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DuckDB

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DuckDB

@duckdb

DuckDB is an analytical SQL database management system. "DuckDB" and the DuckDB logo are registered trademarks of the DuckDB Foundation.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Joined May 2019

DuckDB
@duckdb
Jun 3, 2024
We are proud to release the first major version of DuckDB, v1.0.0, codenamed "Snow Duck". This version is a culmination of almost six years of research and development. Today we are shipping an innovative database system with a backwards-compatible storage format. Check out our
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Jun 12, 2025
We released DuckDB 1.0.0 a little over a year ago with a small easter egg. Since then, no one reported finding it, so we're revealing it: the hash of the DuckDB 1.0.0 binary starts with the duck emoji: 0x1f986 = 🦆.
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DuckDB
@duckdb
May 27, 2025
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've implemented it in
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Mar 12, 2025
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/duc…
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Sep 8, 2025
Big Data on the Move: Can a Framework Laptop 13 ultrabook run terabyte-sized workloads with DuckDB? @szarnyasg ran the experiments and shared his finding in our latest blog post: duckdb.org/2025/09/08/duc…
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Dec 2, 2024
Fun fact: DuckDB is faster at counting the lines of a CSV file than the UNIX word count command – and it also parses the file to identify its dialect (separator, quote character, etc.). Here are the timings for a 3 GB CSV file: 2.966 seconds for `wc -l` and 1.261 seconds for
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Apr 30, 2024
DuckDB was recently covered in @andy_pavlo's Advanced Database Systems course at CMU. The lecture covers DuckDB's history, internals, and integration with other systems. Slides: 15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2024/sli… Recording: youtube.com/watch?v=4iD4h4…
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Jan 26, 2024
New blog post by @mraasveldt: Multi-Database Support in DuckDB duckdb.org/2024/01/26/mul… DuckDB can now attach MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite databases in addition to databases stored in its own format. This allows data to be read into DuckDB and moved between these systems in a
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Nov 5, 2025
🔍 Great blog post on DuckDB for data scientists!
A Deep Dive into DuckDB for Data Scientists
From codecut.ai
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Sep 16, 2025
📈 DuckDB 1.4.0 is out! This is our first LTS release which comes with *one year of community support*. It also supports database encryption, the MERGE SQL statement and Iceberg writes. 🔍 For more details, read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/09/16/ann…
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Jan 13, 2025
We are proud to announce that DuckDB's co-creator, Prof. Dr. Hannes Mühleisen, received the Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2025. This prize is awarded each year to a computer scientist in the Netherlands, who has conducted particularly innovative research in CS within 15 years of
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Sep 9, 2024
We are happy to release DuckDB v1.1.0 “Eatoni”. The new release packs a ton of new features: friendly SQL extensions, performance improvements and spatial features. It also includes improvements towards supporting Community Extensions. See our blog post: duckdb.org/2024/09/09/ann…
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Feb 13, 2024
We are proud to release DuckDB v0.10.0: duckdb.org/2024/02/13/ann… Some highlights: – A reworked and much faster CSV reader – Fixed-length arrays – Multi-database support – Secrets manager – Temporary memory manager – Adaptive lossless floating-point compression – New CLI editor –
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DuckDB
@duckdb
Jun 9, 2023
Looks like duckdb is now pre-installed on Google Colaboratory
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