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DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system. "DuckDB" and the DuckDB logo are registered trademarks of the DuckDB Foundation.
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DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duc
Big Data on the Move: Can a Framework Laptop 13 ultrabook run terabyte-sized workloads with DuckDB?
ran the experiments and shared his finding in our latest blog post: duckdb.org/2025/09/08/duc
DuckDB was recently covered in 's Advanced Database Systems course at CMU. The lecture covers DuckDB's history, internals, and integration with other systems.
Slides: 15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2024/sli
Recording: youtube.com/watch?v=4iD4h4
New blog post by : Multi-Database Support in DuckDB
duckdb.org/2024/01/26/mul
DuckDB can now attach MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite databases in addition to databases stored in its own format. This allows data to be read into DuckDB and moved between these systems in a
Great blog post on DuckDB for data scientists!
DuckDB 1.4.0 is out! This is our first LTS release which comes with *one year of community support*. It also supports database encryption, the MERGE SQL statement and Iceberg writes.
For more details, read the announcement blog post at
duckdb.org/2025/09/16/ann
We are happy to release DuckDB v1.1.0 “Eatoni”.
The new release packs a ton of new features: friendly SQL extensions, performance improvements and spatial features. It also includes improvements towards supporting Community Extensions.
See our blog post: duckdb.org/2024/09/09/ann
We are proud to release DuckDB v0.10.0: duckdb.org/2024/02/13/ann
Some highlights:
– A reworked and much faster CSV reader
– Fixed-length arrays
– Multi-database support
– Secrets manager
– Temporary memory manager
– Adaptive lossless floating-point compression
– New CLI editor
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DuckDB 0.7.0 "Labradorius" released with #JSON support, parallel and partitioned export to CSV and Parquet, UPSERT, integration, and much more in our release announcement blog post:
DuckDB is introducing support for vector similarity search through the new VSS extension.
Read 's blog post for a sneak preview on the new extension's capabilities: duckdb.org/2024/05/03/vec
In the recent npm supply chain attack, DuckDB's Node.js and Wasm packages were compromised with malware. We have investigated the issue, deprecated the affected packages and released new versions. Thankfully, according to npm, nobody has downloaded the affected versions.
We have
We wrote a performance guide for DuckDB users! This guide covers topics such as the effects of schema (constraints, indexing) and hardware (CPU, memory, disk). We also share best practices for querying Parquet files and tips for tuning your workload.
duckdb.org/docs/guides/pe
New blog post: Access 150k+ Datasets from Hugging Face with DuckDB
This blog post, co-authored by the and DuckDB teams, describes how you can use the hf:// prefix in DuckDB to access datasets in Hugging Face repositories.
Read more at duckdb.org/2024/05/29/acc
We started a series of blog posts called “DuckDB tricks”. In these posts, we will present some useful shorthands, hacks, and design patterns for DuckDB.
In the first part of the series, explains some techniques for handling floats, fine-tuning the CSV reader, and
DuckDB has introduced native Delta Lake support.
In our new blog post, walks through the design and implementation of the new Delta Lake extension.
Read more at duckdb.org/2024/06/10/del
DuckDB v1.3.0 “Ossivalis” is out and it packs a ton of new features, fixes and optimizations.
See the announcement blog post: duckdb.org/2025/05/21/ann
We just released DuckDB 0.9.0 "Undulata", check out our release announcement blog post:
