Torsten „Teggy“ Grust
@teggy.org
Professor — like database systems, programming languages, and SC Freiburg ツ
Quack, quack! A DuckDB v2.0 preview is here! 🦆 In this post, #DuckDB co-creators Mark Raasveldt + @hannes.muehleisen.org preview the headline features of DuckDB v2.0 (expected to land this autumn): • DuckDB as a server • Triggers • async I/O • + more Dive into the deets: duckdb.org/2026/08/17/d...
We’re excited to announce the #DuckDB Boston meetup, which will take place during the week of the VLDB conference. Come join the DuckDB community in Beantown for technical talks, drinks, and networking with new faces and old friends. We hope to see you there! 🦆 (Registration is required but free)
DuckDB Boston Meetup
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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🦆 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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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...
June 2026 issue of #SIGMODRecord is out. And so is the new issue of the Reminiscences column. Many thanks to @teggy.org (Torsten Grust), Wenjie Zhang, and Viktor Sanca for their contributions!! pdf --> sigmodrecord.org/publications...
🤩 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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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 🧵
DuckCon #7 is coming up and we're looking for sponsors. We have a lineup of 15 speakers, sharing their experiences with DuckDB. For the first time, the talks will also cover DuckLake and Quack. Check out the sponsorship packages on the conference site, duckcon.org
Today, we are releasing DuckDB v1.5.3. This is not an ordinary patch release – it packs many new features for the Quack client-server protocol, Quack support for DuckLake, and big updates for AWS, HTTPS and Iceberg. Check out our blog post about all these changes and improvements – link in the 🧵.
ORDER BY Has Come a Long Way modern-sql.com/blog/2026-05... The ORDER BY clause is surely one of the best-known SQL clauses. Yet there are a number of common misunderstandings that are worth clearing up. For that, the article walks you through the evolution of the ORDER BY clause the SQL standard.
SQL’s ORDER BY Has Come a Long Way
ORDER BY Evolution
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This Tuesday, Hannes announced Quack, our new protocol that turns DuckDB into a client-server database. Watch his talk, recorded at the AI Council, where he explained how Quack works in practice, what stack it's built on, how it performs, and what our long-term ambitions are. youtu.be/L_lttD-d1wc
DuckDB-Quack announcement at AI Council
YouTube video by DuckDB
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I've been working on organizing our next DuckCon for the past three months. The program is finally out and I think we have a really strong lineup, featuring speakers from ETH Zürich, Spotify, MariaDB, the Merck Group, Snowflake, Foursquare, and more. Join us in Amsterdam on June 24!
DuckDB@duckdb.org · 4mo agoThe program for DuckCon #7 is out! Here's the gist: – State of the Duck: DuckLake v1.0 + a super-secret new feature – Six regular talks (incl. one from Spotify) – Six lightning talks (incl. Toyota Gazoo WRT) – Drinks & snacks and time to socialize 🧵 Full program and registration link in the thread
The program for DuckCon #7 is out! Here's the gist: – State of the Duck: DuckLake v1.0 + a super-secret new feature – Six regular talks (incl. one from Spotify) – Six lightning talks (incl. Toyota Gazoo WRT) – Drinks & snacks and time to socialize 🧵 Full program and registration link in the thread
Flattered that the good FP folks put up with me as a DB guy. Thank you for the chat, @kosmikus.bsky.social and @sperbsen.bsky.social. What a fun hour to spend!
Haskell Interlude@haskellinterlude.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe sat down with Torsten Grust who is a professor of DB systems at the University of Tübingen. We talked about the best way to program databases, how to bridge the gap between regular programming languages and databases, and compiling just about everything to SQL. haskell.foundation/podcast/81/
We are hosting the next edition of our community conference, DuckCon, in Amsterdam on June 24. The registration is already open and you can submit your talk proposals until next Wednesday. Looking forward to your submissions and seeing the flock in the summer!
🇳🇱 DuckCon returns to the Netherlands! We'll host our next edition on June 24 in Amsterdam. We are looking forward to meeting the DuckDB community in our home town's Royal Tropical Institute for an afternoon of talks and discussions. Please submit your talk proposals and register! duckcon.org
🚨 "AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets" with Mat Gienieczko (@gienieczko.com) is available now! Watch on YouTube ➡️ youtu.be/2YwC_GVvxgA?... Listen on Spotify ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/1YAf... Listen on Apple ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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...
🗓️ This year, we came up with new merchandise: the 2026 Friendly DuckDB calendar, which has a SQL feature for every month along with art inspired by the feature. ⬇️ If you were lucky to get one at our events, that's great! :) If not, you can still grab the PDF at blobs.duckdb.org/merch/duckdb...
🌏 We are happy to announce the first DuckCon in the APAC region: DuckCon #7 will take place in the National Gallery Singapore on 2026-05-05. 🗳️ Registration and the Call for Talks are open! Submit your proposals until 2026-03-18. ➡️ duckdb.org/events/2026/...
🏗️ The DuckDB team is working hard on delivering DuckDB v1.5. 🌃 While the official release is next week, you can already give it a quick test using the nightly builds available at duckdb.org/install/prev... If you encounter any issues, let us know! 🐛💬
DuckDB Preview (Nightly) Installation
DuckDB preview installation page
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🦆 ↔️ 🦀 DuckDB Labs is looking for a Rust engineer to join our team in Amsterdam. 📝 See the details and application page at duckdblabs.com/jobs/rust_en...
Rust Engineer
DuckDB Labs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.
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The ArrayCast is back and now it's broadcast live! Join Conor Hoekstra, Adám Brudzewsky, and guests. The next episode, "FIXAPL with Jacob Lockwood", will take place on Monday 16 February at 15:00 UTC – see www.youtube.com/@arraycast/ #APL #ArrayProgramming #ArrayCast
