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Oct 28, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
The pursuit of all things duck-related has led us to some interesting places. In this blog, MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani explores the bigger, darker corners of benchmarks on top DuckDB 1.5 (and teases what is possible in DuckDB 2.0).
Aug 26, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
Today Duck Labs, the developers of DuckDB, announced they are being acquired by Amazon. This is big news in the duck-iverse, and many people are wondering what this will mean for everyone’s favorite duck-powered database, MotherDuck.
Aug 25, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
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Jun 18, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
Jordan Tigani helped build BigQuery, then left to bet that most data isn't actually big. Three years later, the agent era is making his case for him. In this conversation on The Analytics Engineering Podcast, he and host Tristan Handy talk about how MotherDuck and DuckDB fit together, why a single-node database makes more sense than you'd think for agents, and what it would actually look like to have a swarm of agents managing your data.
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AI, ML and LLMs
Interview
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Jun 2, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani on how AI is reshaping the modern data stack, why query latency now matters for agents, and the rise of open data formats.
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AI, ML and LLMs
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Ecosystem
May 12, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
DuckDB Labs announced Quack, a client-server protocol for DuckDB. Here's why we're excited, what it means for MotherDuck, and why it's so great for the DuckDB community.
Apr 15, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
In a fully agentic world, will we still need analytics at all? A particularly unhinged example might offer some clues.
Apr 3, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
What does AI think its own impact will be on the data and analytics industry? I asked Claude to share its predictions on the Modern Data Stack, data jobs, and the future of analytics.
Apr 1, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
Mar 23, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
If the Modern Data Stack isn't yet dead, it's at least incredibly sleepy. AI is bringing the "long run" closer than ever — here's what might come next for ETL, BI, data warehouses, and the role of data engineers.
Feb 19, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
AI is eating the data stack. Introducing Dives, a new MotherDuck feature that lets AI agents build shareable, real-time data visualizations with composable SQL.
Dec 17, 2025 • Jordan Tigani
Discover how MotherDuck's MCP server enables true self-service analytics through AI agents. Query data in plain English with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini—no SQL required.
Nov 5, 2025 • Jordan Tigani
MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani shares why we built our data warehouse for small data first, not big data. Learn about designing for the bottom left quadrant, hypertenancy, and why scale doesn't define importance.
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MotherDuck Features
Ecosystem
SQL
BI & Visualization
AI, ML and LLMs
Oct 31, 2025 • Jordan Tigani, Garrett O'Brien
Big Data is dead. Learn to evaluate data warehouse performance via Time-to-Insight and real costs, ignoring misleading petabyte-scale vendor benchmarks.
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Interview
Oct 28, 2025 • Jordan Tigani
Benchmarks, efficiency, and how MotherDuck just got nearly 20% faster.
Sep 24, 2025 • Jordan Tigani
DuckDB is loved by SQL-ophiles for small data workloads. How do you make it scale? What happens when you feed it Big Data? What is DuckLake? This talk answers these questions from real-world experience running DuckDB in the cloud.
MotherDuck Features
SQL
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BI & Visualization
Python
Sep 10, 2025 • Jordan Tigani
Jordan Tigani explores how AI applications can leverage analytics databases to answer complex questions. LLMs struggle with calculations and private data. Enter "Hyper-Tenancy" for isolated cloud instances.
AI, ML and LLMs
Short
SQL
MotherDuck Features
Talk
Jun 17, 2025 • Jordan Tigani, Hannes Mühleisen
DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen joins MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani for an in-depth discussion about DuckLake, the new lakehouse format that's rethinking how we handle metadata and open table formats.
Interview
May 28, 2025 • Jordan Tigani
DuckDB introduces a new table format, what does it mean for the future of data lakes ?
Dec 17, 2024 • Jordan Tigani, Boaz Leskes
Why separate storage and compute in DuckDB, how we do it in MotherDuck to enable sharing and future work.
Dec 4, 2024 • Jordan Tigani
Read Scaling is now in preview! Read Scaling improves DuckDB SQL query performance by scaling out to multiple DuckDB instances, known as Read Scaling replicas. It is useful to speed up BI dashboards and data apps significantly.
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Nov 15, 2024 • Jordan Tigani
Over the last decade, Big Data was everywhere. Let's set the record straight on what is and isn't Big Data. We have been consumed by a conversation about data volumes when we should focus more on the immediate task at hand.
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Nov 7, 2024 • Jordan Tigani
Using MotherDuck’s Dual Query execution on a Raspberry Pi to play a quack sound when users sign up for our service.
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Oct 24, 2024 • Jordan Tigani, Matt Turck
Stop paying the Big Data Tax. Discover why 95% of workloads need Small Data strategies and how MotherDuck's scale-up architecture delivers faster, cheaper analytics.
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Interview
Aug 15, 2024 • Jordan Tigani, Brett Griffin
Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension: You can have your analytics and transact them too with pg_duckdb by DuckDB Labs, MotherDuck, Hydra, Neon and Microsoft.
Aug 7, 2024 • Jordan Tigani
Jordan Tigani revisits his popular Big Data is Dead blog post with analysis of the data from the Redshift TPC is Not Enough paper.
May 1, 2024 • Jordan Tigani
Watch Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck) and Colin Zima (Omni) for a 🦆 quackingly 🦆 candid discussion about what the last generation of data tools got right and wrong, and why they both think they can build something even better this time.
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BI & Visualization
Interview
Jan 25, 2024 • Till Döhmen, Jordan Tigani
Our first Text2SQL model release!
Jan 18, 2024 • Jordan Tigani
Are database benchmarks still relevant ? Let's understand why it's a poor way to choose a database.
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Nov 3, 2023 • Jordan Tigani
Informal behind-the-scenes exploration with Co-Founder and CEO Jordan Tigani about what's happening at MotherDuck.
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Interview
May 11, 2023 • Jordan Tigani
Explores why scale-out became so dominant, whether those rationales still hold, and some joyful advantages of scale-up architecture.
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Apr 20, 2023 • Jordan Tigani, Aditya Parameswaran, Aaron Elmore
Jordan Tigani of MotherDuck and Aditya Parameswaran of Ponder debate whether Big Data is Dead or not, inspired by Jordan’s blog post.
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