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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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