Carlo Piovesan

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.@ducklabs.com is joining Amazon Web Services (AWS), expected to be effective by early Sept. This move gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring #DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and orgs – while keeping our commitment to OSS Read the full announcement here:

DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source

DuckLabs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.

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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

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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...

Delta Grows Up: Writes, Unity Catalog and Time Travel

DuckDB's Delta and Unity Catalog extensions shed their experimental tags — now with writes, Unity Catalog and time travel support.

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We released DuckDB v1.5! This release comes with a “friendly CLI” client, a new (opt-in) PEG parser, support for VARIANT types and many lakehouse features. It also ships a new network stack, a reworked geospatial extension, Azure writes and an ODBC scanner. Read more at duckdb.org/2026/03/09/a...

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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

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If you are into Iceberg or DuckDB, this is a major step: you can access existing Iceberg datasets, while they are appended on or updated by other users (possibly they can also be clicking buttons in a browser). This has been very fun, was looking forward to be able to properly share, thanks flock!

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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 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...

An iPhone 17 Pro in a MAGEASY case, held afloat by DuckLake floating keychains, querying a remote DuckLake in the online Wasm shell. Do not try this at home.

🎓 On September 4, we are hosting a new kind of meetup in London which will focus on the use of DuckDB in Science and Education! ⚡️ We still have some spots for lightning talks. If you're working with DuckDB in your research and/or classroom, consider sharing your story! 🔗 duckdb.org/events/2025/...

DuckDB Meetup on Science and Education in London

DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and easy to use. DuckDB has no external dependencies. DuckDB has bin...

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