To Every Agent Its Own Database
Joe proposes an agent-native architecture where each agent leverages its own embedded DuckDB instance for direct, peer-to-peer analytical data exchange, moving computation closer to the agents.
DuckDB News & Updates
The latest DuckDB releases, ecosystem updates, SQL tips, and data engineering guides.
August 2026
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : August 2026
Announcing the DuckDB ADBC Extension
The new DuckDB ADBC extension enables DuckDB to connect directly to over 30 external databases via the Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) API, leveraging Apache Arrow for efficient data transfer.
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
A big one for the upcoming DuckDB v2.0 (Fall 2026), introducing asynchronous I/O for Parquet and CSV files, significantly improving query performance by better utilizing remote storage bandwidth.
Webduck: A self-hosted DuckDB-as-a-Service server with REST API and Web UI
WebDuck is designed for web hosting providers who want to offer their customers a ready-to-use administration interface for DuckDB databases and data analytics out of the box, just like the database admin tools that come with any hosting package.
2026/06/12 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : June 2026
The June 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: a local-first ETL/ELT studio, the Quack client-server protocol and its OAuth layer, DuckLake inlining, DuckDB internals, MotherDuck Flights for agent-native ingest, plus a community spotlight on Ryan Dolley.
2026/04/17 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : April 2026
DuckLake 1.0 ships, Lance adds vector search, Rust-native extension
2026/03/13 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter – March 2026
SQL Transpilers, VS Code Extensions, Dives and more
2026/03/13 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter – March 2026
SQL Transpilers, VS Code Extensions, Dives and more
2026/02/11 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter – February 2026
MSSQL Extension, Vortex File Format & 2TB Memory Benchmarks
2026/01/17 - Simon Späti
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2026
DuckDB news: Iceberg extension adds full DML (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE). Process 1TB in 30 seconds. Query data via AI agents with MCP server. TypeScript macros for APIs.
2025/12/10 - Simon Späti
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2025
DuckDB news: v1.4 adds AES-256 encryption. DuckLake brings ACID-compliant lakehouse with time-travel queries. Gaggle extension queries Kaggle datasets directly via SQL.
2025/11/12 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2025
DuckDB news: QuackStore caching cuts query time from 49s to 3s. Infera runs ONNX ML models in SQL. 127 community extensions analyzed. DuckLake architecture explained.
2025/10/07 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2025
DuckDB news: v1.4.0 LTS brings AES-256 encryption, MERGE statements, and Iceberg writes. 100x faster than Spark on local Parquet. Official Docker images released.
2025/09/09 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: September 2025
DuckDB news: Spatial joins 58x faster via R-tree indexing. pg_duckdb 1.0 adds OLAP analytics to PostgreSQL. One team cut Snowflake costs 79% using DuckDB caching.
2025/08/07 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: August 2025
DuckDB news: 50.7% YoY developer growth. DuckLake v0.2 adds credential secrets. BigQuery extension hits 21.7k weekly downloads. Vector search enables RAG applications.
2025/06/06 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2025
DuckDB news: DuckLake combines catalog and table format with ACID metadata in SQL. Radio extension adds WebSocket and Redis Pub/Sub. Top CSV benchmark results.
2025/05/08 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: May 2025
DuckDB news: Metabase driver queries Parquet files directly. FlockMTL integrates LLMs into SQL workflows. Doom clone runs in DuckDB-WASM. Spatial wins top honors.
2025/03/07 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: March 2025
DuckDB news: v1.2 adds Google Sheets extension for SQL on spreadsheets. Duckberg queries Iceberg tables via Python. Smallpond sorts 110TB in 30 min using Ray.
2025/02/09 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2025
DuckDB news: DuckCon #6 runs TPC-H SF300 on Raspberry Pi. SQL/PGQ graph queries 10-100x faster than Neo4j. Arrow Flight enables concurrent read/write access.
2025/01/10 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2025
DuckDB news: PyIceberg enables local Iceberg catalogs in Python. Zero-egress data sharing via Cloudflare R2. SQLFlow streams Kafka and Bluesky data with DuckDB SQL.
2024/12/11
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2024
DuckDB news: Query Bluesky social data via SQL. LLMs clean CRM data inside queries. Google Sheets extension launches. DuckDB-WASM powers sql-workbench.com browser IDE.
2024/11/04 - Simon Späti
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2024
DuckDB news: HTTP extension queries REST APIs in SQL. Unity Catalog integration via dbt. Pivot tables extension. Drug database demo processes 6M records per minute.
2024/10/04 - Simon Späti
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2024
DuckDB news: v1.1 hits 6M monthly Python downloads. Spark API compatibility layer added. Build RAG apps with GPT-4o embeddings. Extensions reach 17M monthly downloads.