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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · 5d

3 options:
- Keep the amazing name Duck Lake
- Get rid of that pesky space and go full DuckLake
- Towny McTownFace

Christopher-J (fka Beauty Personified) @chrjcar.bsky.social · 11d

A small Saskatchewan #town is looking for a new moniker and hoping to get some much-needed funds in the process. The town of #DuckLake, about 80 km northeast of Saskatoon, is accepting expressions of interest for its #NamingRights, with minimum bid set at $10 million.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What’s in a name? Sask. town looking to find out by selling naming rights to highest bidder | CBC News

The small Saskatchewan town of Duck Lake could soon bear a new name, after its council voted to move forward with putting the town's permanent naming rights up for sale. Mayor Jason Anderson says he's...

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · 27d

Bird names are the real mvp, no bias here

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Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · Oct 7

#duckdb #ducklake #cmu www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Gh...

DuckLake: Learning from Cloud Data Warehouses to Build a Robust “Lakehouse” (Jordan Tigani)

YouTube video by CMU Database Group

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CMU Database Group @db.cs.cmu.edu · Oct 6

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...

[Future Data] DuckLake: Learning from Cloud Data Warehouses to Build a Robust "Lakehouse" - Carnegie Mellon Database Group

When building scalable data systems, it is easy to focus on the... Read More +

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Oct 2

Maybe a checksum repository would be enough?

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · Sep 29

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 ⚡

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Sep 29

I think we might all perish....

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austin @aparker.io · Sep 28

when I say “storage is cheaper now” this is what I mean

topicpartition.io/definitions/...

Small Data

Small Data Small data appears to be a very exciting movement that is moving the overton window away from Big Data onto much simpler and cheaper solutions ...

topicpartition.io

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Sep 27

How's the async io boost looking?

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Sep 27

Welcome to the flock!!!

__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Sep 26

How many 6 year old databases get 3x faster sorting??? When it was already world-class??? Amazing stuff from DuckDB!

DuckDB @duckdb.org · Sep 25

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...

Redesigning DuckDB's Sort, Again

After four years, we've decided to redesign DuckDB's sort implementation, again. In this post, we present and evaluate the new design.

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Sep 26

It me

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · Sep 18

🚀 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...

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · Sep 17

Fall 2025 Seminar Schedule:
Sep 22: Apache Iceberg
Sep 29: Apache Hudi
Oct 06: @motherduck.com
Oct 13: SpiralDB Vortex
Oct 27: @singlestore.com
Nov 03: @deltalakeoss.bsky.social
Nov 10: Mooncake
Nov 17: @firebolthq.bsky.social
Nov 24: @xtdb.com
Dec 01: Apache Polaris

Future Data Systems Seminar Schedule (Fall 2025)

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · Sep 12

Such a fun listen on ducklake and duckdb with @hannes.muehleisen.org and @markraasveldt.bsky.social!

Learned a lot, the future of ducklake looks very bright!

overcast.fm/+AAH1YOLrL6Q

Duck Lake: Simplifying the Lakehouse Ecosystem — Data Engineering Podcast

overcast.fm

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Sep 12

Is says "This is satire" in very fine print all the way at the bottom

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Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org · Sep 10

Excited to be a keynote speaker at PyData Amsterdam 2025 (September 24–26). My talk is titled 'Minus Three Tier: Data Architecture Turned Upside Down'.

Use code PYDATADB10 for 10% off tickets
amsterdam.pydata.org/conference
#PDAmsterdam2025 #10YearsPDAmsterdam

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jd @jd.codes · Sep 5

I've been leading the data infrastructure efforts at my job (I used to work as a Data Engineer in big tech) and the stack we've landed on is so enjoyable to work with.

@dagster.io - Orchestration
@duckdb.org - Database
@motherduck.com - Data Warehouse/storage
DBT - Data modeling

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Peter Boncz @peterabcz.bsky.social · Sep 4

Laurens Kuiper from @duckdb.org presented DuckDB's new memory assignment policy to run multi-join pipelines out-of-core with gracious performance degradation when join hash tables increasingly do not fit in RAM.

A well-attended and -delivered talk!

paper: vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p2748-kuiper.pdf

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · Aug 28

Bad news: we had to postpone today's episode.

Good news: @tylerhillery.com has a great blog entry that features some of the Oxide and Friends back catalog you might have missed!

Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · Aug 24

I wrote about why I believe the Oxide and Friends podcast will have a greater impact on their mission to change computing forever than their rack scale computer

tylerhillery.com/blog/oxide-a...

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you, I really appreciate it!!

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Aug 16

That would be perfect, thank you!

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ah, so you are saying you hit a bug on the first execution? If you can reproduce it, we love bug reports!!

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__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social · Aug 15

"GROUP BY ALL" was added to Oracle! Friendlier SQL to the rescue!

Gerald Venzl @gvenzl.bsky.social · Aug 5

‼️ #Oracle #Database 23.9 brings some really cool #Developer features to the table:

😎 GROUP BY ALL
🥇 Non-positional INSERT statements - first and only database to support this
🔢 UUIDv4
And more!

Definitely check it out 👇

What’s new for Developers in Oracle Database 23.9

For more information on what's new in Oracle Database 23.8, see: What's new for Developers in 23.8 Oracle Database 23.9 has been my favorite RU so far. The features introduced in 23.9 are some of those that we had long had on our list, but simply took a while to get to and to get right. The Non-Positional INSERT INTO…

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · Aug 14

🔥 DuckDB is featured in @fireship.bsky.social's “100 seconds” series:

🚀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHm6...

DuckDB in 100 Seconds

YouTube video by Fireship

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