Pedro is a Post-Doc based in Amsterdam and a member of the Database Architecture group at CWI and currently as working as Chief of Operations at DuckDB Labs. You can find him on Twitter [@holanda_pe](https://twitter.com/holanda_pe) [Learn more about Pedro](https://pdet.github.io/)
The DuckDB team recently announced DuckDB 0.7.0! This new release introduces JSON ingestion through read_json, partitioned Parquet and CSV export, attaching multiple DuckDB databases in the same instance, SQLite storage backend, UPSERTs, LATERAL and POSITIONAL joins, improved Python APIs, better compression and more. The DuckDB community has clearly been heads down coding! [Download and Install 0.7.0](https://duckdb.org/docs/installation/index)
In this talk at FOSDEM 2023, Pedro talks about how DuckDB fits perfectly inside the Python ecosystem and makes a cool demo at the end of the talk using DuckDB, Pandas, and PySpark.
In this video, Tabular’s team demonstrated the new features of PyIceberg 0.2.1. If you prefer the article, here is the complete write-up on Medium.
A very interesting article from Graham Wetzler about he used DuckDB and Python to solve some of the Advent of Code challenges.
According to the Vantage’s team: from simple reads to complex writes and data ingestion they found that DuckDB was between 4X and 200X faster than Postgres for this use case.
In this video, Mark Needham teaches us how to create data visualizations on the command line using YouPlot, DuckDB, and a bit of Pandas.
In this interesting article, Pedram Navid explains how to set up a streaming Data pipeline with the help of Striim (an enterprise-grade CDC platform) and DuckDB.
In this article, Ryan develops a simple way how to generate fake data with Python and upload it to DuckDB.
The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Pedram Navid, Owner of West Marin Data and frequent contributor to substack. During the episode, Pedram discusses the modern data stack and its complexities, modern tooling, early-stage startups, and more.
Now available in the latest 0.7.0 release. Thanks to Alex Monahan for the tip on Twitter.
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