Quack-Mate: a chess engine in SQL
We have all seen SQL pushed past its comfort zone to build things like 3D renderers or cellular automata. Naturally, I wondered about a classic comput…
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How I Built a Free Backlink Intelligence Tool on Common Crawl + DuckDB
The problem Backlink data is a $1.5B/year SaaS category. Ahrefs is $129/month, SEMrush is $140/month, Moz is $99/month. As an indie I needed competito…
From DeepSeek to Quack: When the Dream of Distributed DuckDB Started to Feel Real
At the beginning of 2025, DeepSeek changed the conversation around AI infrastructure. Most people focused on the model quality, the training cost, and…
Anatomy of Duck DB for Python Developers
Introduction - SQL without a Server Pandas is widely used for data analysis and almost every data analyst or even data engineers utilize it for faster…
AI + BI Convergence: Engineering the 10M-Row AI BI Agent
Can an AI agent handle a 10M-row dataset in sub-2 seconds? By leveraging DuckDB and a columnar vectorized execution engine, I built a conversational B…
Valentina Studio v17.3 supports new VARIANT field type of DuckDB v1.5
News for DuckDB users! Valentina Studio 17.3 now fully supports the new DuckDB VARIANT type on all three desktop platforms — Windows, macOS and Linux.…
PostgreSQL 17 with DuckDB 1.2: how we cut cloud spend 40% #6949
We were burning $42,000 a month on managed PostgreSQL 17 instances to power our analytics dashboards, with p99 query latency hitting 11 seconds for 1T…
Maybe SQLite Is Still Better Than DuckDB for My Workloads
The Conventional Wisdom Open any data-engineering thread in 2026 and you'll see the same chorus: "DuckDB is the SQLite of analytics, just use it." Mig…
DuckLake 1.0: Data Lake Format with SQL Catalog Metadata
DuckDB Labs recently released DuckLake 1.0, a data lake format that stores table metadata in a SQL database rather than across many files in object st…