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DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : September 2026

2026/09/16 - Simon Späti

DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : September 2026

The September 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: DuckLabs joins AWS and MotherDuck acquires Tower, DuckDB v2.0-alpha lands, table functions in pure Java, bulk loads into SQL Server, Zarr stores as SQL tables, an infinite canvas for your data, plus a community spotlight on Vladimir Gribanov.

Agents Don’t Query Like Humans Do

2026/09/02 - Alex Monahan

Agents Don’t Query Like Humans Do

We analyzed a slice of MotherDuck query history and found agents ran 29 times more queries than humans last month, a gap that has roughly doubled every month. The average organization now has twice as many agents as human users. Agents are the dominant consumers of the data platform, and our systems can't afford to stay the same.

Agentic SQL for Free with Qwen3.8 27B and DuckDB

2026/08/28 - Alex Monahan

Agentic SQL for Free with Qwen3.8 27B and DuckDB

If your laptop has 16GB of RAM, your agent can write SQL locally for free with Qwen3.8 27B. On the DABstep SQL benchmark, Qwen beat GPT 5.6 Luna and cost under 50 cents in electricity, over 17x less. Add DuckDB and you have a data analyst that runs on your own machine. This post covers the benchmark results and walks through the setup, including which quantized model to download for your laptop.

DuckDB outgrows its nest

2026/08/26 - Jordan Tigani

DuckDB outgrows its nest

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.

AI Writes the Semantic Layer

2026/08/20 - Jacob Matson, Alex Monahan

AI Writes the Semantic Layer

We proved that AI agents could build a semantic layer. The more interesting result was that the semantic layer itself became disposable. Q&A pairs are unreasonably effective at capturing business intent and give agents something concrete to iterate with. If code can be regenerated, where should your company accrue knowledge?