22 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS
2026/02/19 - Jordan Tigani
Duck, Dive, and Answer
AI is eating the data stack. Introducing Dives, a new MotherDuck feature that lets AI agents build shareable, real-time data visualizations with composable SQL.
2025/12/17 - Jordan Tigani
Building an answering machine
Discover how MotherDuck's MCP server enables true self-service analytics through AI agents. Query data in plain English with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini—no SQL required.
2025-11-05
The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data
MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani shares why we built our data warehouse for small data first, not big data. Learn about designing for the bottom left quadrant, hypertenancy, and why scale doesn't define importance.
Talk
MotherDuck Features
Ecosystem
SQL
BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
2025-10-31
Beyond the Benchmarks: A BigQuery Co-Founder's Guide to Evaluating Data Warehouse Performance
Big Data is dead. Learn to evaluate data warehouse performance via Time-to-Insight and real costs, ignoring misleading petabyte-scale vendor benchmarks.
Stream
Interview
2025/10/28 - Jordan Tigani
Faster Ducks
Benchmarks, efficiency, and how MotherDuck just got nearly 20% faster.
2025-09-24
DuckDB At Scale
DuckDB is loved by SQL-ophiles for small data workloads. How do you make it scale? What happens when you feed it Big Data? What is DuckLake? This talk answers these questions from real-world experience running DuckDB in the cloud.
MotherDuck Features
SQL
Talk
BI & Visualization
Python
2025-09-10
Building AI Applications That Need Analytics
Jordan Tigani explores how AI applications can leverage analytics databases to answer complex questions. LLMs struggle with calculations and private data. Enter "Hyper-Tenancy" for isolated cloud instances.
AI, ML and LLMs
Short
SQL
MotherDuck Features
Talk
2025-06-17
What is DuckLake? A Simpler Data Lake & Warehouse with DuckDB
DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen joins MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani for an in-depth discussion about DuckLake, the new lakehouse format that's rethinking how we handle metadata and open table formats.
Interview
2025/05/28 - Jordan Tigani
A Duck Walks into a Lake
DuckDB introduces a new table format, what does it mean for the future of data lakes ?
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.
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.
25:18
2024-11-15
Big Data is Dead: Long Live Hot Data 🔥
Over the last decade, Big Data was everywhere. Let's set the record straight on what is and isn't Big Data. We have been consumed by a conversation about data volumes when we should focus more on the immediate task at hand.
Talk
YouTube
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.
59:07
2024-10-24
Big Data is Dead: An Insider's Story on the Rise of Small Data
Stop paying the Big Data Tax. Discover why 95% of workloads need Small Data strategies and how MotherDuck's scale-up architecture delivers faster, cheaper analytics.
YouTube
Interview
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.
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.
2024-05-01
Unfinished Business: Re-inventing 'modern' data tools
Watch Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck) and Colin Zima (Omni) for a 🦆 quackingly 🦆 candid discussion about what the last generation of data tools got right and wrong, and why they both think they can build something even better this time.
YouTube
BI & Visualization
Interview
2024/01/25 - Till Döhmen, Jordan Tigani
AI That Quacks: Introducing DuckDB-NSQL, a LLM for DuckDB SQL
Our first Text2SQL model release!
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.
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.
