Simplifying the Transformation Layer
Explore the latest transformation layer architectures and real-world uses, plus how MotherDuck utilizes DuckDB for cloud-scale transformation.
MotherDuck has landed in Europe
MotherDuck is now available in the AWS eu-central-1 region. Get started with fast, serverless analytics with full EU data residency.
MotherDuck EU Official Launch Partners
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Beyond BI: Building Data Apps and Customer-Facing Analytics
Interested in building a data app? Join MotherDuck and Codecentric to learn when to build one and how to launch it easily with MotherDuck.
Boosting Data Performance: Unlocking the Power of DuckDB in the Gold Layer
Join MotherDuck and Artefact for a discussion about how to achieve exceptional performance for gold layer analytics using DuckDB." this should fit the new card copy limits.
Duck-Flavored BI: Building an Efficient Data Stack
The urge to over-engineer is common. Join MotherDuck and Tasman Analytics for tips on resisting it, plus a hands-on example of MotherDuck in a streamlined data stack.
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2026/09/02 - Simon Späti
Context, Semantics, and Ontology: A Primer for the Agentic Era
A primer on the context layer, semantic layer, and ontology: what each term means, how they fit together, and why AI agents still need a human to decide what's true.
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.
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.