duckdb

InfoWorld and The Register report competing Postgres-plus-Iceberg designs from Databricks, EDB, Snowflake, pgEdge and AWS, with analysts flagging a shared DuckDB dependency and catalog gaps.

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS, released October 21, adds triggers, the Quack CONNECT statement, a PEG parser and async I/O; versions before 2.0 cannot read files it creates.

Aurora PostgreSQL 17.11+ and 18.6+ can join live tables with Iceberg and Parquet data in S3 through an embedded DuckDB, with no ETL and no extra charge.

DuckDB's team ran a v2.0 development build on NVIDIA's Vera CPU and an Intel Xeon 6 server, reporting median TPC-H SF1,000 scores of 3,073,292.99 versus 2,109,782.19 QphH@Size.

DuckDB's blog describes a v2.0 CLI agent mode that cut output tokens 59% in its own Claude Code test, but v2.0 is not yet released.

DuckDB's sixth 1.5 patch release fixes wrong-result and crash bugs; the team also reports a v2.0.0-dev Windows build finishing a TPC-H SF300 run in 129 seconds versus 822.

MotherDuck bought Tower Computing Inc., the runtime provider already powering its Flights feature for AI-built data pipelines.

Amazon will acquire the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, but not the open-source project itself, which stays MIT-licensed under the independent DuckDB Foundation.

DuckDB's team previewed version 2.0, codenamed Cyanoptera, replacing its PostgreSQL-derived SQL parser with an extensible PEG-based parser and adding client/server mode and triggers.

DuckDB 1.5.0 introduces a VARIANT type that speeds JSON queries up to 100x, promotes GEOMETRY into core, overhauls the CLI, and delivers broad performance gains across more than 6,500 commits from nearly 100 contributors.