The latest DuckDB releases, ecosystem updates, SQL tips, and data engineering guides.
April 2026
DuckLake 1.0, the metadata-in-a-database lakehouse format, is now production-ready with sorted tables, bucket partitioning, data inlining, geometry support, and Iceberg-compatible deletion vectors.
Dux is a distributed, lazy-by-default Elixir dataframe library backed by DuckDB, offering better performance and simpler maintenance than prior Polars-backed approaches.
Tom Jakubowski built the New York Times Connections puzzle entirely in DuckDB using SQL macros and views.
The Lance extension enables read/write of Lance datasets in DuckDB with vector, full-text, and hybrid search via dedicated SQL functions.
2026/03/13 - Simon Späti
SQL Transpilers, VS Code Extensions, Dives and more
2026/02/11 - Simon Späti
MSSQL Extension, Vortex File Format & 2TB Memory Benchmarks
2026/01/17 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: Iceberg extension adds full DML (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE). Process 1TB in 30 seconds. Query data via AI agents with MCP server. TypeScript macros for APIs.
2026/01/17 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: Iceberg extension adds full DML (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE). Process 1TB in 30 seconds. Query data via AI agents with MCP server. TypeScript macros for APIs.
2025/12/10 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: v1.4 adds AES-256 encryption. DuckLake brings ACID-compliant lakehouse with time-travel queries. Gaggle extension queries Kaggle datasets directly via SQL.
2025/11/12 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: QuackStore caching cuts query time from 49s to 3s. Infera runs ONNX ML models in SQL. 127 community extensions analyzed. DuckLake architecture explained.
2025/10/07 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: v1.4.0 LTS brings AES-256 encryption, MERGE statements, and Iceberg writes. 100x faster than Spark on local Parquet. Official Docker images released.
2025/09/09 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: Spatial joins 58x faster via R-tree indexing. pg_duckdb 1.0 adds OLAP analytics to PostgreSQL. One team cut Snowflake costs 79% using DuckDB caching.
2025/08/07 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: 50.7% YoY developer growth. DuckLake v0.2 adds credential secrets. BigQuery extension hits 21.7k weekly downloads. Vector search enables RAG applications.
2025/06/06 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: DuckLake combines catalog and table format with ACID metadata in SQL. Radio extension adds WebSocket and Redis Pub/Sub. Top CSV benchmark results.
2025/05/08 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: Metabase driver queries Parquet files directly. FlockMTL integrates LLMs into SQL workflows. Doom clone runs in DuckDB-WASM. Spatial wins top honors.
2025/03/07 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: v1.2 adds Google Sheets extension for SQL on spreadsheets. Duckberg queries Iceberg tables via Python. Smallpond sorts 110TB in 30 min using Ray.
2025/02/09 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: DuckCon #6 runs TPC-H SF300 on Raspberry Pi. SQL/PGQ graph queries 10-100x faster than Neo4j. Arrow Flight enables concurrent read/write access.
2025/01/10 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: PyIceberg enables local Iceberg catalogs in Python. Zero-egress data sharing via Cloudflare R2. SQLFlow streams Kafka and Bluesky data with DuckDB SQL.
2024/12/11
DuckDB news: Query Bluesky social data via SQL. LLMs clean CRM data inside queries. Google Sheets extension launches. DuckDB-WASM powers sql-workbench.com browser IDE.
2024/11/04 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: HTTP extension queries REST APIs in SQL. Unity Catalog integration via dbt. Pivot tables extension. Drug database demo processes 6M records per minute.
2024/10/04 - Simon Späti
DuckDB news: v1.1 hits 6M monthly Python downloads. Spark API compatibility layer added. Build RAG apps with GPT-4o embeddings. Extensions reach 17M monthly downloads.
2024/09/03 - Mehdi Ouazza
DuckDB news: pg_duckdb brings analytical queries to PostgreSQL. Ibis makes DuckDB its default backend, dropping Pandas. Getting Started with DuckDB book released.
2024/08/01 - Mehdi Ouazza
DuckDB news: Ranked #3 most desired database (StackOverflow 2024). Community extensions launch with registry. Delta Lake support via kernel. Memory management deep dive.
2024/07/01
DuckDB news: Native Delta Lake joins Iceberg for lakehouse support. DuckDB-WASM embeds full analytics in browsers. Vector search and embeddings tutorials. 12GB test data in 12s.
2024/06/08 - Ryan Boyd
DuckDB news: v1.0.0 Snow Duck is production-ready. Query 150,000+ Hugging Face datasets directly. Crunchy Bridge adds DuckDB analytics to PostgreSQL. RAG implementations.
2024/04/30 - Luciano Galvão Filho
DuckDB news: Improved malformed CSV parsing. duckplyr brings DuckDB speed to R workflows. Parse 1 billion rows in Python efficiently. Geospatial raster via spatial extension.
2024/03/28 - Mehdi Ouazza
DuckDB news: Federated queries join PostgreSQL and blockchain data. PuppyGraph adds graph modeling on MotherDuck. End-to-end dbt pipelines. Co-creator Hannes interview.
2024/03/01 - Ryan Boyd
DuckDB news: v0.10.0 adds backwards-compatible storage and faster CSV parsing. PyAirbyte uses DuckDB as default cache. DuckDB-NSQL-7B LLM generates SQL locally.
2024/01/30 - Ryan Boyd
DuckDB news: Query Google Sheets with one line of SQL. Join across PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MySQL databases. ERPL extension connects SAP data. Harlequin terminal IDE launches.
2023/12/28 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: WASM extensions load directly in browsers. Query 32GB anti-money laundering datasets locally. BI-as-code tools Rill and Evidence gain traction. DuckCon #4 announced.
2023/11/22 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Query 148TB of Hugging Face image data remotely. Awesome DuckDB resource collection launches. Benchmarks vs Spark, Dask, and Polars frameworks.
2023/10/30 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Enhanced CSV reader with dialect detection. sqlfmt formatter hits 1.5M downloads. Harlequin terminal IDE. Spatial data management course launches.
2023/09/30 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: v0.9 adds Azure storage and Iceberg support. MotherDuck raises Series B, opens to public. Harlequin terminal IDE launches. Vector similarity search.
2023/08/21 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: VS Code extension enables local and MotherDuck connections. Rill Data goes production. DuckDB Wasm Kit adds React hooks. Process 100s of GB with Coiled.
2023/07/17 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: MotherDuck launches managed cloud service with hybrid execution. Apache Iceberg extension arrives. Vectorized Python UDFs added. DuckCon SF talks published.
2023/06/16 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Query 50,000+ Hugging Face datasets directly via SQL. FalconVis cross-filters 10 million entries. Dagster integration tutorial. Spatial extension advances.
2023/05/24 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: v0.8.0 brings Pivot/Unpivot and time series joins. Project hits 10,000 GitHub stars. Spatial extension and native Swift API launch.
2023/04/17 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Mode adopts DuckDB for visual data exploration. DataCamp Workspace adds SQL-first tool. LangChain Document Loader integration. dbt extension launches.
2023/03/23 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: JSON extension queries nested data as tables. Spatial analysis runs on AWS Lambda. JupySQL enables large dataset plotting. Streamlit integration.
2023/02/22 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: v0.7.0 adds JSON ingestion, partitioned Parquet export, and UPSERT support. Benchmarks show 4-200x faster than Postgres on AWS cost queries.
2023/01/12 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Hits 1 million monthly PyPI downloads. Modern Data Stack in a Box runs analytics on single machine. CDC pipelines from PostgreSQL via Redpanda.