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2025/10/09 - Hoyt Emerson

Tech Review: DuckLake - From Parquet to Powerhouse

Hoyt Emerson, The Full Data Stack, explores how this sleek lakehouse solution delivers enterprise grade features with startling simplicity

2025/10/06 - Carnegie Mellon Database Group

[Future Data] DuckLake: Learning from Cloud Data Warehouses to Build a Robust “Lakehouse”

Jordan spoke at the Carnegie Mellon Database Group about how metadata storage enables query performance and helps provide transactional semantics in modern data warehouses. He also talked about how the metadata story in popular open data formats take us several steps backwards. He sahred about how DuckLake makes metadata access work more closely to a traditional data warehouse, which solves a lot of problems

2025/10/06 - The Average Engineer

Is MotherDuck with DuckDB the FASTEST Lake House Solution Ever?

Wanting to learn about DuckDB and MotherDuck, is it the fastest and best Lake House option on the market? Can DuckDB and MotherDuck process large datasets? Find Out!

2025/10/04 - Hoyt Emerson

Finally Trying MotherDuck (DuckDB Data Warehouse)…I Did Not Expect This! 🦆

I just gave MotherDuck (DuckDB Data Warehouse) the attention it deserved and wow, I wasn’t ready for what happened. This is a full reaction video where I explore it live, test how it works, and share my honest surprises along the way. If you’re into data engineering, analytics, or just curious about the next wave of lightweight cloud data tools, you’ll want to stick around for this one.

2025/10/02 - Paul Galotto

MotherDuck Explained: How the Next-Gen AI & Analytics Solution Fits Into Your Data Stack

At Artefact, we constantly explore emerging technologies to separate real innovation from passing hype. In today’s crowded data landscape, spotting the hidden gems that can truly make a difference is both a challenge and a thrill. MotherDuck is one of those promising technologies. When its arrival on the European market was announced at Big Data London and our partnership as of September 24th, we knew what we had to do: put it to the test, evaluate its potential, and share our insights.

2025/09/30 - Codecentric

Your First Data Analysis with MotherDuck and DuckDB: From CSV to Insights in 5 Minutes

In this post, we'll explore how MotherDuck, powered by DuckDB, revolutionizes the way you interact with your data, particularly when dealing with CSV files. You'll learn how to quickly parse and filter even large datasets directly from your local machine, using familiar SQL syntax, and without the need for a dedicated server or extensive configuration. Get ready to transform your raw CSV data into valuable insights in a matter of minutes!

2025/09/22 - Daniel Beach

Honest review of MotherDuck

...the MotherDuck signup flow is incredible. It’s a beautiful UI, step by step, snappy. Everything you would expect from something built in this century, and bodes well for the things we have yet to do. One of the first things you will notice is the nice clean layout, one that doesn’t leave you wondering where to click next or what to explore.

2025/09/22 - Zach Wilson

DuckDB benchmarked against Spark

Instead of guessing whether Spark or DuckDB is faster, we built out some tests datasets with increasing number of rows and then time query benchmarks between both DuckDB and Spark to illustrate just how fast DuckDB is

2024/10/28 - Ruben @ Stacksync

Introducing the Stacksync connector for MotherDuck

Data workflows can get messy with constant back-and-forth between local analytics and cloud solutions. But what if you could have the best of both worlds: lightweight, in-process analytics and scalable cloud power? That's where Stacksync's new MotherDuck connector comes in, so you can quit ducking around with complex setups.

2024/07/27 - Sanjeev Mohan

It Depends Podcast: Jordan Tigani on how DuckDB and MotherDuck power Small Data

Jordan Tigani shares why he chose DuckDB as the foundation for MotherDuck. As a founding member of Google’s BigQuery, Jordan’s transition from Big Data to Small Data is particularly fascinating. It's quite the plot twist! Jordan takes us on a geeky joyride through the database's internals and its unique differentiators. Beyond the technical deep dive, we also explore the intriguing backstory behind the quirky name, MotherDuck.

2024/06/18 - Greta Reich

SFGATE: Ducks Wandering San Francisco

The SFGATE local news team writes about our duck mascots walking around Moscone in celebration of the Snowflake Summit, Data and AI Summit and the MotherDuck General Availability (GA) launch.

2024/06/11 - MotherDuck

PR Newswire: MotherDuck Announces General Availability

MotherDuck, builder of a serverless, easy to use data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB, today announced the general availability of MotherDuck, providing the 99% of users who do not need a complex data infrastructure with the ability to use DuckDB's simplicity at scale. DuckDB 1.0, which was recently announced by DuckDB Foundation and Labs, provides a scale-up approach to analytics that is faster, cheaper and more user-friendly than distributed architectures.

2024/05/06 - Tomasz Tunguz

Office Hours with Tomasz Tunguz: Modern Data Architectures

Tom Tunguz & Lauren DeMeuse from Theory Ventures join Jordan Tigani, CEO and Co-Founder of MotherDuck. In this discussion, we cover the evolution of enterprise data needs and database architectures, the importance of ease of use, and the value of levity and personality in your brand.

2024/04/23 - Jordan Tigani

Compass Tech Summit: Data Analytics in the Post Big-Data Era

Jordan Tigani, CEO of MotherDuck, speaks about data analytics and MotherDuck in an era where Big Data is Dead.

2024/04/22 - CRN

The Coolest Data Analytics Companies Of The 2024 Big Data 100

CRN, the Channel Company, names MotherDuck one of the coolest data analytics companies of the year.

2024/03/26 - GeekWire

Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

MotherDuck is chosen as a finalist in the GeekWire "Next Tech Titan" awards. This is an annual event recognizing the top innovators and companies in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

2024/03/20 - Brian @ Cube

Data App Monetization Success

Explore how to use Astrodata, MotherDuck, and Cube’s combined data stack to build embedded analytics. The speakers in this webinar underscored the importance of several key characteristics for successful data monetization strategies: analytics, monetary value, user convenience, interactivity, and real-time capabilities. The presentation of the MDCuRe stack with MotherDuck, Cube, and React illustrated how developers stand to benefit from reduced unit costs and better ease of use.

2024/03/19 - Yevgeny @ CloudQuery

Building Local and Serverless ELT(ETL) pipelines with CloudQuery and MotherDuck

In this blog post we will walk through building an ELT pipeline using CloudQuery and DuckDB locally and then how to run the same configuration and pipeline with CloudQuery Cloud and MotherDuck (DuckDB Cloud version). One cool thing about CloudQuery and DuckDB is that both of them are very easy to run locally which makes it easy to develop and debug before running in the cloud which can save time on feedback loops and surging cloud costs of compute, data, and egress - especially for development purposes.