After the release of DuckDB v1.0.0 earlier this month, we recently crossed two other milestones: – The DuckDB repository on GitHub reached more than 20,000 stars ⭐️ – The duckdb.org website surpassed more than 1 million visitor per month 📈 We wrote a few words

New blog post by Alex Monahan: Benchmarking Ourselves over Time at DuckDB The DuckDB team's philosophy is to first ensure correctness, then iterate and optimize to improve performance. This blog explores how this happened over the last three years, when DuckDB became

Building and sharing with the DuckDB community is now super seamless!! Use Rust, C++, or even SQL Macros!

There is a very significant development in DuckDB, now third party open source extensions can be [built and] distributed via the regular extension mechanisms. Example: ``` INSTALL h3 FROM community; LOAD h3; SELECT h3_latlng_to_cell(37.7887987, -122.3931578, 9); ```

New blog post by Mark Raasveldt: Memory Management in DuckDB This blog post explains how DuckDB manages memory. It covers streaming execution, spilling intermediate results to disk, and the buffer manager. Read more at duckdb.org/2024/07/09/mem…

It's not very shiny making stuff `just work`, but someone has to do it

new blog post: WebAssembly Branch Hinting: From an idea to W3C standard labs.leaningtech.com/blog/branch-hi… It's a high level explanation of the feature and a recollection of the journey through the standardization process

Speaking at FrosCon, 17 august 2024, 10:00: "Huey: Pivoting hundreds of millions of rows in the Browser" Join me to learn how to build fast Analytical apps like Huey (github.com/rpbouman/huey) for the modern browser using DuckDB/WASM froscon.org/en/

Wrote a blog post on how you can use the Datasets Explorer to find really interesting insights on Hugging Face datasets 🔥 There's even a couple examples of the DuckDB spatial extension with some geospatial queries 🌎 huggingface.co/blog/cfahlgren…

🦆 "In-Memory Analytics for Kafka using DuckDB" This looks useful: kwack by Robert Yokota, a tool for loading data from a Kafka topic into DuckDB, allowing to query it there and export as Parquet. Nice one! 👉 yokota.blog/2024/07/11/in-…