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DuckDB as an analytical runtime 📊 🦆 What if a DuckDB file could contain an entire analytics workspace? In this talk from DuckCon, Ilya Boyandin from Foursquare / GeoVisually GmbH presents on building local-first analytics apps with SQLRooms and #DuckDB.

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DuckCon #7 – Building local-first analytics apps with SQLRooms (Ilya Boyandin)

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 29/09/2026

Jev & DuckDB: Plain-English Conditions in SQL 😎 🦆 Jev is a model that answers with a typed value and a probability instead of a paragraph. A number of DuckDB + Jev community extensions have been published that let you filter, classify, and score DuckDB rows with plain-English conditions. More:

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Jev and DuckDB: Plain-English Conditions in SQL

TypeSafe AI released Jev, a model that returns typed answers instead of text, on September 15, 2026. Within ten days, several community extensions let you filter, classify and score DuckDB rows with p...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 29/09/2026

Announcing DuckDB 1.5.6 🦆 🦆 This is the sixth patch release in DuckDB’s 1.5 (Variegata) line. The release ships bugfixes, performance improvements, and security patches. Find the full release notes on GitHub⁠ or browse the overview here:

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Announcing DuckDB 1.5.6

Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.5.6 with bugfixes and performance improvements.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 29/09/2026

I've been playing with @duckdb.org and I gotta say the docs are amazing. The built-in web shell is a really nice touch. You can play with DuckDB right inside your web browser. This might be my SQLite replacement. duckdb.org/docs/current

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 25/09/2026

Did you know that, since #DuckDB v0.10.3 (~May 2024), you can point a SELECT at a dataset on the Hugging Face Hub⁠, using the DuckDB `hf://` protocol, and query it, without downloading it first? 🤗 🦆 This blog post covers how that Hugging Face + DuckDB integration works and the use cases it fits:

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DuckDB and Hugging Face: Querying Datasets Directly

Hugging Face hosts hundreds of thousands of datasets, and DuckDB can read them directly, exactly where they are and without downloading anything, over the DuckDB hf:// protocol. This post looks at how...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 25/09/2026

[ICYMI:] Why SQL Won 🏁 In this interview with Let's Data Science, #DuckDB co-creator @hannes.muehleisen.org argues that the data industry misdiagnosed SQL’s problems a decade ago. What developers *actually* hated in 2013 was the install, the server and the client protocol, not the language itself:

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DuckDB's creator tells LDS why SQL won

Hannes Muhleisen, creator of DuckDB, told Lets Data Science that the industry misdiagnosed SQL a decade ago: what developers hated in 2013 was the install, the server and the client protocol, not the ...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 24/09/2026

DuckDB Now Ships inside dbt v2 🦆 📦 In this blog post, Geertjan Wielenga walks you through how to set up dbt v2, DuckLake and Iceberg catalogs, querying dbt’s Parquet metadata with DuckDB, plus other v2 features that matter to DuckDB users, including migrating to dbt v2. Dive in here:

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DuckDB Now Ships inside dbt v2

dbt v2, which runs on the new Rust-based Fusion engine, is the first dbt release that ships with a built-in DuckDB adapter. This post covers setup, DuckLake and Iceberg catalogs, querying dbt's Parque...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 22/09/2026

Attending the Rows & Columns Summit in San Francisco today? *THE* @hannes.muehleisen.org, co-creator of #DuckDB, will give a talk on “Nobody Knows What OLTP Is: DuckDB Moves to the Middle” at 1:30 p.m. (today, Sept 22nd) We hope to see you there! 🦆 🦆 Sassy abstract and more info here:

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Nobody Knows What OLTP Is: DuckDB Moves to the Middle

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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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 22/09/2026

Grep your lakehouse: Search-first retrieval for DuckDB-powered agents 🦆 😎 In this DuckCon talk, Sylvain Utard at Altertable presents on bringing full-text and semantic search to DuckLake to increase agent effectiveness. Watch the vid below or lurk the slides here: blobs.duckdb.org/events/duckc...

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DuckCon #7 – Grep your lakehouse: Search-first retrieval for DuckDB-powered agents (Sylvain Utard)

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 18/09/2026

When DuckDB-Wasm was launched in 2021, databases couldn't be persisted: everything lived in the Wasm heap and vanished when the tab closed. Now, DuckDB-Wasm can use the Origin Private File System (OPFS) in modern browsers as a storage backend. @carlo.piovesan.io & Geertjan Wielenga show you how:

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Persistent Databases in the Browser with DuckDB-Wasm and OPFS

DuckDB-Wasm can open a persistent database file in the browser's Origin Private File System (OPFS). This post shows how, and when data reaches disk.

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 18/09/2026

Are you attending #dbtSummit in Las Vegas? 😎 Don’t miss @hannes.muehleisen.org deliver his talk “dbt Without the Warehouse (or the Bill): DuckDB End to End” Hannes’s talk starts at 10:00 a.m. PT on Friday, Sept 18th – on Level 3, Gracia 4. Don’t miss it! And say hi to Hannes if you stop by!

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 16/09/2026

DuckDB Skills for Claude Code The `duckdb-skills` plugin gives Claude Code a growing number of skills that use the DuckDB CLI to read data files, run queries, convert formats, explore object storage, search the docs, and recall earlier sessions. Here's how it works (and how you can get started):

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DuckDB Skills for Claude Code

The duckdb-skills plugin gives Claude Code a growing number of skills that use the DuckDB CLI to read data files, run queries, convert formats, explore object storage, work with spatial data, search t...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 15/09/2026

We got early access to an NVIDIA Vera CPU, so we put it through its paces using DuckDB running the full TPC-H workload and compared it against a high-end x86 baseline CPU. Our experiments have two key findings.

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 15/09/2026

DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL & Parquet In this episode of @talkpython.fm , host @mkennedy.codes talks with Pedro Holanda and Guillermo Sanchez Dionis from @ducklabs.com about the unique – and powerful – architecture of #DuckLake from top to bottom. Watch/listen to the episode here:

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DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

github.com/duckdb/commu... Now officially approved as a DuckDB Community Extension! This initial release was basic, just an entry ticket. Version 1.0.1 is faster, feature-rich, and locally tested. It's committed and will be released soon and submitted as a fresh PR to DuckDB-CE.

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Add marc21 extension by mgbilby · Pull Request #2597 · duckdb/community-extensions

Adds the marc21 extension: read, write, validate and edit MARC 21 bibliographic data (ISO 2709 in UTF-8/MARC-8 with the full LC code tables, MARCXML, MARC-in-JSON, breaker, Aleph sequential; SRU/OA...

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Philipp Krenn @xeraa.net · 03/09/2026

after all the attention for duckdb's acquisition by AWS: one of my favorite things is their "why @duckdb.org" page — duckdb.org/why_duckdb explainining their tradeoffs and goals; and how they try to achieve those through technical means

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 02/09/2026

🐣 DuckDB v2.0 is around the corner! We started publishing alpha releases and encourage our community to give them a go. If you encounter any issues, we're more than happy to fix them before the release in October. duckdb.org/2026/09/02/t...

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Try DuckDB v2.0-alpha

DuckDB's development team in Amsterdam has started getting DuckDB v2.0 ready for release in October. If you like shiny new things, try out the alpha releases now and report anything that might not be ...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 01/09/2026

[v2.0 preview:] #DuckDB’s recursive CTE engine now treats recursion as 1 long-lived computation: it retains eligible epoch-invariant state, chooses execution modes from exact frontier cardinalities and physical work, probes keyed state directly and gives `USING KEY ... UNION` changed-key semantics.

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How DuckDB Runs Recursive CTEs Faster

DuckDB's recursive CTE engine now treats recursion as one long-lived computation: it retains eligible epoch-invariant state, chooses execution modes from exact frontier cardinalities and physical work...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 28/08/2026

We hope you’ll join us for the DuckDB #Boston meetup on Sept 3rd starting at 5:30 pm happening at W Boston hotel (100 Stuart St). Meet other #DuckDB devs, learn from the technical talks, and enjoy some drinks & snacks! 🦆 🦆 🦆 Admission free, registration required, full agenda below. Who’s coming?

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DuckDB Boston Meetup

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 28/08/2026

What’s Next for DuckDB? 🦆 🤔 @hannes.muehleisen.org, co-creator of #DuckDB, was recently interviewed by @krisajenkins.bsky.social of the Developer Voices podcast on every challenge, reward, twist and turn of building a database as popular as DuckDB -- including a big acquisition. Watch or read:

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What Next for DuckDB

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Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org · 26/08/2026

Some big news: @ducklabs.com is joining AWS, with the move expected to complete by early September. Our team will stay together in Amsterdam, with more resources to take DuckDB, DuckLake and Quack further - while the open-source Duck Stack remains free under MIT license ducklabs.com/news/2026/08...

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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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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 26/08/2026

.@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:

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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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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 25/08/2026

DuckDB Table Functions in Java 🦆 ☕ The DuckDB #Java client registers table functions written in pure Java, exposing any Java-accessible data source as a SQL table. That turns #DuckDB into a single-node query engine for heterogeneous joins across remote systems and local files, with no export step.

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DuckDB Table Functions in Java

The DuckDB Java client can register table functions written in pure Java, exposing any Java-accessible data source as a SQL table. That turns DuckDB into a single-node query engine for heterogeneous j...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 24/08/2026

Here’s your chance to meet fellow DuckDB devs in person! Join us for the @duckdb.org Boston meetup on Sept 3rd starting at 5:30 p.m. Enjoy some drinks and snacks, meet other DuckDB users, and learn from the technical talks. Admission is free, but registration is required. Will we see you there? 🦆🦆

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DuckDB Boston Meetup

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 21/08/2026

`Chunked Query Results in the DuckDB Java Driver` 🦆 ☕ The DuckDB #Java driver can now return query results as data chunks, avoiding JDBC’s one-row-at-a-time ResultSet. #DuckDB is a columnar, vectorized database. JDBC was designed in 1997. Here’s how the new DuckDB Java driver bridges the two:

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Chunked Query Results in the DuckDB Java Driver

The DuckDB Java driver can now return query results as a lazily fetched sequence of columnar data chunks, avoiding JDBC's row-at-a-time ResultSet and its per-value overhead.

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 20/08/2026

Your database deserves a better parser (Don’t worry, #DuckDB v2.0 is giving you one) 🦆 🦆 Read more from @dtenwolde.bsky.social on how DuckDB v2.0 replaces its Postgres-derived SQL parser with a PEG-based parser that is easier to evolve and can be extended at runtime:

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DuckDB v2.0: Your Database Deserves a Better Parser

DuckDB v2.0 replaces its PostgreSQL-derived SQL parser with a PEG-based parser that is easier to evolve and can be extended at runtime.

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 19/08/2026

It’s time for a tale: Woo-oo! 🦆 🦆 🦆 🎵 🎶 The story of DuckDB is about more than just a database, but also the community around it. From our humble beginnings in 2018 🐣 to the preview announcement of DuckDB v2.0 and beyond 🦆⚡ – here’s the complete Duck tale from start to finish:

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History

History DuckDB and Its Ecosystem The DuckDB story now extends beyond the original database. Here is how the projects, organizations, and commercial services around it developed, and how they fit toget...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 18/08/2026

(🦆🦆!) DuckDB v2.0 will ship #JSON functions that allow you to easily apply JSON patches. #DuckDB ’s JSON extension already covers reading JSON, extracting paths, applying RFC 7396 merge patches, and the usual scalar accessors. Read more in this post by Mustafa Khan: duckdb.org/2026/08/18/r...

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Alejandro Wainzinger @xevix.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Massive wins in this upcoming release. PEG parser is going to enable all kinds of syntax extensions, async I/O is a huge performance win.

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 17/08/2026

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...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 13/08/2026

Why SQL won 🏁 In this interview with Let's Data Science, #DuckDB co-creator @hannes.muehleisen.org argues that the data industry misdiagnosed SQL’s problems a decade ago. What developers *actually* hated in 2013 was the install, the server, and the client protocol, not the language itself. #SQL

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DuckDB's creator tells LDS why SQL won

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 07/08/2026

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)

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DuckDB Boston Meetup

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 05/08/2026

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 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. 💪🏽

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 03/08/2026

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.

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

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 31/07/2026

` 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...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 30/07/2026

🤔 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.

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Bringing DuckLake to DataFusion

We implemented DuckLake for Apache DataFusion, supporting multiple databases as catalog backends. The integration gives DataFusion a lakehouse format that manages snapshots and catalog metadata for Pa...

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Pete Doherty @ethagnawl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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

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The Mystery on DuckLake: A Time-Travelling Whodunit Story - peterdohertys.website

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 23/07/2026

🦆 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. 💖

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Announcing DuckDB 1.5.5

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

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 21/07/2026

`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...

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

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 15/07/2026

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...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 13/07/2026

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...

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 09/07/2026

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...

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Nitay Joffe @nitayj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 06/07/2026

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

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Clément Chastagnol @herrdoktorfunk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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...

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Clément Chastagnol ~ Notes on DuckCon 7 🦆

What I learned at DuckCon 7 🦆.

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 24/06/2026

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

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 24/06/2026

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

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Jared Knowles @jaredknowles.com · 24/06/2026

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

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