Motherduck · Blogs

Blogs listings from Motherduck on TechiSeek. 253 public listings.

• Making PySpark Code Faster with DuckDB (Motherduck)
  Apache Spark has been there for quite a while since its first release in 2014 and it’s a standard for data processing in the data world.
• DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter (Motherduck)
  DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : April 2026 - 8 min read HEY, FRIEND 👋 I hope you're doing well.
• MotherDuck lands on Tableau Cloud: Live, Fast Analytics Unleashed (Motherduck)
  Use MotherDuck to power your Tableau Cloud, Server, and Desktop dashboards.
• Faster health data analysis with MotherDuck & Preswald (Motherduck)
  From large raw datasets to interactive data app in minutes In this post, we'll explore how to leverage Mother Duck and Preswald's interacti…
• Introducing FixIt: an unreasonably effective AI error fixer for SQL (Motherduck)
  FixIt will correct mistakes in your SQL queries based on the schema and DuckDB syntax.
• DuckDB & Python : end-to-end data engineering project (Motherduck)
  DuckDB & Python : end-to-end data engineering project [1/3] - 13 min read DuckDB and Python ?
• Solving Advent of Code with DuckDB and dbt | MotherDuck (Motherduck)
  For the uninitiated, Advent of Code (AoC) is an advent calendar in the form of coding problems that runs from December 1-25.
• Non-Profits (Motherduck)
  Learn how DoSomething, the premier platform fueling young people to change the world and actively shape the future of their communities, de…
• OpenAI Just Made Analytics 10x Cheaper (Motherduck)
  Since OpenAI slashed the price of GPT 5.6 Luna by 80% this week, low latency AI-powered answers are finally feasible for less than half a p…
• The Surprising Truth About AI-Native Semantic Layers (Motherduck)
  Benchmark-maxxing DABstep to 100% and learning that an AI-native semantic layer isn't a description of your data — it's coupled to the mode…
• A Quack-Packed Fall (Motherduck)
  MotherDuck spent fall on the conference circuit across Europe and the US. Here's what we presented and the pattern that emerged in nearly e…
• Build a dashboard to monitor your python package usage with DuckDB & MotherDuck (Motherduck)
  Build a dashboard to monitor your python package usage with DuckDB & Mother Duck - 8 min read When building open-source projects, it's esse…
• If It Quacks Like a Duck: DuckDB Gets a Client-Server Protocol (Motherduck)
  DuckDB Labs announced Quack, a client-server protocol for DuckDB. Here's why we're excited, what it means for MotherDuck, and why it's so g…
• Unstructured Document Analysis with Tensorlake and MotherDuck (Motherduck)
  Learn how to query unstructured documents with friendly SQL!
• Swimming in Google Sheets with MotherDuck (Motherduck)
  Learn how to use DuckDB's read_csv functionality to easily load data from Google Sheets into MotherDuck for Analysis!
• Duck and Roll: MotherDuck is Open for All With $100M in the Nest! (Motherduck)
  Duck and Roll: Mother Duck is Open for All With $100 M in the Nest - 5 min read Three months ago we announced Mother Duck to the world unde…
• Simplifying IoT Analytics with MotherDuck (Motherduck)
  Exploring the sweet spot between simplicity and capability in data systems, one IoT hackathon at a time.
• Vector Technologies for AI: Extending Your Existing Data Stack (Motherduck)
  Understand when to use a vector database and how it differs from vector search engines.
• Plan Mode All the Time, Substrait over SQL, and the End of the DE Role ft. Chris Riccomini (Motherduck)
  Chris Riccomini on using AI for data engineering: correctness in financial data, why LLMs should speak Substrait over SQL, the Ralph Loop f…
• What Makes a Great Dive? The DiveMaxxing Winners (Motherduck)
  The DiveMaxxing winners, and what 48 community Dives taught us about what separates a great data visualization from one that just looks pol…
• Just Released: Hybrid Query Processing Paper at CIDR 2024 (Motherduck)
  MotherDuck released its paper on Hybrid Query Processing at the Conference on Innovative Data (systems) Research [CIDR].
• AI Writes the Semantic Layer (Motherduck)
  We proved that AI agents could build a semantic layer. The more interesting result was that the semantic layer itself became disposable.
• How We're Making Analytics Ducking Awesome (Motherduck)
  MotherDuck on Podcasts, in the News and at conferences.
• Introducing Flights: Agent-Native Ingest in MotherDuck (Motherduck)
  Build, deploy, and schedule Python data pipelines from a prompt, a SQL function, or the MotherDuck UI.
• Developer Dad Does Disney: Vacationing in the Personal Software Era (Motherduck)
  While standing in line at Disney World, a developer dad built a custom data app to pick the perfect next ride.
• This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2022 (Motherduck)
  DuckDB news: Query 250GB Common Crawl data locally via HTTPFS.
• Context belongs in the warehouse (Motherduck)
  Introducing Guides, MotherDuck's context layer for AI agents. More accurate queries, lower token spend, and distributed context for your en…
• Small Data SF: The Agenda is now live…with *NEW* hands-on workshops (Motherduck)
  We had such an awesome response to Small Data SF after launch: It was so great that we decided to add an additional day of hands-on worksho…
• This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2025 (Motherduck)
  DuckDB news: PyIceberg enables local Iceberg catalogs in Python. Zero-egress data sharing via Cloudflare R2.
• Why web developers should care about analytical databases (Motherduck)
  Why web developers should care about analytical databases - 6 min read If you’re building web apps—whether frontend or backend—you’re proba…
• This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2024 (Motherduck)
  DuckDB news: v1.0.0 Snow Duck is production-ready. Query 150,000+ Hugging Face datasets directly.
• Secoda x MotherDuck: Introducing the Newest Member of the Modern Duck Stack 🦆 (Motherduck)
  The MotherDuck x Secoda integration allows you to enable data producers and consumers, regardless of technical ability, to easily locate an…
• Analyze Your X (Twitter) Data with Node.js and DuckDB (Motherduck)
  Learn to use Node.js and DuckDB to query your X data!
• Git for Data Applied (Motherduck)
  Git for Data Applied: Comparing Git-like Tools That Separate Metadata from Data - 19 min read Continuing from Part 1, where we learned what…
• I Made Cursor + AI Write Perfect SQL. Here's the Exact Setup (Motherduck)
  Stop debugging AI-generated SQL queries. Learn the exact Cursor + MotherDuck setup that makes AI write working SQL on the first try, with s…
• Beyond Storing Data: How to Use DuckDB, MotherDuck and Kestra for ETL (Motherduck)
  Beyond Storing Data: How to Use DuckDB, Mother Duck and Kestra for ETL - 8 min read DuckDB is not just a database — it’s also a data transf…
• This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: September 2023 (Motherduck)
  DuckDB news: v0.9 adds Azure storage and Iceberg support. MotherDuck raises Series B, opens to public.
• How we Saved 95% on Log Processing with Bacalhau and MotherDuck (Motherduck)
  We stopped sifting our log data and started generating speedy logging insights to realize 95% in cost savings by pre-processing logs with B…
• CSV vs Parquet Benchmark: 6.8x Smaller, 22-60x Faster (Motherduck)
  Parquet/ZSTD is 6.8x smaller than CSV and 22-60x faster on 11.2M NYC taxi rows in DuckDB. Full method, result tables, and reproduction comm…
• You asked, We Listened: Sharing, UI and Performance Improvements (Motherduck)
  You asked, We Listened: Sharing, UI and Performance Improvements - 2 min read Hello all - this is Doug, the new Head of Produck at Mother D…
• Announcing Pg_duckdb Version 1.0 (Motherduck)
  PostgreSQL gets a DuckDB-flavored power-up for faster analytical queries without ever leaving Postgres.
• Vibe Coding Is Dangerous, Agentic Engineering Isn't ft. Wes McKinney (Motherduck)
  Wes McKinney, creator of pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow, shares how he works with AI coding agents: spec-driven workflows with super…
• Announcing DuckLake 1.0 on MotherDuck (Motherduck)
  MotherDuck now supports DuckLake 1.0, the open table lakehouse format designed for simplicity and low latency.
• Analyze Data in Azure with DuckDB (Motherduck)
  So, you've got some data in Azure blob storage, and you want to run some queries? You can do that with DuckDB or Mother Duck!
• A Beginner’s Guide to Geospatial with DuckDB Spatial and MotherDuck (Motherduck)
  A Beginner’s Guide to Geospatial with DuckDB Spatial and Mother Duck - 22 min read Geospatial data is everywhere in modern analytics.
• AI Agent Analytics with Vercel & MotherDuck (Motherduck)
  Track AI agent traffic that bypasses your web analytics. Stream Vercel Log Drains into MotherDuck to see how ChatGPT, Claude, and other age…
• DuckDB × cognee: Run SQL Analytics Right Beside Your Graph-Native RAG (Motherduck)
  SQL analytics and graph-native retrieval together, eliminating the trade-off between fast analytics and one-off RAG retrievals.
• Your Obsidian Vault Can Now Run SQL (and Your Agent Can Read It) (Motherduck)
  Run DuckDB SQL inside your Obsidian notes and freeze the results as plain markdown tables, local files or MotherDuck cloud data alike.
• Self-hosting DuckDB: the road to production (Motherduck)
  A practical map of self-hosting DuckDB, from a laptop to a full data platform: the architectures people actually build at each stage, bench…
• The Simple Joys of Scaling Up (Motherduck)
  Explores why scale-out became so dominant, whether those rationales still hold, and some joyful advantages of scale-up architecture.