Jordan Tigani
@jrdntgn.bsky.social
Co-Founder and chief duck-herder at MotherDuck. Likes small data and clever hacks. He/him
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.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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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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 +
db.cs.cmu.edu
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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...
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?
September 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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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Come join us for THE conference of the year!
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🎤 First round of speakers just dropped!
Join the builders doing more with less →
$295 until Aug 4: smalldatasf.com
🎫🦆 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
July 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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
🎫🦆 Early bird tix are live!
🎤 First round of speakers just dropped!
Join the builders doing more with less →
$295 until Aug 4: smalldatasf.com
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🦆 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...
For when your data is too big, your queries too complex, and "fast enough" isn't fast enough.
Learn More: motherduck.com/blog/announc...
July 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🦆 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...
For when your data is too big, your queries too complex, and "fast enough" isn't fast enough.
Learn More: motherduck.com/blog/announc...
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 :-)
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
July 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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 :-)
Reposted by Jordan Tigani
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
July 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Want to read #ducklake from APACHE SPARK? Check this out: gist.github.com/hannes/395ac... #butdoesitscale #yesitdoes
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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
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
youtu.be
June 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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
A technical discussion about the evolution of open table formats and lakehouse architecture.
youtu.be/-PYLFx3FRfQ
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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
June 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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...
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.
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...
@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
motherduck.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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.
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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.
May 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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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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).
April 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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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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...
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
motherduck.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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...
motherduck.com/blog/simplif...
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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...
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
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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...
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...
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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...
#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...
sqlsync.dev
March 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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...
#OpenSource #EdgeComputing #Replication
sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-s...
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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...
duckdb -ui
Learn more:
duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
March 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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...
duckdb -ui
Learn more:
duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
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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
Read the post, but wanted to also share a couple small design details we thought about in thread
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...
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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
Read the post, but wanted to also share a couple small design details we thought about in thread
Reposted by Jordan Tigani
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...
March 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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...
A duck on every desk and in every home
February 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A duck on every desk and in every home
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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...
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...
February 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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...
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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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...
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
motherduck.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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...
motherduck.com/blog/separat...
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 ...
motherduck.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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...
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🚢 just shipped in the MotherDuck UI: Table Summary
Click a table/view in your catalogs to see column distributions, top values, & null %s. Plus an easy way to peek at actual rows when you need that security blanket.
An easy way to build intuition about your tables w/o having to write SQL!
Click a table/view in your catalogs to see column distributions, top values, & null %s. Plus an easy way to peek at actual rows when you need that security blanket.
An easy way to build intuition about your tables w/o having to write SQL!
November 21, 2024 at 7:03 PM
🚢 just shipped in the MotherDuck UI: Table Summary
Click a table/view in your catalogs to see column distributions, top values, & null %s. Plus an easy way to peek at actual rows when you need that security blanket.
An easy way to build intuition about your tables w/o having to write SQL!
Click a table/view in your catalogs to see column distributions, top values, & null %s. Plus an easy way to peek at actual rows when you need that security blanket.
An easy way to build intuition about your tables w/o having to write SQL!
Reposted by Jordan Tigani
Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...
Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community
I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …
simonwillison.net
November 20, 2024 at 6:08 AM
Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...