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- Union and MotherDuck's Orchestrated Approach to Advanced Analytics (Motherduck)Union and Mother Duck's Orchestrated Approach to Advanced Analytics - 13 min read Introduction Flyte, a workflow orchestration ecosystem, h…
- Why Semantic Layers Matter (Motherduck)Why Semantic Layers Matter — and How to Build One with DuckDB - 22 min read As data stacks mature, the semantic layer has become a critical…
- 5 Jev use cases for analytics, with real queries and datasets (Motherduck)Five prompt_jev() use cases on real data, with SQL you can rerun: AI agent traces, Hacker News sentiment, sales calls, cloud job postings a…
- DuckDB Wasm : What Happens When You Put a Database in Your Browser? (Motherduck)Explore DuckDB Wasm for fast, in-browser analytical SQL. Learn how to instantiate the JS API, query Parquet files, and export data to CSV w…
- Stop Paying the Complexity Tax | MotherDuck (Motherduck)My personal reflections from watching Jordan Tigani’s keynote "The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data" at Small Data SF.
- DuckDB vs Pandas vs Polars for Python Developers (Motherduck)But how does it fit within a Python environment? When talking to Python data folks at Pycon DE, it seems that there is a lot of confusion a…
- This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2024 (Motherduck)DuckDB news: Native Delta Lake joins Iceberg for lakehouse support. DuckDB-WASM embeds full analytics in browsers.
- This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: April 2025 (Motherduck)DuckDB news: Streaming support with new remote file caching. Community extensions expand real-time analytics.
- How to build an interactive, shareable sentiment analysis dashboard with MotherDuck & Fabi.ai (Motherduck)How to build an interactive, shareable sentiment analysis dashboard with Mother Duck & Fabi.ai - 12 min read Text analysis presents unique…
- PAINLESS GEOSPATIAL ANALYTICS USING MOTHERDUCK’S NATIVE INTEGRATION WITH GALILEO.WORLD (Motherduck)Discover how Galileo.world is revolutionizing geospatial analysis. Say goodbye to slow performance and complex setups.
- Exploring StackOverflow with DuckDB on MotherDuck (Part 2) (Motherduck)Exploring Stack Overflow with DuckDB on Mother Duck (Part 2) - 11 min read From Local to Cloud - Loading our Database into Mother Duck and…
- DuckDB Monthly #41: DuckDB internals course, FTS walkthrough, and a satellite pipeline with H3 + (Motherduck)DuckDB Monthly #41: Torsten's 15-week DuckDB internals course, Pete's full-text search walkthrough on a multi-GB email corpus, Mark's GCAT…
- Why CSV Files Won’t Die and How DuckDB Conquers Them (Motherduck)Why CSV Files Won’t Die and How DuckDB Conquers Them - 9 min read I've been working in the data field for a decade, across various companie…
- The Future of BI: Exploring the Impact of BI-as-Code Tools with DuckDB (Motherduck)The Future of BI: Exploring the Impact of BI-as-Code Tools with DuckDB - 9 min read An analytics dashboard is a software asset.
- This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2025 (Motherduck)DuckDB news: Tributary streams Kafka data to SQL queries. SQLRooms enables browser analytics via DuckDB-WASM.
- Specs Over Vibes: Consistent AI Results ft. Mark Freeman (Motherduck)Mark Freeman, Head of DevRel at Gable, shares his Spec-Driven Development workflow for producing high-quality, reproducible AI outcomes usi…
- What’s New: Streamlined User Management, Metadata, and UI Enhancements (Motherduck)December’s feature roundup is focused on improving the user experience on multiple fronts.
- Future Casting the Modern Data Stack (Motherduck)If the Modern Data Stack isn't yet dead, it's at least incredibly sleepy. AI is bringing the "long run" closer than ever — here's what migh…
- This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2023 (Motherduck)DuckDB news: Query 148TB of Hugging Face image data remotely. Awesome DuckDB resource collection launches.
- Instant SQL is here: Speedrun ad-hoc queries as you type | MotherDuck (Motherduck)Instant SQL is now in Preview in MotherDuck and the DuckDB Local UI. Bend reality with SQL superpowers to get real-time query results as yo…
- Structured memory management for AI Applications and AI Agents with DuckDB (Motherduck)Learn how to optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems with DuckDB, dlt, and Cognee to streamline data management and workflows…
- Why Use DuckDB for Analytics? (Motherduck)Fast aggregations, excellent SQL support, runs anywhere, provides simplified data access: cloud and local, works with your tools and framew…
- Build sub-second data applications with MotherDuck’s Wasm SDK (Motherduck)Learn how to use the MotherDuck WebAssembly (Wasm) SDK to solve the longstanding challenges of building and maintaining efficient, highly p…
- The Enterprise Case for DuckDB: 5 Key Categories and Why Use It (Motherduck)The Enterprise Case for DuckDB: 5 Key Categories and Why to Use it - 17 min read DuckDB has a significant share1 and is frequently featured…
- How to analyze SQLite databases in DuckDB (Motherduck)DuckDB is often referred to as the SQLite for analytics.
- DuckDB 1.3 Lands in MotherDuck: Performance Boosts, Even Faster Parquet, and Smarter SQL (Motherduck)DuckDB 1.3 has launched, with performance boosts, faster Parquet reads and writes, and new SQL syntax for ducking awesome analytics with fu…
- AI That Quacks: Introducing DuckDB-NSQL-7B, A LLM for DuckDB SQL (Motherduck)AI That Quacks: Introducing DuckDB-NSQL, a LLM for DuckDB SQL - 5 min read What does a database have to do with AI, anyway?
- Why REST and JDBC Are Killing Your Data Stack (Motherduck)Why REST and JDBC Are Killing Your Data Stack — Flight SQL to the Rescue - 8 min read Data pipelines today feel like an underground fight:…
- This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2024 (Motherduck)DuckDB news: Query Bluesky social data via SQL. DuckDB-WASM powers sql-workbench.com browser IDE.
- MotherDuck Skills: Teaching Your AI Agents to Do Analytics (Motherduck)MotherDuck Agent Skills is an open-source catalog that teaches AI coding agents how to work with MotherDuck: exploring schemas, writing Duc…
- Why does everybody hate databases? | MotherDuck (Motherduck)Interview with DuckDB Co-creator Hannes Mühleisen - 2 min read How it started During the 2 nd edition of the Duck Con in Brussels, I had th…
- Building a Text-to-SQL Agent with DuckDB, MotherDuck and LangChain (Motherduck)Learn how to build a text-to-SQL LLM and LangChain SQL agent with DuckDB and MotherDuck, including schema inspection, query checking, and s…
- DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : August 2026 (Motherduck)The August 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: giving every agent its own embedded DuckDB, the ADBC extension reaching 30+ external databases…
- Agents can sign up for MotherDuck (Motherduck)AI agents can now sign up for MotherDuck with a single API call - no forms, no credentials, no human in the loop (unless you want to be, of…
- MotherDuck's HQ Nest is Ready for the Flock (Motherduck)Mother Duck was founded with a distributed team around the globe. As we have expanded the employee flock, it has concentrated in four geogr…
- pg_duckdb beta release : Even faster analytics in Postgres | MotherDuck (Motherduck)pg_duckdb makes elephants fly, marking its first release.
- DuckDB Ecosystem: March 2025 (Motherduck)DuckDB news: v1.2 adds Google Sheets extension for SQL on spreadsheets. Duckberg queries Iceberg tables via Python.
- MotherDuck Now Supports DuckDB 1.2: Faster, Friendlier, Better Performance (Motherduck)DuckDB 1.2 has launched, with improvements in performance, the SQL experience, CSV handling, and scalability - all fully supported in Mothe…
- Flight Plans: Templates for AI-Native Data Pipelines (Motherduck)Build full data pipelines by prompting your AI agent, no Python required. MotherDuck Flights are perfect for data ingestion, transformation…
- MotherDuck Integrates with PlanetScale Postgres (Motherduck)Run analytics 200x faster on PlanetScale Postgres with MotherDuck integration. Keep millisecond transactions while pushing analytical queri…
- This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2023 (Motherduck)DuckDB news: MotherDuck launches managed cloud service with hybrid execution.
- DuckLake Architecture Deep Dive (Motherduck)It is significantly simpler and faster than Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake because it uses a SQL database for storing the catalog and metadat…
- This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2023 (Motherduck)DuckDB news: Hits 1 million monthly PyPI downloads. Modern Data Stack in a Box runs analytics on single machine.
- Building an Unstructured Data Pipeline: ETL with MotherDuck & Unstructured.io (Motherduck)Learn how to build an unstructured data pipeline. This guide covers ETL, chunking, and generating vector embeddings directly in MotherDuck…
- MotherDuck Window Functions (Motherduck)Window Functions in Motherduck: An Analytical Approach - 5 min read Introduction Data analytics requires sophisticated tools that can perfo…
- This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2025 (Motherduck)DuckDB news: QuackStore caching cuts query time from 49s to 3s.
- What If We Don't Need the Semantic Layer? (Motherduck)What if AI could discover your business logic by mining query history instead of requiring manual metric definitions?
- MotherDuck at Coalesce 2024: Your Ultimate Guide to Quack-tastic Fun! (Motherduck)Get ready to make a splash at Coalesce 2024! 🦆 MotherDuck is bringing the fun to Las Vegas, and we can't wait to see you there.
- We Built Our Employees a Wrapped—Using SQL and MotherDuck (Motherduck)We built a Spotify-style "Wrapped" for MotherDuck employees using our own platform. Discover the SQL queries, data tricks, and fun personas…
- Consulting the Oracle: Claude on the Future of Data (Motherduck)What does AI think its own impact will be on the data and analytics industry? I asked Claude to share its predictions on the Modern Data St…