Jordan Tigani
@jrdntgn.bsky.social
Co-Founder and chief duck-herder at MotherDuck. Likes small data and clever hacks. He/him
Seriously, what the fuck is this. This is completely deranged, and anyone who can’t say so is a coward.
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.
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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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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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.
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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...
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 · last yr.Want to read #ducklake from APACHE SPARK? Check this out: gist.github.com/hannes/395ac... #butdoesitscale #yesitdoes
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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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
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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 · last yr.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...
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.
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).
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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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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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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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...
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 · last yr.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...
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...
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...
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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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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🚢 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!
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 …
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Someone suggested we should have a "quack" sound play in the office when a new paying customer signed up for MotherDuck. I thought, that would be fun to do... I can learn how to use a Raspberry Pi and use MotherDuck in hybrid mode at the same time. motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-...
Quacking at the Edge: DuckDB on Raspberry Pi - MotherDuck Blog
Using MotherDuck’s Dual Query execution on a Raspberry Pi to play a quack sound when users sign up for our service. | Reading time: 12 min read
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