New blog post by @dtenwolde.bsky.social. 🕸️ In this post, we show how to use DuckDB and the DuckPGQ community extension to analyze financial data for fraudulent patterns with the SQL/PGQ graph syntax that's part of SQL:2023. 📖 Visit duckdb.org/2025/10/22/d... to read the post.

DuckDB Labs is looking for a Customer Support Engineer to help customers set up and operate DuckDB. As Customer Support Engineer, you'll operate in the intersection of the DuckDB community, the DuckDB Labs customers, and the DuckDB core development team. Apply at duckdblabs.com/jobs/custome...

🇫🇮 ​We are hosting a pub session next week during the @helsinkidataweek.bsky.social, where you can chat with DuckDB's co-creator, @hannes.muehleisen.org and have a drink with members of the DuckDB community. 🎟️ Sign up on Luma: luma.com/s5sl9qxx

The “DuckDB in Science” edition of the Disseminate podcast is back for a second season! In S02E01, host Jack Waudby interviews Torsten Grust (@teggy.org). Torsten is a professor at the University of Tübingen and has been using DuckDB for 5+ years – for teaching, research and Advent of Code puzzles!

We migrated the DuckDB Go driver's repository from marcboeker/go-duckdb to github.com/duckdb/duckd.... What does this mean in practice? 🗂️ Administratively: – The project is now maintained by the core DuckDB team as a primary DuckDB client. – The license of the driver stays the same.

🚀 We released DuckDB v1.4.1, the first bugfix release of our LTS edition. 🔎 We expect LTS users to be particularly curious about changes in the system, so we wrote up a short blog post highlighting the most important fixes and improvements. duckdb.org/2025/10/07/a...

✨ We launched a new installation page for DuckDB! 🚀 The new page lets you install the latest stable DuckDB release with just one or two clicks. If the defaults don't fit your use case, no worries: alternative download methods remain available for many clients.

Are you streaming into your Lakehouse? Traditional formats suffered with the “many small files” problem — OLAP engines merge them reactively with long jobs. ⏳ DuckLake takes a proactive path: Data Inlining + async flush to parquet while always keeping data queryable ⚡

We published a new deep dive by Laurens Kuiper, who recently redesigned DuckDB's sort. One data point: ordering the TPC-H SF100 lineitem table with the memory limit set to 30 GB is 3× faster in DuckDB v1.4 than in v1.3. Read more at duckdb.org/2025/09/24/s...

“Open source is giving back, because it means everyone who supports our work can participate and benefit from the software we are making." — @hannes.muehleisen.org (@duckdb.org) at Open Lakehouse + AI Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Ready to shape the future of data, open source, and AI together? ⬇️ #opensource #oss

Our website, duckdb.org, has recently crossed 4 million monthly unique visitors. It now handles 110M+ requests and serves more than one petabyte of data each month!

🚀 Kotlin DataFrame 1.0.0-Beta3 is here! Working with data in Kotlin is now smoother thanks to Parquet and DuckDB support, improved compile-time schema tracking via the Compiler Plugin, and refreshed docs. Read the full release notes 👇 kotl.in/w2eq2c

🚀 We released version 0.3 of the DuckLake specification and the DuckDB ducklake extension today. It includes interoperability with Iceberg, support for geometry types and more. Check the announcement blog for more details ducklake.select/2025/09/17/d...

📈 DuckDB 1.4.0 is out! This is our first LTS release which comes with *one year of community support*. It also supports database encryption, the MERGE SQL statement and Iceberg writes. For more details, read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/09/16/a...

We're testing a new distribution channel for @duckdb.org : #docker images. For now they live at `hfmuehleisen/duckdb`, feel free to test them out. And yes, hell got a little colder today. hub.docker.com/r/hfmuehleis...

$ duckdb D .mode line D SELECT stargazers_count FROM read_json('https://api.github.com/repos/duckdb/duckdb'); stargazers_count = 32768 In other words:

We are beta testing a new, more streamlined installation site at duckdb.org/install. Let us know what you think!

Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) has been hosting a weekly puzzle where you have to guess the name of a train station for an anagram. We already use the Dutch railway dataset in our demos, so writing a SQL solver for this puzzle was an interesting exercise. Read more at duckdb.org/2025/09/11/s...

We are holding the DuckDB Amsterdam Meetup next week, featuring talks by @rolandbouman.bsky.social, Tania Bogatsch and @qxip.bsky.social: www.meetup.com/duckdb/event... The event is already at capacity but consider joining the wait list because there are always last-minute RSVP cancellations.

In the recent npm supply chain attack, DuckDB's Node.js and Wasm packages were compromised with malware. We have investigated the issue, deprecated the affected packages and released new versions. We have released a security advisory that contains our full postmortem: github.com/duckdb/duckd...

Big Data on the Move: Can a Framework Laptop 13 ultrabook run terabyte-sized workloads with DuckDB? @szarnyasg.org ran the experiments and shared his finding in our latest blog post: duckdb.org/2025/09/08/d...

We just launched the “DuckDB in Science” site, a curated collection of papers, lectures and podcasts about DuckDB in research: duckdb.org/science/ 🎡 If you would like to learn more about DuckDB in Science, consider joining our meetup in London this Thursday: www.meetup.com/duckdb/event...