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- What's New in the Vector Similarity Search Extension? (duckdb.org)DuckDB is another step closer to becoming a vector database! In this post, we show the new performance optimizations implemented in the vec…
- Driving CSV Performance: Benchmarking DuckDB with the NYC Taxi Dataset (duckdb.org)DuckDB's benchmark suite now includes the NYC Taxi Benchmark. We explain how our CSV reader performs on the Taxi Dataset and provide steps…
- Fast Top N Aggregation and Filtering with DuckDB (duckdb.org)Find the top N values or filter to the latest N rows more quickly and easily with the N parameter in the min, max, min_by, and max_by aggre…
- Optimizers: The Low-Key MVP (duckdb.org)The query optimizer is an important part of any analytical database system as it provides considerable performance improvements compared to…
- Analytics-Optimized Concurrent Transactions (duckdb.org)DuckDB employs unique analytics-optimized optimistic multi-version concurrency control techniques. These allow DuckDB to perform large-scal…
- Analyzing Open Government Data with duckplyr (duckdb.org)We use the duckplyr R library to clean and analyze an Open Data set published by the government of New Zealand.
- DuckDB User Survey Analysis (duckdb.org)We share the findings from a survey of 500+ DuckDB users.
- DuckDB in Python in the Browser with Pyodide, PyScript, and JupyterLite (duckdb.org)Run DuckDB in an in-browser Python environment to enable simple querying on remote files, interactive documentation, and easy to use traini…
- Creating a SQL-Only Extension for Excel-Style Pivoting in DuckDB (duckdb.org)Easily create sharable extensions using only SQL macros that can apply to any table and any columns. We demonstrate the power of this capab…
- Announcing DuckDB 1.1.0 (duckdb.org)The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 1.1.0, codenamed “Eatoni”.
- DuckDB Community Extensions (duckdb.org)DuckDB extensions can now be published as DuckDB Community Extensions. The repository makes it easier for users to install extensions using…
- Friendly Lists and Their Buddies, the Lambdas (duckdb.org)DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and eas…
- Changing Data with Confidence and ACID (duckdb.org)Transactions are key features in database management systems and are also beneficial for data analysis workloads. DuckDB supports fully ACI…
- Memory Management in DuckDB (duckdb.org)DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and eas…
- Benchmarking Ourselves over Time at DuckDB (duckdb.org)In the last 3 years, DuckDB has become 3-25× faster and can analyze ~10× larger datasets all on the same hardware.
- Command Line Data Processing: Using DuckDB as a Unix Tool (duckdb.org)DuckDB's CLI client is portable to many platforms and architectures. It handles CSV files conveniently and offers users the same rich SQL s…
- 20 000 Stars on GitHub (duckdb.org)DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and eas…
- Native Delta Lake Support in DuckDB (duckdb.org)DuckDB now has native support for Delta Lake, an open-source lakehouse framework, with the delta extension.
- Analyzing Railway Traffic in the Netherlands (duckdb.org)We use a real-world railway dataset to demonstrate some of DuckDB's key features, including querying different file formats, connecting to…
- Announcing DuckDB 1.0.0 (duckdb.org)The DuckDB team is very happy to announce that today we’re releasing DuckDB version 1.0.0, codename “Snow Duck” (anas nivis).
- Access 150k+ Datasets from Hugging Face with DuckDB (duckdb.org)DuckDB can now read data from Hugging Face via the hf:// prefix.
- duckplyr: dplyr Powered by DuckDB (duckdb.org)The new R package duckplyr translates the dplyr API to DuckDB's execution engine.
- Vector Similarity Search in DuckDB (duckdb.org)This blog post shows a preview of DuckDB's new vss extension, which introduces support for HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds) index…
- 42.parquet (duckdb.org)A 42 kB Parquet file can contain over 4 PB of data.
- No Memory? No Problem. External Aggregation in DuckDB (duckdb.org)Since the 0.9.0 release, DuckDB’s fully parallel aggregate hash table can efficiently aggregate over many more groups than fit in memory.
- SQL Gymnastics: Bending SQL into Flexible New Shapes (duckdb.org)Combining multiple features of DuckDB’s friendly SQL allows for highly flexible queries that can be reused across tables.
- Dependency Management in DuckDB Extensions (duckdb.org)While core DuckDB has zero external dependencies, building extensions with dependencies is now very simple, with built-in support for vcpkg…
- Announcing DuckDB 0.10.0 (duckdb.org)The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.10.0). This release is named Fusca after the Velvet scoter native to Euro…
- Multi-Database Support in DuckDB (duckdb.org)DuckDB can attach MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite databases in addition to databases stored in its own format. This allows data to be read into…
- Extensions for DuckDB-Wasm (duckdb.org)DuckDB-Wasm users can now load DuckDB extensions, allowing them to run extensions in the browser.
- Even Friendlier SQL with DuckDB (duckdb.org)DuckDB continues to push the boundaries of SQL syntax to both simplify queries and make more advanced analyses possible. Highlights include…
- DuckDB's CSV Sniffer: Automatic Detection of Types and Dialects (duckdb.org)DuckDB is primarily focused on performance, leveraging the capabilities of modern file formats. At the same time, we also pay attention to…
- Announcing DuckDB 0.9.0 (duckdb.org)DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and eas…
- DuckDB ADBC – Zero-Copy Data Transfer via Arrow Database Connectivity (duckdb.org)DuckDB has added support for Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC), an API standard that enables efficient data ingestion and retrieval from d…
- From Waddle to Flying: Quickly Expanding DuckDB's Functionality with Scalar Python UDFs (duckdb.org)DuckDB now supports vectorized Scalar Python User Defined Functions (UDFs). By implementing Python UDFs, users can easily expand the functi…
- Correlated Subqueries in SQL (duckdb.org)DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and eas…
- Updates to the H2O.ai db-benchmark! (duckdb.org)The H2O.ai db-benchmark has been updated with new results. In addition, the AWS EC2 instance used for benchmarking has been changed to a c6…
- DuckDB's AsOf Joins: Fuzzy Temporal Lookups (duckdb.org)DuckDB supports AsOf Joins – a way to match nearby values. They are especially useful for searching event tables for temporal analytics.
- Introducing DuckDB for Swift (duckdb.org)DuckDB now has a native Swift API. DuckDB on mobile here we go!
- 10 000 Stars on GitHub (duckdb.org)DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and eas…
- PostGEESE? Introducing The DuckDB Spatial Extension (duckdb.org)DuckDB now has an official Spatial extension to enable geospatial processing.
- JupySQL Plotting with DuckDB (duckdb.org)duckdb-post
- Shredding Deeply Nested JSON, One Vector at a Time (duckdb.org)We recently improved DuckDB's JSON extension so JSON files can be directly queried as if they were tables.
- The Return of the H2O.ai Database-like Ops Benchmark (duckdb.org)We've resurrected the H2O.ai database-like ops benchmark with up to date libraries and plan to keep re-running it.
- Announcing DuckDB 0.7.0 (duckdb.org)DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and eas…
- Modern Data Stack in a Box with DuckDB (duckdb.org)A fast, free, and open-source Modern Data Stack (MDS) can now be fully deployed on your laptop or to a single machine using the combination…
- Lightweight Compression in DuckDB (duckdb.org)DuckDB supports efficient lightweight compression that is automatically used to keep data size down without incurring high costs for compre…
- Announcing DuckDB 0.6.0 (duckdb.org)DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and eas…
- Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB (duckdb.org)DuckDB can now directly query tables stored in PostgreSQL and speed up complex analytical queries without duplicating data.
- Persistent Storage of Adaptive Radix Trees (ART) in DuckDB (duckdb.org)DuckDB uses Adaptive Radix Tree (ART) Indexes to enforce constraints and to speed up query filters. Up to this point, indexes were not pers…