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2025/11/14 - Garrett O'Brien
Small Data SF 2025: the Recap!
Dive into a recap of the world's hottest efficiency-themed data conference, Small Data SF!
2025/11/12 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2025
DuckDB Monthly #35: DuckDB extensions, DuckLake, DataFrame, and more!
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2025/10/30 - Simon Späti
4 Senior Data Engineers Answer 10 Top Reddit Questions
A great panel answering the most voted/commented data questions on Reddit
2025/10/28 - Jordan Tigani
Faster Ducks
Benchmarks, efficiency, and how MotherDuck just got nearly 20% faster.
2025/10/09 - Alex Monahan, Garrett O'Brien
DuckDB 1.4.1 and DuckLake 0.3 Land in MotherDuck: New SQL Syntax, Iceberg Interoperability, and Performance Gains
MotherDuck now supports DuckDB 1.4.1 and DuckLake 0.3, with new SQL syntax, faster sorting, Iceberg interoperability, and more. Read on for the highlights from these major releases.
2025/10/08 - Mehdi Ouazza
Why Python Developers Need DuckDB (And Not Just Another DataFrame Library)
Understand why a database is much more than just a dataframe library
2025/10/07 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2025
DuckDB Monthly #34: DuckDB 1.4.0 LTS, 100× Spark benchmarks, official Docker image and more!
2025/09/24 - Garrett O'Brien, Sheila Sitaram
MotherDuck is Landing in Europe! Announcing our EU Region
Serverless analytics built on DuckDB, running entirely in the EU.
2025/09/09 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: September 2025
DuckDB Monthly #33: DuckDB 58× faster spatial joins, pg_duckdb 1.0, and 79% Snowflake cost savings
2025/09/09 - Patrick Garcia
PAINLESS GEOSPATIAL ANALYTICS USING MOTHERDUCK’S NATIVE INTEGRATION WITH GALILEO.WORLD
Discover how Galileo.world is revolutionizing geospatial analysis. Say goodbye to slow performance and complex setups. Analyze and visualize big data right in your browser.
2025/09/03 - Jelte Fennema-Nio, Jacob Matson
Announcing Pg_duckdb Version 1.0
PostgreSQL gets a DuckDB-flavored power-up for faster analytical queries without ever leaving Postgres.
2025/08/29 - Vasilije Markovic
DuckDB × cognee: Run SQL Analytics Right Beside Your Graph-Native RAG
SQL analytics and graph-native retrieval together, eliminating the trade-off between fast analytics and one-off RAG retrievals.
2025/08/22 - Jacob Matson
Nine Keyboard Shortcuts for SQL Flow State
Tired of clicking? Master 9 essential SQL keyboard shortcuts to achieve a true flow state and make your data analysis faster and more joyful. Learn to run queries, comment, format, and even use AI without leaving your keyboard.
2025/08/19 - Simon Späti
Why Semantic Layers Matter — and How to Build One with DuckDB
Learn what a semantic layer is, why it matters, and how to build a simple one with DuckDB and Ibis using just YAML and Python
2025/08/11 - Mehdi Ouazza
When Spark Meets DuckLake: Tooling You Know, Simplicity You Need
Learn how to combine Apache Spark’s scale with DuckLake’s simplicity to build a lakehouse with ACID, time travel, and schema evolution
2025/08/07 - Oli Dinov
Real-Time MySQL to MotherDuck Streaming with Streamkap: A Shift Left Architecture Guide
Build real-time MySQL to MotherDuck pipelines with Streamkap. Learn Shift Left architecture, streaming CDC, and how to replace batch ETL for instant analytics and customer dashboards.
