Do AI Agents Need a Semantic Layer?Livestream August 26
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2026/08/25 - Paul Sawers at The New Stack
MotherDuck became Tower’s biggest customer “almost overnight.” Now the data warehouse company is buying Tower to bring its pipeline runtime in-house.
2026/06/10 - Paul Gillin at SiliconANGLE
Hoyt Emerson, The Full Data Stack, explores how this sleek lakehouse solution delivers enterprise grade features with startling simplicity
2025/10/09 - Hoyt Emerson
Hoyt Emerson, The Full Data Stack, explores how this sleek lakehouse solution delivers enterprise grade features with startling simplicity
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2025/10/06 - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jordan Tigani, CEO of MotherDuck, speaks about data analytics and MotherDuck in an era where Big Data is Dead.
2024/04/22 - CRN
CRN, the Channel Company, names MotherDuck one of the coolest data analytics companies of the year.
2024/03/26 - GeekWire
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.