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Jordan Tigani @jrdntgn.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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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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Jordan Tigani @jrdntgn.bsky.social · Sep 12

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?

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MotherDuck @motherduck.com · Jul 17

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

Small Data 2025 – The San Francisco Event on Small, Local-First Data

Save the date for Small Data 2025, the event where simplicity meets impact. Join industry leaders in exploring the joys of small, local-first data and the future of efficient computing.

smalldatasf.com

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MotherDuck @motherduck.com · Jul 16

🦆 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...

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Jordan Tigani @jrdntgn.bsky.social · Jul 2

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 :-)

Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org · Jul 1

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

pyspark-ducklake-2.py

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org · Jul 1

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

pyspark-ducklake-2.py

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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MotherDuck @motherduck.com · Jun 23

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

How DuckLake Simplifies Lakehouse Architecture ft. Jordan Tigani & Hannes Mühleisen

YouTube video by MotherDuck

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · Jun 4

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...

DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute

: Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more

www.theregister.com

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Jordan Tigani @jrdntgn.bsky.social · May 28

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.

MotherDuck @motherduck.com · May 28

S3 isn’t a database. But what if your lakehouse finally acted like one?

@jrdntgn.bsky.social shares why the current generation of lakehouse formats like Iceberg and Delta Lake might be missing the point—and how DuckLake, a new table format, changes the game.

motherduck.com/blog/ducklak...

A Duck Walks into a Lake - MotherDuck Blog

DuckDB introduces a new table format, what does it mean for the future of data lakes ? | Reading time: 9 min read

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · May 27

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.

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MotherDuck @motherduck.com · Apr 23

Instant SQL is HERE
#INSTANTSQL

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · Apr 15

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).

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MotherDuck @motherduck.com · Apr 3

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...

Simplifying IoT Analytics with MotherDuck - MotherDuck Blog

Exploring the sweet spot between simplicity and capability in data systems, one IoT hackathon at a time. | Reading time: 7 min read

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MotherDuck @motherduck.com · Apr 1

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...

Just quack, and we’ll code | Quack To SQL AI model

YouTube video by MotherDuck

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Carl Sverre @f0a.org · Mar 31

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...

Stop syncing everything

Discover Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine built to solve the challenges of syncing data at the edge. Inspired by lessons from SQLSync, Graft enables lazy, partial, and strongly consi...

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MotherDuck @motherduck.com · Mar 12

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...

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Hamilton Ulmer @hamilton.bsky.social · Mar 12

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 @duckdb.org · Mar 12

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...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · Mar 12

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...

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Jordan Tigani @jrdntgn.bsky.social · Feb 19

A duck on every desk and in every home

Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · Feb 18

Congrats to @duckdb.org on 100mil total downloads from PyPI!

pypacktrends.com?packages=duc...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · Feb 5

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...

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Jordan Tigani @jrdntgn.bsky.social · Jan 13

Congratulations @hannes.muehleisen.org ! Well deserved.

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MotherDuck @motherduck.com · Dec 17

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...

Separating Storage and Compute in DuckDB - MotherDuck Blog

Why separate storage and compute in DuckDB, how we do it in MotherDuck to enable sharing and future work. | Reading time: 15 min read

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Jordan Tigani @jrdntgn.bsky.social · Dec 5

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...

Introducing Read Scaling - MotherDuck Blog

Read Scaling is now in preview! Read Scaling improves DuckDB SQL query performance by scaling out to multiple DuckDB instances, known as Read Scaling replicas. It is useful to speed up BI dashboards ...

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Jordan Tigani @jrdntgn.bsky.social · Nov 23

I'm sure it is a legit run but I'd be careful drawing conclusions. The DuckDB results they narrowly beat
are from 2023. if someone updates the results the comparison would look quite different. It is a great accomplishment but it shows why it is dangerous to say you're the fastest in a blog post

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