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24/7 Wall St.
2026-09-16
Amazon Buys DuckDB Talent but Leaves the Code Free for Rivals
Amazon (AMZN) announced the acquisition of DuckLabs and its founders confirmed the deal had closed, handing the company the engineering team behind one of the most widely adopted analytics engines on the planet.
Computer Weekly
2026-09-02
Amazon S3 & AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
We speak to AWS’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about S3 growth, DuckDB and how AI is helping people understand their data
The Register
2026-09-01
AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate
AWS acquired DuckLabs, the company behind the open-source DuckDB database, positioning it as an "SDK for data" that connects various data processing tools and allows developers to run analytics locally before scaling to larger centralized systems.
Het Financieele Dagblad
2026-08-31
Nederlands techbedrijf verkocht aan Amazon: ‘Geen serieuze Europese biedingen’
Het Amsterdamse databasebedrijf DuckLabs is overgenomen door AWS, de clouddienst van de Amerikaanse techgigant Amazon. Een concurrerend bod uit Europa kwam er niet. Dat laat opnieuw zien hoe afhankelijk Europese techbedrijven zijn van vooral Amerikaans groeikapitaal.
NRC
Channel Insider
2026-08-28
AWS Buys DuckLabs, the Company Behind Open-Source Database DuckDB
AWS is acquiring DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, while the popular analytical database remains independent, open source, and overseen by its foundation.
RedMonk
2026-08-27
The Mighty Duck
AWS's acquisition of DuckLabs gives it access to three products — DuckDB, DuckLake, and Quack — reflecting a broader shift toward disaggregated database architectures where storage, query engines, and interfaces operate independently.
HPCwire
2026-08-27
AWS Has Plenty of Analytics Tools. So Why Buy DuckLabs?
AWS already has Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue and SageMaker, but says more than 90% of data queries involve a terabyte or less, where a lightweight tool like DuckDB fits better than a large distributed system — including for the smaller, rapid-fire queries generated by AI agents.
Silicon Republic
2026-08-27
Amazon nabs Dutch data analytics company DuckLabs
Amazon is acquiring Amsterdam-based DuckLabs, the company behind the open-source analytical database DuckDB, with the team joining AWS. The acquisition preserves DuckDB's status as a free, open-source project under independent nonprofit oversight, while founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt continue leading the technical direction.
heise online
2026-08-27
DuckDB: Amazon.com buys Duck Labs
The data tool DuckDB is open source. The driving force is a small Dutch company. It will soon belong to Amazon.com.
GuruFocus
2026-08-26
Amazon Lands a Major Deal That Could Change AWS Analytics
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is bringing Amsterdam-based software developer DuckLabs into Amazon Web Services as part of an effort to strengthen its analytics offerings.
BigGo
2026-08-26
AWS Acquires DuckLabs in Push to Bring DuckDB Analytics to Enterprise Cloud
Amazon Web Services has acquired DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind the open-source DuckDB analytics database. The deal maintains DuckDB's free and open-source status under MIT licenses, with the nonprofit DuckDB Foundation preserving independent oversight. AWS plans to integrate DuckDB's capabilities into its analytics services while expanding community governance through a new technical advisory board.
Techstrong.it
2026-08-26
AWS Buys DuckLabs to Boost Cloud Data Analytics
AWS has acquired DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind the open-source DuckDB analytical database. The deal brings over 30 engineers to AWS and provides expertise in lightweight, embedded analytics that can query data directly in cloud storage like Amazon S3.
Tweakers
2026-08-26
Amazon koopt het Amsterdamse bedrijf achter DuckDB: software blijft beschikbaar
Amazon Web Services koopt het Amsterdamse bedrijf achter DuckDB, DuckLabs. Alle projecten van het bedrijf blijven onder beheer van een stichting. De software blijft gratis en opensource beschikbaar onder een MIT-licentie.
Dutch IT Channel
2026-08-26
AWS haalt DuckLabs naar Amazon
Amazon Web Services (AWS) neemt het Amsterdamse technologiebedrijf DuckLabs over. Dat heeft de cloudgigant bekendgemaakt. DuckLabs is het bedrijf achter DuckDB, een wereldwijd populair open-source databasesysteem voor data-analyse. Financiële details over de overname zijn niet bekendgemaakt. De transactie wordt naar verwachting op korte termijn afgerond.
CRN
2026-08-26
AWS CEO 'Excited' DuckLabs Acquisition Will Drive Analytics; Partner Says Deal Will Help Fill 'Gap' For Clients
AWS CEO Matt Garman says DuckDB "changed how developers work with data," while an AWS partner says the acquisition of DuckLabs helps fill the gap between a spreadsheet and a full data warehouse for mid-market customers.
GeekWire
2026-08-26
Amazon acquires DuckLabs, adding the team behind DuckDB amid broader shakeup in cloud data
Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, the fast-growing open-source database that has become a favorite of developers looking to analyze large amounts of data without the cost and setup of a cloud data warehouse.
Seeking Alpha
2026-08-26
Amazon acquires DuckLabs
Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, in a deal expected to close shortly subject to customary closing conditions.
Investing.com
2026-08-26
AWS to acquire DuckLabs to boost analytics capabilities
Amazon Web Services announced a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind the open-source analytical database DuckDB, aiming to make its analytics offerings faster, simpler, and more cost-effective for customers.
EuropeSays
2026-08-26
AWS to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB
Amazon Web Services is acquiring DuckLabs, the organization behind the DuckDB data tool. Andy Warfield, VP at Amazon, emphasized that the acquisition aligns with AWS's vision of empowering users to work with data confidently and innovatively.
The Stack
2026-08-26
AWS is acquiring DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB
AWS acquires the team behind smash hit open-source database DuckDB.
Compare the Cloud
2026-08-26
AWS acquires DuckLabs, commits to keeping DuckDB open source
The deal marks another step in the cloud industry's quiet accumulation of open-source data tooling. DuckDB, which DuckLabs built over the past five years, runs at more than three million downloads a day, a scale that makes it one of the most-used analytical databases currently in active development.
The Register
2026-08-26
AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database
Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company.
Computer Weekly
2026-08-26
DuckLabs joins AWS to get its data in a row & quack open a new era for analytics
DuckLabs, the development team behind DuckDB, will now become part of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
SiliconANGLE
2026-08-26
AWS buys DuckLabs to bring DuckDB’s embeddable analytics to more enterprises
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it has struck an agreement to buy DuckLabs B.V., the Amsterdam-based developer behind the popular open-source analytical database, DuckDB.
Techzine
2026-08-26
Developer DuckDB to be acquired by AWS
DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based team behind the analytical database DuckDB, is joining AWS. The acquisition is set to take effect in early September 2026. DuckDB, DuckLake, and Quack will remain open source under the MIT license, and the DuckDB Foundation will continue to manage the projects.
InfoWorld
2026-08-16
DuckDB 2.0 coming this fall with client/server mode
The next major version of the self-contained analytics database will offer async I/O, a new SQL parser, and much more.
InfoQ
2026-05-31
DuckDB Quack: Client/Server Protocol over HTTP for Multi-User Analytics
DuckDB has recently announced Quack, a new remote protocol over HTTP that lets multiple DuckDB instances connect to and work with the same database over a network. The protocol introduces client-server capabilities to a database that was previously mostly local and embedded.
The Register
2026-04-16
DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic ‘small changes’ problem in lakehouses
The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the kind based on technologies from Databricks, Snowflake, Google, and others.
The Register
2025-05-28
DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS
Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more
HPCwire
2024-12-06
Meet Hannes Mühleisen, a 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch
The emergence of DuckDB has been one of the most surprising developments in database world over the past couple of years. The “unapologetically single node” vectorized column store, which was developed by Hannes Mühleisen, eschews the complexity that comes with its bigger distributed cousins, while still delivering lots of usable SQL performance.
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