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• Announcing DuckDB 1.4.2 LTS (duckdb.org)
  Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.4.2, the second patch release of our LTS edition. The new release ships several bugfixes and performance op…
• Frozen DuckLakes for Multi-User, Serverless Data Access (duckdb.org)
  We show how you can build high-performance data lakes with no moving parts.
• Uncovering Financial Crime with DuckDB and Graph Queries (duckdb.org)
  You can process graphs in DuckDB! In this post, we show how to use DuckDB and the DuckPGQ community extension to analyze financial data for…
• Adoption Metrics and Benchmark Results for DuckDB v1.4 LTS (duckdb.org)
  The DuckDB landing page makes some strong claims about DuckDB's popularity. In this blog post, we show evidence for these claims.
• Announcing DuckDB 1.4.1 LTS (duckdb.org)
  Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.4.1, the first patch release of our LTS edition.
• DuckLake 0.3 with Iceberg Interoperability and Geometry Support (duckdb.org)
  We are releasing version 0.3 of the DuckLake Specification and the ducklake DuckDB extension.
• Streaming Patterns with DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB used for streaming analytics? This post will show you some patterns in which you can use DuckDB to refresh your data at near real-ti…
• Redesigning DuckDB's Sort, Again (duckdb.org)
  After four years, we've decided to redesign DuckDB's sort implementation, again. In this post, we present and evaluate the new design.
• Announcing DuckDB 1.4.0 LTS (duckdb.org)
  We're releasing DuckDB version 1.4.0, codenamed “Andium”. This is an LTS release with one year of community support, and it packs several n…
• Discovering DuckDB Use Cases via GitHub (duckdb.org)
  In this post, we use the GitHub API to find repositories that mention DuckDB, then use DuckDB itself to parse and query the results efficie…
• DuckLake 0.2 (duckdb.org)
  We released the DuckLake v0.2 standard, which is supported by DuckDB v1.3.1's ducklake extension.
• Solving Letter Scramble Puzzles with DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  In this lighthearted post, we solve a puzzle type that's on display in Dutch trains.
• Big Data on the Move: DuckDB on the Framework Laptop 13 (duckdb.org)
  We put DuckDB through its paces on a 12-core ultrabook with 128 GB RAM, running TPC-H queries up to SF10,000.
• Lightweight Text Analytics Workflows with DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  In this post, we demonstrate how to use DuckDB for keyword, full-text, and semantic similarity search with embeddings.
• Basic Feature Engineering with DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  In this post, we show how to perform essential machine learning data preprocessing tasks, like missing value imputation, categorical encodi…
• Spatial Joins in DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB v1.3.0 significantly improved the scalability of geospatial joins with a dedicated SPATIAL_JOIN operator.
• 30 000 Stars on GitHub (duckdb.org)
  We have reached 30 000 stars on GitHub! Here's what happened while we accumulated the last 5 000 stars.
• Faster Dashboards with Multi-Column Approximate Sorting (duckdb.org)
  With any columnar data format, using advanced multi-column sorting when loading data can improve performance on a wide variety of selective…
• Arrow IPC Support in DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB now supports consuming and producing the Arrow IPC Serialization Format through the arrow community extension.
• DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format (duckdb.org)
  DuckLake simplifies lakehouses by using a standard SQL database for all metadata, instead of complex file-based systems, while still storin…
• Announcing DuckDB 1.3.0 (duckdb.org)
  The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 1.3.0, codenamed “Ossivalis”.
• USING KEY in Recursive CTEs (duckdb.org)
  Recursive CTEs in SQL allow for powerful iterative queries like graph traversals but can be memory-intensive and slow due to repeated row a…
• The Lost Decade of Small Data? (duckdb.org)
  We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
• Maximizing Your Delta Scan Performance in DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  We released a new version of the delta extension, which includes several new features and performance improvements. In this blog post, we’l…
• Sorting on Insert for Fast Selective Queries (duckdb.org)
  Sorting data when loading can speed up selective read queries by an order of magnitude, thanks to DuckDB's automatic min-max indexes (also…
• Machine Learning Prototyping with DuckDB and scikit-learn (duckdb.org)
  In this post, we prototype a machine learning workflow using DuckDB for data handling and scikit-learn for modeling.
• Temporal Analysis with Stream Windowing Functions in DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB can perform time-based analytics using windows with different semantics (e.g., tumbling, hopping and sliding windows). In this post,…
• DuckDB's CSV Reader and the Pollock Robustness Benchmark: Into the CSV Abyss (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB ships with a fast and robust CSV reader, which – we believe – can consume most CSV files found in the wild. To empirically evaluate…
• Using DuckDB in Streamlit (duckdb.org)
  We use a real-world railway dataset to demonstrate the integration of DuckDB and Streamlit, including the database connection management, t…
• Fully Local Data Transformation with dbt and DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  In this post, we implement data transformation and reverse ETL pipelines with DuckDB and dbt using the dbt-duckdb adapter.
• Preview: Amazon S3 Tables in DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  We are happy to announce a new preview feature that adds support for Apache Iceberg REST Catalogs, enabling DuckDB users to connect to Amaz…
• The DuckDB Local UI (duckdb.org)
  The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a local UI for DuckDB shipped as part of the ui extension.
• Parquet Bloom Filters in DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB now supports reading and writing Parquet Bloom filters.
• Prefix Aliases in SQL (duckdb.org)
  You can now put your aliases first in DuckDB's SQL dialect with a colon, e.g., SELECT a: 42;
• Gems of DuckDB 1.2 (duckdb.org)
  We highlight a few exciting features that were introduced in DuckDB 1.2.
• Planning AsOf Joins (duckdb.org)
  AsOf Joins are a great example of how DuckDB can choose different implementations for an expensive operation.
• Flying Through Windows (duckdb.org)
  Dive into the details of recent DuckDB windowing performance improvements.
• Reading and Writing Google Sheets in DuckDB (duckdb.org)
  Securely read from and write to Google Sheets directly in DuckDB using the GSheets community extension! For ad hoc querying, authentication…
• Catching up with Windowing (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB implements a number of modern windowing features, some of which are extensions to the SQL standard. This posts presents a few of the…
• Announcing DuckDB 1.2.0 (duckdb.org)
  The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 1.2.0, codenamed “Histrionicus”.
• Query Engines: Gatekeepers of the Parquet File Format (duckdb.org)
  Mainstream query engines do not support reading newer Parquet encodings, forcing systems like DuckDB to default to writing older encodings,…
• Vertical Stacking as the Relational Model Intended: UNION ALL BY NAME (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB allows vertical stacking of datasets by column name rather than position. This allows DuckDB to read files with schemas that evolve…
• DuckDB: Running TPC-H SF100 on Mobile Phones (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB runs on mobile platforms such as iOS and Android, and completes the TPC-H benchmark faster than state-of-the-art research systems on…
• DuckDB Node Neo Client (duckdb.org)
  The new DuckDB Node client, “Neo”, provides a powerful and friendly way to use your favorite database
• TPC-H on a Raspberry Pi (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB can run all TPC-H queries on a Raspberry Pi 5 board up to the 1,000 GiB dataset.
• 25 000 Stars on GitHub (duckdb.org)
  We have recently reached 25 000 stars on GitHub. We would like to use this occasion to stop and reflect about DuckDB's recent year and our…
• The DuckDB Avro Extension (duckdb.org)
  DuckDB now supports reading Avro files.
• CSV Files: Dethroning Parquet as the Ultimate Storage File Format (duckdb.org)
  Data analytics primarily uses two types of storage format files: human-readable text files like CSV and performance-driven binary files lik…
• DuckDB Tricks (duckdb.org)
  In this new installment of the DuckDB Tricks series, we present features for convenient handling of tables and performance optimization tip…
• Runtime-Extensible SQL Parsers Using PEG (duckdb.org)
  Despite their central role in processing queries, parsers have not received any noticeable attention in the data systems space. State-of-th…