🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Wow! DuckDB just surpassed 40k stars on GitHub. Thank you to everyone whose contributions, bugfixes, and – of course – stars made this milestone possible. 🦆✨ Here's (a very brief bit of) what’s happened since the last 10k-star milestone: duckdb.org/2026/08/05/g... Next stop: 50k. 💪🏽

Bacteria are outsmarting antibiotics, so scientists are turning to their natural predators: phages. 👺 In this talk, Virginie Grosboillot & Herminio Vazquez-Cano explain how they use DuckDB to tame messy, inconsistent genomic files and replace slow Python pipelines with fast, portable SQL workflows.

DuckCon #7 – Phages & DuckDB: The mighty duo against the giants (V. Grosboillot, H. Vazquez-Cano)

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` Asynchronous I/O in #DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work ` It doesn't matter how fast query operators are in a database system if we can't pull in the data quickly. For most of DuckDB's history, this problem was largely avoided by pruning data early. As usual, things changed: duckdb.org/2026/07/31/a...

🤔 Did you know that using DuckLake is not limited to DuckDB? 🔥 Hotdata's DataFusion DuckLake implementation is packed with features: it supports both reads and writes, as well as different catalog databases. 👉 In today's blog post, Divya and Eddie from Hotdata introduce DataFusion-DuckLake.

I've written a new blog post in my series on #DuckDB. This one explores DuckLake and uses its time-travel mechanism to (attempt to!) solve a mystery surrounding how bogus data got into a corporate database. peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/t... CC / @duckdb.org

🦆 Announcing DuckDB 1.5.5 ! 🦆 This release includes a number of bugfixes, performance improvements, and security patches. Summary blog: duckdb.org/2026/07/22/a... Full release notes: github.com/duckdb/duckd... Thank you to all the contributors for providing detailed issue reports and patches. 💖

Announcing DuckDB 1.5.5

Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.5.5 with bugfixes and performance improvements.

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`DuckDB powering cancer genomics research` 🔬 🧑🏽‍🔬 🧪 Watch this presentation from #DuckCon on how Thomas Visser at Hartwig Medical Foundation is using DuckDB to power their research into cancer genomics Slides: blobs.duckdb.org/events/duckc... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf_x...

DuckCon #7 – DuckDB powering cancer genomics research (Thomas Visser)

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Lightweight Text Analytics Workflows with DuckDB In this blog post, Petrica Leuca demonstrates how to use #DuckDB for keyword, full-text, and semantic similarity search with embeddings. Learn how to use DuckDB to efficiently perform advanced text analytics in Python: duckdb.org/2025/06/13/t...

Making Iceberg walk & talk like Postgres 🧊 🐘 Catch up with this #DuckCon talk from by Marco Slot on `pg_lake`: a Postgres extension that adds Iceberg tables in Postgres + query/import/export files in object storage Slides: blobs.duckdb.org/events/duckc... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF8I...

Check out the Awesome DuckDB repo – curated by @davidgasquez.com – to explore the growing list of handy tools and cool projects built around #DuckDB, DuckLake and more. 😎 🦆 Notice a great tool that’s missing? Submit a PR to get it added. Start exploring: davidgasquez.github.io/awesome-duck...

Traditional databases were "sold on the golf course" — to purchasing departments, not developers. @hannes.muehleisen.org on how that blind spot created the gap between pandas and Spark that @duckdb.org walked right into. Episode link below

Missed out on attending #DuckCon in Amsterdam or via the livestream? 🦆📺 Don’t worry, you can still catch up with all the news and roadmap announcements from “The State of the Duck” keynote right here: Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPK... Slides: blobs.duckdb.org/events/duckc... #DuckDB

🤩 DuckCon's talk slides and recordings are out!

DuckCon #7 in Amsterdam

We're hosting DuckCon #7 in our home town of Amsterdam on Wednesday, June 24.

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I followed DuckCon 7 today and wrote up a few notes: DuckLake, migrating smaller PySpark workloads with SQLFrame, local-first analytical apps, data agents, and ggsql. Main takeaway: many analytical problems probably need less machinery than we give them. 🦆 clementc.github.io/blog/2026/06...

That ends the livestream of #DuckCon 7 in Amsterdam. Thank you for joining us today from all around the globe and happy quacking everyone! 🦆🦆🦆

It's now time for the lightning talks at #DuckCon! ⚡ Watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/alp5rha...

I appreciate the technical content being put out by Lander Analytics. Consistently great stuff, on the cutting edge, thoughtfully presented. I use DuckDB all the time and read the official post about the Quack protocol, but this article made some practical recommendations that clicked for me. 🔗

DuckDB’s Quack Protocol Solves the Problem I Kept Working Around

I appreciate the technical content being put out by Lander Analytics. Consistently great stuff, on the cutting edge, thoughtfully presented. I use DuckDB all the time and read the official post about the Quack protocol, but this article made some practical recommendations that clicked for me.

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DuckLake is a new lakehouse format from the DuckDB folks. The pitch is short: keep your Parquet files, but put all the metadata in a SQL database instead of in a pile of Avro and JSON files on object storage. www.ssp.sh/brain/ducklake

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Exciting! I love DuckDB!

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Just a few of the other big announcements happening right now at #DuckCon

Amazing talks so far. If you don't have time yet, and want to read the notes, I'm taking some as we go. www.ssp.sh/brain/duckco...

DuckCon #7 - Amsterdam

Conference about DuckDB.

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Just a few of the other big announcements happening right now at #DuckCon

Coming up next at the next session of #DuckCon in <15 minutes!

Just a few of the other big announcements happening right now at #DuckCon

just announced at #DuckCon and coming soon...

The annual “State of the Duck” keynote by #DuckDB co-creators Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt is starting now! We hope you’re pumped to learn more about what’s on the horizon for the Duck Stack straight from the DuckLabs team. 🦆 Catch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=alp5... #DuckCon

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Joining us online for #DuckCon? The livestream begins at 15:00 CEST (21:00 China // 9:00 U.S. ET) Find it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=alp5...

Who's ready for #DuckCon to get started?

I've always loved @duckdb.org but this makes it even better #databs

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If you've ever hit DuckDB's single-writer limitation, you'll appreciate this. Gus Lipkin takes a look at Quack, DuckDB's new client-server protocol, and why it may finally eliminate the awkward dance of partitioned files, write queues and premature Postgres migrations. bit.ly/4vx8uBi #DuckDB

I made a @duckdb.org extension that estimates how many bytes your query will scan before you run it! Now in the official community extension list, try it out with `INSTALL dryrun FROM community`

🦆 There's only one week to go until DuckCon #7 in Amsterdam! We are all hyped to meet the flock and learn about the latest cool use cases from our community. As always, the event will feature the “State of the Duck” talk from DuckDB's co-creators.

Today, we are releasing DuckDB v1.4.5 and v1.5.4. Yes, we know – these version numbers can be a bit confusing! That's why we wrote two blog posts this time. The thread helps you pick the right one 🧵