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.

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

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.

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

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.

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Interview w/ Ryan Boyd: Small Databases Are MotherDucking Awesome

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

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Three ways to use Airflow with MotherDuck and DuckDB

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?

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

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

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Announcing a Ducking awesome integration

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

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Moving Data from Postgres to MotherDuck

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

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Revisiting the Poor Man’s Data Lake with MotherDuck

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.

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MotherDuck launches its DuckDB-based cloud analytics platform

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

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Ascending with MotherDuck

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.

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MotherDuck launches new cloud analytics platform built on DuckDB

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.

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Commercializing Open-source Projects

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. 

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Data Council: Big Data is Dead

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.

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Seattle data analytics startup MotherDuck emerges from stealth

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.

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

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.

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What's Next for 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.

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