Jordan Tigani

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Jordan Tigani

Founder & CEO

Jordan joins us from SingleStore where he was Chief Product Officer. Previously he was a product leader, engineering leader and founding engineer on Google BigQuery.

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Separating Storage and Compute in DuckDB

2024/12/17 - Jordan Tigani, Boaz Leskes

Separating Storage and Compute in DuckDB

Why separate storage and compute in DuckDB, how we do it in MotherDuck to enable sharing and future work.

Introducing Read Scaling

2024/12/04 - Jordan Tigani

Introducing Read Scaling

Read Scaling is now in preview! Read Scaling improves DuckDB SQL query performance by scaling out to multiple DuckDB instances, known as Read Scaling replicas. It is useful to speed up BI dashboards and data apps significantly.

Quacking at the Edge: DuckDB on Raspberry Pi

2024/11/07 - Jordan Tigani

Quacking at the Edge: DuckDB on Raspberry Pi

Using MotherDuck’s Dual Query execution on a Raspberry Pi to play a quack sound when users sign up for our service.

Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA

2024/08/15 - Jordan Tigani, Brett Griffin

Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA

Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension: You can have your analytics and transact them too with pg_duckdb by DuckDB Labs, MotherDuck, Hydra, Neon and Microsoft.

Redshift Files: The Hunt for Big Data

2024/08/07 - Jordan Tigani

Redshift Files: The Hunt for Big Data

Jordan Tigani revisits his popular Big Data is Dead blog post with analysis of the data from the Redshift TPC is Not Enough paper.

Perf is not enough

2024/01/18 - Jordan Tigani

Perf is not enough

Are database benchmarks still relevant ? Let's understand why it's a poor way to choose a database.

The Simple Joys of Scaling Up

2023/05/11 - Jordan Tigani

The Simple Joys of Scaling Up

Explores why scale-out became so dominant, whether those rationales still hold, and some joyful advantages of scale-up architecture.

Big Data is Dead

2023/02/07 - Jordan Tigani

Big Data is Dead

Big data is dead. Long live easy data.

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