From Raw Data to Insights with Datacoves, dbt, and MotherDuck x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

How many 6 year old databases get 3-10x faster sorting??? When it was already world-class??? Amazing stuff from DuckDB!

fizzbuzz in sql 🥱

DuckDB 1.4.0 is feature-packed, e.g. MERGE INTO, compressed in-mem DBs, Iceberg writes, ... PhD students contributed cool stuff: - Laurens Kuiper: new k-way parallel mergesort (duckdb.org/2025/09/24/sor…), - Lotte Felius: on-disk DB encryption, - Denis Hirn: materialized CTEs.

Sometimes you need to crash, burn, and refactor to really see the value in “small first.” Scott Haines will unpack four hard lessons where embracing smallness didn’t just rescue projects, but led to better product, better performance, better dev happiness. If you want avoidable

Today we’re launching Summation – the first Decision-Grade AI platform for leaders. Execs have dashboards, legacy planning tools, generic copilots… but none are built for the decisions that move billions.

AI hit the reset button on data engineering. Now what? Joe Reis is tackling this exact question at Small Data SF next month. The talk will cover how things are evolving: new team structures, why agentic workflows matter, and why we're shifting from analytics to automated action

"a duck and an elephant walk into a bar..." Join us during SF TECH WEEK by a16z for talks about Postgres with DuckDB, featuring Jacob Matson riffing on ways to use them together and Dagster Labs contemplating modern orchestration. PS - we have a few limited edition hats to give

come quack postgres (and duckdb) with me during SF tech week! Hope to see some of your smiling faces there :D partiful.com/e/nmw7qKU1Ip3y…

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Jordan Tigani (Jordan Tigani) will present how MotherDuck supports modern workloads with DuckLake. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/future-…

DuckDB with MotherDuck - Fastest Lake House ever? youtu.be/0HIKn8aDGOU?si… via YouTube #duckdb #motherduck #data

DuckDB ecosystem newsletter is out 📰 DuckDB 1.4 LTS just dropped — bringing database encryption, MERGE statements, and major performance boosts. Benchmarks continue to impress, with DuckDB showing 100× gains over Spark on modest hardware. Plus, we now have an official Docker

If you are coming to Coalesce, let's chat!!

Early in my data journey, I used and enjoyed Pandas. But when I found DuckDB, it changed everything. I could use SQL everywhere and get a lot of practice with it. There are lots of great reasons to pick DuckDB for your analytics tasks!

DuckLake is the easiest data lakehouse technology - it makes even 100's of TBs feel small!

Now LIVE in MotherDuck: DuckDB 1.4.1 and DuckLake 0.3! Here's what's quacking in this new release: 🦆 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗘 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘂𝗽𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 – Clean, standard SQL upserts without requiring primary keys 🦆 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 – Rewritten

Hosting apps at less than Fortune 50 scale? It turns out 1 big server is far more efficient than distributed microservices! Don't take it from me - check out Michael's years of real-world wisdom! The same applies in data! Come to Small Data SF Nov 4 & 5! smalldatasf.com

Feeling sad because your peers went to Coalesce and you didn't? Join us for an even better time at Small Data SF in 3 weeks!!! Learn abt more efficient data and AI from hands-on workshops and talks. Oh, and both George and Tristan are speaking in the same room!

Simplifying the Transformation Layer: MotherDuck + Xebia x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

8 hands-on workshops hosted by experts on Nov 4th as part of our SF conference focused on fast, easy-to-use, cost-efficient data tooling. 5 for data engineers, and 3 for AI, BI, Viz engineers/analytics. Here are the 5 data engineering workshops!