Today, @ducklabs_com is joining @awscloud. The move is expected to be completed by early September.
Joining AWS gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and organizations – and to pursue ideas at a scale
A DuckDB Database with No Data in It 🦆 🫨
A DuckDB database file does not have to contain any data. It can store nothing but view definitions that point at files stored somewhere else, such as Parquet on object storage.
The file stays a few hundred kilobytes no matter how
[Guest blog:] 🍃🦆☕
At the company where I work, we store vulnerability data for our clients as a collection of documents in MongoDB. Initially, our analytics screen performed well, but as our data volume increased, response times began to slow.
We needed to find an
Analytical workloads are full of repeated strings 🧵: product names, country names, station names, user agents, category labels, duck species, and more.
Grouping on repeated strings is expensive. By moving them into a small dimension table with sorted, narrow integer keys,
🦆 DuckDB v2.0.0 ships in a few weeks. Here's an accurate depiction of our CI pipeline building the v2.0.0-dev clients.
🙌 Help us craft a great release by trying out the preview release and reporting any issues that you encounter.
🧵 Link in the thread.