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2024/07/27 - Sanjeev Mohan

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

In the latest edition of the "It Depends" podcast, 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.

2024/03/08 - Spencer and David @ Astrodata

An Elegant Data Stack for Embedded Analytics

There is a new wave of tools that are built specifically for embedded analytics solutions, so we wrote a quick blog about how some of these tools fit together and why they are such great choices. In this article, we specifically explore the cost vs value advantages of the MotherDuck / Cube / React (MDCuRe) stack for building data products.

2024/02/06 - Matt Palmer

🦆 Making Magic: MotherDuck with Mage

Mage now has support for reading from, writing to and streaming to DuckDB. Plus support for executing dbt models with dbt-duckdb.

2024/01/29 - Rob @ Estuary

Motherducks love Estuaries

In just about every business, you get to a point with analytics where you have the need for speed. Someone, or some group needs to make decisions while they’re doing their job and they either need or want some combination of “real-time” data with second-level latency, and “real-time” analytics with sub-second query performance.

2024/01/21 - Steven from Shipyard

Integrating DuckDB into your Fleets

With this partnership, you will be able to use MotherDuck's products in Shipyard. We will be working on blog posts and use cases that outline that functionality as our flock grows.

2024/01/19 - Ainesh from Dataherald

Using Dataherald AI with MotherDuck to Answer Natural Language Questions

Dataherald AI is a tool that adds a semantic layer on top of your data warehouses to enable natural language question answering. Using Dataherald’s intuitive APIs and best practices, anyone can build native applications servicing non-technical stakeholders (both internal and external), unlocking the potential of your production databases. Read on to learn how the tool interfaces with MotherDuck, a cloud analytics service based on DuckDB.

2024/01/16 - Cornellius Yudha Wijaya

Turn Your Laptop Into a Personal Analytics Engine with DuckDB and MotherDuck

KD nuggets writes a technical overview and tutorial of using DuckDB on your laptop and MotherDuck in the cloud for data analytics. Includes SQL queries and views of the MotherDuck UI.

2024/01/16 - Peter Boncz et al.

CIDR Paper on Hybrid Query Processing

This peer-reviewed paper from the Conference on Innovative Data systems Research (CIDR) goes deep into the architecture of MotherDuck and how we use DuckDB for Hybrid Query Processing.

2024/01/09 - Jordan Tagani and Hannes Mühleisen

MLOps Community Podcast: Small Data, Big Impact

Navigate the intricacies of data management with Jordan Tagani and Hannes Mühleisen, the creative geniuses behind DuckDB and MotherDuck.

2024/01/09 - Jordan Tigani and Brian Schechter

Jordan Tigani on Reinventing Old Tools for New Market Needs

Interview of Jordan Tigani by Primary VC Partner Brian Schechter. Jordan discusses taking learnings from a major corporation to his own startup, building data tools for companies of all sizes, and shares perspectives on how to frame your fundraising approach.

2023/12/06 - Jan from GoodData

Is MotherDuck ProDUCKtion-Ready?

You have seen many announcements regarding integrations with DuckDB/MotherDuck in the past months. I am quite conservative, so I am not the first to jump on the hype train. I want to be sure about new technology before publicly announcing a new integration. Thanks to my conservatism, I made time to properly evaluate MotherDuck. Now I can thoroughly inform you whether or not MotherDuck is producktion-ready (so we can use it in GoodData and recommend it to our customers). Moreover, my article shows you all the important differences between DuckDB/MotherDuck and other databases, including results from the first iteration of performance tests. Let’s start!

2023/11/14 - Jelani Harper

MotherDuck’s Hybrid Query Execution Enhances Real-Time Data Analytics

Query execution can occur locally, in the cloud, or in both environments courtesy of DuckDB for analytics with low latency.

2023/11/01 - Kaustav @ Paradime.io

The Ducks have arrived in Paradime

Paradime is partnering up with MotherDuck to help analytics engineers adopt DuckDB with ease.

2023/10/31 - Carlos Aguilar @ Hashboard

Analyzing 9 million healthcare insurance claims with MotherDuck and Hashboard

Carlos, founder of Hashboard announces the Hashboard integration with MotherDuck and give a quick walkthrough of how it helps Hashboard build on our DuckDB use cases and examples.

2023/10/30 - Mehdi Ouazza

MotherDuck in 100 Seconds

MotherDuck ProDuck tour, showing OSS DuckDB and the additional features added by MotherDuck for next-gen cloud data warehouses and data apps. Hope you enjoy!

2023/10/27 - Louise de Leyritz

Coalesce 2023: Fixing the Data Eng Lifecycle Panel

This panel brings together experts in data engineering, data analytics and software engineering to explore the current state of the pattern, pieces that remain missing today and how emerging tools and data engineering testing capabilities can refine the transition from local development to production workflows.

2023/10/24 - Jordan Tigani

Coalesce 2023: Hybrid query execution: What is a database client?

Running a full-fledged analytical database inside the client opens up new ways of executing your query; you can run parts of your query locally and part remotely. Once you can split the query plan into two pieces, the same mechanism works with N stages, which can be in series or a tree.

2023/10/10 - Rik Bauwens

Unleashing the Power of DuckDB for Interactive SQL Notebooks

Talk from Rik Bauwens (from DataCamp) at one of the MotherDuck/DuckDB meetups that happened in September in Belgium, Leuven. Thanks dataroots for hosting!

2023/10/04 - Jordan Tigani

Founders You Should Know: Jordan Tigani

What it is: Offers serverless, easy-to-use data analytics platform based on DuckDB, on a mission to make analytics ducking awesome

2023/09/26 - Rick Morgan

MotherDuck moves into Seattle office after closing Series B

MotherDuck, which was founded last year, moved into a new 10,000-square-foot office in Eastlake. MotherDuck co-founder and CEO Jordan Tigani said the company could have between 60 and 70 employees a year from now.

2023/09/21 - Lindsay Clark

VCs lay $52.5M golden egg for MotherDuck's serverless analytics platform

Database service company MotherDuck has secured $52.5 million in VC funding and removed the waiting list from its platform.

2023/09/20 - Kyle Wiggers

Database startup MotherDuck lands $52.5M to grow its DuckDB-based platform

MotherDuck today announced that it landed $52.5 million in a Series B round led by Felicis with participation from a16z, Madrona, Amplify Partners, Altimeter, Redpoint and Zero Prime, bringing the startup’s total raised to $100 million.

2023/09/20 - Nate Bek

Seattle startup MotherDuck raises $52.5M at a $400M valuation to fuel DuckDB analytics platform

MotherDuck is fueling up to flap its wings a little harder. The analytics company on Wednesday announced a $52.5 million round, bringing total funding to date to $100 million. The Series B round pushes its post-money valuation to $400 million.

2023/09/08 - Mehdi Ouazza

Quack Chat: Interview with Mark (Co-creator of DuckDB)

Mehdi interviews Mark, the CTO of @duckdb Labs and co-creator of DuckDB, just before DuckCon in San Francisco. He aimed to gain some insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of the open-source project. We hope you enjoy the conversation!

2023/08/22 - Igor @ Cube

Introducing Cube's DuckDB and MotherDuck integrations

Announcing Cube's integrations with DuckDB, an extremely potent in-process SQL OLAP database management system, and MotherDuck, a cloud service providing hybrid execution for DuckDB, i.e., offloading some computations to the cloud and merging the results locally.

2023/08/14 - Rahul Joshi, Data Science Intern @ dltHub

dlt-dbt-DuckDB-MotherDuck: Simple MDS-in-a-box

Rahul combined dlt, dbt, DuckDB, MotherDuck, and Metabase to create a Modern Data Stack in a box that makes it very easy to create a data pipeline from scratch and then deploy it to production.

2023/07/28 - Anna Geller @ Kestra

DuckDB vs. MotherDuck — should you switch to the cloud version?

This post shares how to get started with both DuckDB and MotherDuck, what are key differences between them, and when to choose each of these options.

2023/07/25 - Joe Reis and Ryan Boyd

Interview w/ Ryan Boyd: Small Databases Are MotherDucking Awesome

Joe Reis, co-author of the best-selling O'Reilly data engineering book, chats with Ryan on the evolution and future of databases, the pendulum between single-server and distributed computing, DuckDB and MotherDuck, and much more.

2023/07/06 - Tamara Fingerlin @ Astronomer

Three ways to use Airflow with MotherDuck and DuckDB

This blog post covers three key ways you can use DuckDB with Apache Airflow, whether you are working locally or in the cloud.

2023/06/27 - Ryan Boyd

If a Duck Quacks in the Forest and Everyone Hears, Should You Care?

Ryan Boyd speaks at the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2023 on why "Duck posting" has become an internet meme for praising DuckDB on Twitter. Nearly every quack using DuckDB has done it once or twice. But, why all the fuss?

2023/06/22 - Herman Schaaf @ CloudQuery

Moving Data from Postgres to MotherDuck

The team at CloudQuery shows how to use their open source ELT platform to move data between PostgreSQL and MotherDuck.

2023/06/22 - Jamie Davidson @ Omni

Announcing a Ducking awesome integration

Jamie Davidson, Founder at Omni, announces and demonstrates support for MotherDuck in their business intelligence platform.

2023/06/22 - Duncan Riley @ siliconANGLE

MotherDuck launches new cloud analytics platform built on DuckDB

Data infrastructure and analytics startup MotherDuck today announced the release of its cloud analytics platform designed to make analyzing data of any size easier by leveraging the open source DuckDB engine.

2023/06/22 - Jon Saltzman @ Ascend

Ascending with MotherDuck

Ascend now allows you to build data pipelines that deliver data to MotherDuck.

2023/06/22 - Frederic Lardinois @ TechCrunch

MotherDuck launches its DuckDB-based cloud analytics platform

MotherDuck, which has raised a total of $47.5 million, today announced the launch of its serverless cloud analytics platform, built alongside the original creators of DuckDB, the embeddable open source database.

2023/06/22 - Pete Hunt @ Dagster

Revisiting the Poor Man’s Data Lake with MotherDuck

How to build a powerful, cheap, and useful data platform with Dagster and MotherDuck.

2023/04/20 - Jordan Tigani, Hannes Mühleisen, Jon Turow

Commercializing Open-source Projects

MotherDuck’s Jordan Tigani and DuckDB’s Hannes Mühleisen talk with Jon Turow of Madrona about commercializing open source projects. This is from the Founded & Funded podcast.

2023/03/30 - Jordan Tigani

Data Council: Big Data is Dead

Jordan Tigani, CEO of MotherDuck, makes the case that the era of Big Data is over. Now we can stop worrying about data size and focus on how we’re going to use it to make better decisions.

2022/11/15 - Nate Bek @ GeekWire

Seattle data analytics startup MotherDuck emerges from stealth

MotherDuck is peeking its head above water. The Seattle startup lifted the hood Tuesday on its data analytics system based on the open-source platform DuckDB. It also announced total funding of $47.5 million to date.

2022/11/15 - Jelani Harper @ VentureBeat

MotherDuck announces query-in-place capabilities, $47.5M in funding

Startup analytics platform MotherDuck revealed it has received $47.5 million in funding. That figure includes $35 million in Series A funding and $12.5 million in seed funding, for a total valuation of $175 million.

2022/06/03 - Jordan Tigani, Joe Reis, Matt Housley

What's Next for Analytical Databases

On the "Let's Talk Data" podcast, Joe Reis and Matt Housley interview Jordan Tigani about the ideas around MotherDuck, which kicked off a couple weeks after this interview.

2022/04/22 - Sanjeev Mohan and Jordan Tigani

It Depends: Jordan Tigani Peeks into the Future of Analytical Databases

Sanjeev Mohan of SanjMo (and former Gartner analyst extraordinaire), interviews Jordan Tigani on his thoughts about the future of analytical databases. This interview took place 4 months prior to the official kickoff of MotherDuck.