DuckLake 1.0 will ship with the “data inlining” feature: small updates are staged in the catalog instead of creating many small files.
In today's blog post, Pedro Holanda shows how DuckLake implements inlining and shows an almost 1000× speedup on certain operations.
ducklake.select/2026/04/02/d...
🇳🇱🌷🚲 DuckDB now speaks Dutch! Load the EendDB community extension and start writing your queries in het Nederlands:
duckdb.org/2026/04/01/d...
🇳🇱🌷🚲 DuckDB now speaks Dutch! Load the EendDB community extension and start writing your queries in het Nederlands:
duckdb.org/2026/04/01/d...
PS: If you are wondering, what happened to the Singapore edition – unfortunately, we had to postpone it. We'll revisit it for 2027.
🇳🇱 DuckCon returns to the Netherlands! We'll host our next edition on June 24 in Amsterdam.
We are looking forward to meeting the DuckDB community in our home town's Royal Tropical Institute for an afternoon of talks and discussions.
Please submit your talk proposals and register!
duckcon.org
🎨 We rolled out a new section on our landing page this week! We hope it will help you explore the DuckDB ecosystem at a glance.
📈 Today, we are releasing DuckDB version 1.5.1, a patch release with bug fixes, performance improvements and support for the Lance lakehouse format.
➡️ duckdb.org/2026/03/23/a...
New blog post by Giorgi Dalakishvili: Building DuckDB Extensions in C#
DuckDB.ExtensionKit lets C# developers define scalar and table functions, which can be shipped as native DuckDB extensions – without touching any C/C++ code! Read the full blog post at duckdb.org/2026/03/20/d...
These are powered by two additional skills:
+ attach-db – gives Claude a mechanism to manage DuckDB state through a .sql file linked to your project.
+ duckdb-docs – uses a remote DuckDB full-text search database to query the DuckDB docs and answer all of your (and Claude's own) questions.
The skills supported include:
+ read-file and query – uses DuckDB's CLI to query data locally, unlocking easy access to any file that DuckDB can read.
+ read-memories – a clever idea to store your Claude memories in DuckDB and query them at blazing speed.
We're excited to announce duckdb-skills, a DuckDB plugin for Claude Code!
We think the embedded nature of DuckDB makes it a perfect companion for Claude in your local workflows.
Check out the repository at github.com/duckdb/duckd...
👀 DuckDB spotted in this year's NVIDIA GTC keynote: youtu.be/jw_o0xr8MWU?...
5️⃣ Save the date: on 05. 05., we'll hold the first DuckCon in the APAC region.
5️⃣ Singapore is the 5th city where we host the conference after Brussels, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Seattle.
5️⃣ Most importantly: you have 5 days to submit your talk proposals!
➡️ duckdb.org/events/2026/...
🍻 We are hosting a pub session during NVIDIA GTC! If you are in San Jose next Tuesday, sign up to have a beer with DuckDB's co-creator Hannes Mühleisen and members of the DuckDB community.
🎟️ luma.com/d0x8pwu0
🌱 Today, Apple released the MacBook Neo, an entry-level laptop with the processor from a phone, 8 GB of memory, and no active cooling.
💡 Naturally, our first thought was: can you use this machine to process Big Data? Read our analysis to find out.
🔗 duckdb.org/2026/03/11/b...
New releases of duckdb-rs and duckdb-go have dropped!
github.com/duckdb/duckd...
github.com/duckdb/duckd...
We released DuckDB v1.5!
This release comes with a “friendly CLI” client, a new (opt-in) PEG parser, support for VARIANT types and many lakehouse features. It also ships a new network stack, a reworked geospatial extension, Azure writes and an ODBC scanner.
Read more at duckdb.org/2026/03/09/a...
🧩 If you have played The New York Times Connections Puzzle and found it to be devilishly difficult, worry not. Tom Jakubowski's connections.duckdb project that lets you check your guesses – or outright cheat to solve the puzzle. Up to you!
🔗 github.com/tomjakubowsk...
📉 We decided to postpone the DuckDB release to next week to land some bug fixes and improve the robustness of the system. Sorry about that!
📈 In the meantime, we have a cool new thing to announce – you can now install the DuckDB CLI using Python's pip:
pip install duckdb-cli
🗓️ This year, we came up with new merchandise: the 2026 Friendly DuckDB calendar, which has a SQL feature for every month along with art inspired by the feature.
⬇️ If you were lucky to get one at our events, that's great! :) If not, you can still grab the PDF at blobs.duckdb.org/merch/duckdb...
🌏 We are happy to announce the first DuckCon in the APAC region: DuckCon #7 will take place in the National Gallery Singapore on 2026-05-05.
🗳️ Registration and the Call for Talks are open! Submit your proposals until 2026-03-18.
➡️ duckdb.org/events/2026/...
Hi Klaus, unfortunately not – this is currently an in-person position.
🏗️ The DuckDB team is working hard on delivering DuckDB v1.5.
🌃 While the official release is next week, you can already give it a quick test using the nightly builds available at duckdb.org/install/prev...
If you encounter any issues, let us know! 🐛💬
🦆 ↔️ 🦀 DuckDB Labs is looking for a Rust engineer to join our team in Amsterdam.
📝 See the details and application page at duckdblabs.com/jobs/rust_en...
🎞️ The slide decks and talk recordings of last Friday's developer meeting are out! duckdb.org/events/2026/...
📆 The DuckDB Developer Meeting in Amsterdam starts tomorrow! We'll have a deep-dive extension development workshop in the morning and four exciting talks in the afternoon.
🎟️ Last chance to register at duckdb.org/events/2026/...
DuckDB 1.4.4 LTS is out:
duckdb.org/2026/01/26/a...
The last time we had a “.4” patch release was in 2022 for version 0.3.4. Of course, the project was at a very different stage then.
We hope that this release irons out most of the bugs that you encountered in v1.4. Let us know!
DuckDB now supports reading from and writing to the Vortex file format! The DuckDB Labs and Spiral teams have worked together to make Vortex available as a core extension in DuckDB.
We gave it a test drive, and it performed very well. Read the full article to learn more lnkd.in/eZfGzPiZ
We are going to hold the first DuckDB Developer Meeting in two weeks in Amsterdam! On the day of the meeting, DuckDB Community Extensions development champion Rusty Conover will also give a workshop on DuckDB extension development.
Check out the programme and sign up at duckdb.org/events/2026/...
🖥️ In today's “What's on your desk?” episode, @hannes.muehleisen.org tests the MOREFINE M700S computer. This computer ships with a Loongson processor that comes with its own CPU architecture. Despite this, DuckDB runs on it quite easily. See the details in the blog post.
➡️ duckdb.org/2026/01/06/d...