--- title: "Jordan Tigani - MotherDuck Blog" description: "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." canonical: "https://motherduck.com/authors/jordan-tigani/" --- # Jordan Tigani Jordan Tigani's photo 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. ## 32 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS [2026/08/26 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/duckdb-amazon/) ### [DuckDB outgrows its nest](/blog/duckdb-amazon) Today Duck Labs, the developers of DuckDB, announced they are being acquired by Amazon. This is big news in the duck-iverse, and many people are wondering what this will mean for everyone’s favorite duck-powered database, MotherDuck. [2026/08/25 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/motherduck-acquires-tower/) ### [MotherDuck Acquires Tower: Agents Can Answer. Now They Can Build.](/blog/motherduck-acquires-tower) [54:22](/videos/duckdb-agent-moment-jordan-tigani/)[2026-06-18](/videos/duckdb-agent-moment-jordan-tigani/) ### [DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani)](/videos/duckdb-agent-moment-jordan-tigani/) Jordan Tigani helped build BigQuery, then left to bet that most data isn't actually big. Three years later, the agent era is making his case for him. In this conversation on The Analytics Engineering Podcast, he and host Tristan Handy talk about how MotherDuck and DuckDB fit together, why a single-node database makes more sense than you'd think for agents, and what it would actually look like to have a swarm of agents managing your data. YouTube AI, ML and LLMs Interview [28:00](/videos/duckdb-ai-modern-data-stack/)[2026-06-02](/videos/duckdb-ai-modern-data-stack/) ### [How MotherDuck Was Born: DuckDB, AI, and the Modern Data Stack | Jordan Tigani & Carly Kiser](/videos/duckdb-ai-modern-data-stack/) MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani on how AI is reshaping the modern data stack, why query latency now matters for agents, and the rise of open data formats. Interview AI, ML and LLMs MotherDuck Features Ecosystem [2026/05/12 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/duckdb-client-server/) ### [If It Quacks Like a Duck: the DuckDB Client-Server Protocol](/blog/duckdb-client-server) 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 great for the DuckDB community. [2026/04/15 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/water-town-agent-swarm-data-stack/) ### [Water Town: The Agent Swarm Data Stack](/blog/water-town-agent-swarm-data-stack) In a fully agentic world, will we still need analytics at all? A particularly unhinged example might offer some clues. [2026/04/03 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/consulting-the-oracle-claude-on-the-future-of-data/) ### [Consulting the Oracle: Claude on the Future of Data](/blog/consulting-the-oracle-claude-on-the-future-of-data) 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 Stack, data jobs, and the future of analytics. [2026/04/01 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/introducing-humandb/) ### [Introducing HumanDB: The World's First Human-Powered Analytical Database](/blog/introducing-humandb) [2026/03/23 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/future-casting-the-modern-data-stack/) ### [Future Casting the Modern Data Stack](/blog/future-casting-the-modern-data-stack) 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 might come next for ETL, BI, data warehouses, and the role of data engineers. [2026/02/19 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/duck-dive-and-answer/) ### [Duck, Dive, and Answer](/blog/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](/blog/analytics-agents/) ### [Building an answering machine](/blog/analytics-agents) 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](/videos/jordan-tigani-unbearable-bigness-small-data/) ### [The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data](/videos/jordan-tigani-unbearable-bigness-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](/videos/lies-damn-lies-and-benchmarks/) ### [Beyond the Benchmarks: A BigQuery Co-Founder's Guide to Evaluating Data Warehouse Performance](/videos/lies-damn-lies-and-benchmarks/) 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](/blog/faster-ducks/) ### [Faster Ducks](/blog/faster-ducks) Benchmarks, efficiency, and how MotherDuck just got nearly 20% faster. [2025-09-24](/videos/jordan-tigani-duckdb-at-scale/) ### [DuckDB At Scale](/videos/jordan-tigani-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](/videos/jordan-tigani-ai-analytics-hyper-tenancy/) ### [Building AI Applications That Need Analytics](/videos/jordan-tigani-ai-analytics-hyper-tenancy/) 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](/webinar/ducklake-livestream/) ### [What is DuckLake? A Simpler Data Lake & Warehouse with DuckDB](//webinar/ducklake-livestream) 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](/blog/ducklake-motherduck/) ### [A Duck Walks into a Lake](/blog/ducklake-motherduck) DuckDB introduces a new table format, what does it mean for the future of data lakes ? [2024/12/17 - Jordan Tigani, Boaz Leskes](/blog/separating-storage-compute-duckdb/) ### [Separating Storage and Compute in DuckDB](/blog/separating-storage-compute-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](/blog/read-scaling-preview/) ### [Introducing Read Scaling](/blog/read-scaling-preview) 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](/videos/big-data-is-dead-long-live-hot-data/)[2024-11-15](/videos/big-data-is-dead-long-live-hot-data/) ### [Big Data is Dead: Long Live Hot Data 🔥](/videos/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](/blog/duckdb-on-edge-raspberry-pi/) ### [Quacking at the Edge: DuckDB on Raspberry Pi](/blog/duckdb-on-edge-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](/videos/the-death-of-big-data-and-why-its-time-to-think-small-jordan-tigani-ceo-motherduck/)[2024-10-24](/videos/the-death-of-big-data-and-why-its-time-to-think-small-jordan-tigani-ceo-motherduck/) ### [Big Data is Dead: An Insider's Story on the Rise of Small Data](/videos/the-death-of-big-data-and-why-its-time-to-think-small-jordan-tigani-ceo-motherduck/) 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](/blog/pg_duckdb-postgresql-extension-for-duckdb-motherduck/) ### [Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA](/blog/pg_duckdb-postgresql-extension-for-duckdb-motherduck) 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](/blog/redshift-files-hunt-for-big-data/) ### [Redshift Files: The Hunt for Big Data](/blog/redshift-files-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](/videos/unfinished-business-re-inventing-modern-data-tools/) ### [Unfinished Business: Re-inventing 'modern' data tools](/videos/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](/blog/duckdb-text2sql-llm/) ### [AI That Quacks: Introducing DuckDB-NSQL, a LLM for DuckDB SQL](/blog/duckdb-text2sql-llm) Our first Text2SQL model release! [2024/01/18 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/perf-is-not-enough/) ### [Perf is not enough](/blog/perf-is-not-enough) Are database benchmarks still relevant ? Let's understand why it's a poor way to choose a database. [0:07:46](/videos/why-did-we-raise-now-ceo-backstage-call/)[2023-11-03](/videos/why-did-we-raise-now-ceo-backstage-call/) ### [Why did we raise now ? CEO Backstage Call 📞](/videos/why-did-we-raise-now-ceo-backstage-call/) Informal behind-the-scenes exploration with Co-Founder and CEO Jordan Tigani about what's happening at MotherDuck. YouTube Interview [2023/05/11 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/the-simple-joys-of-scaling-up/) ### [The Simple Joys of Scaling Up](/blog/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. [0:52:01](/videos/big-data-funeral-or-renaissance/)[2023-04-20](/videos/big-data-funeral-or-renaissance/) ### [Big Data: Funeral or Renaissance?](/videos/big-data-funeral-or-renaissance/) Jordan Tigani of MotherDuck and Aditya Parameswaran of Ponder debate whether Big Data is Dead or not, inspired by Jordan’s blog post. YouTube Stream [2023/02/07 - Jordan Tigani](/blog/big-data-is-dead/) ### [Big Data is Dead](/blog/big-data-is-dead) Big data is dead. Long live easy data. ## SUBSCRIBE ### Subscribe to MotherDuck Blog Also subscribe to other MotherDuck updates Submit