DuckCon #5 (Seattle, 2024)
who it's for
data engineers, analytics engineers, data platform engineers, backend engineers, frontend developers, database engineers
topics
DuckDB 1.0 features and extensions; WebAssembly DuckDB in browser; MotherDuck dual execution and sharding; pg_duckdb Postgres integration; native Dart bindings for DuckDB; transferable DuckDB databases for concurrency; zero-copy clone layered cloud storage; windowing and window-function improvements; R-to-SQL transpilation with deer/DVplier; Argo Workflows and Kubernetes with DuckDB; Parquet-backed views and S3-backed query caching
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| DuckDB – Overview and latest developments | Hannes Mühleisen, Mark Raasveldt | 33m |
DuckDB reports concrete growth and engineering work: 6M monthly Python downloads and the extensions ecosystem at 17M monthly installs. The 1.0 release ships… | ||
| MotherDuck: Taking flight with interactive analytics | Frances Perry | 27m |
MotherDuck runs a per-user DuckDB instance in the cloud and a WebAssembly DuckDB in the browser, coordinating via a MotherDuck extension that inspects the… | ||
| Quack attack: Bringing DuckDB to the dart side | Andy Prock | 10m |
Open‑source duckdb.dart provides native Dart bindings to DuckDB via the C API and adds decimal/date/time/interval types plus prepared statements and appenders… | ||
| A duck for your dashboard: Performant data apps in the browser with DuckDB | Robert Kosara | 26m |
Observable uses DuckDB in-browser and at build time to ship static data apps: data loaders (shell/Python/R) run offline to materialize parquet tables and an… | ||
| pg_duckdb: DuckDB-powered Postgres | Jonathan Dance | 03m |
pg_duckdb shows a Postgres setup that exports a hits table with 100 million rows and joins a users table with 17.6 million users by copying Parquet to S3… | ||
| Delighting users with RESTful APIs and DuckDB | Miguel Filipe | 06m |
Dune turns cached SQL results into queryable local tables by running DuckDB on API servers with Go bindings, translating a controlled API into DuckDB SQL and… | ||
| Aerodynamic data models: Flying fast at scale with DuckDB | Brian Holmes | 07m |
An application embeds DuckDB embedded OLAP to collocate data and compute, powering keystroke-by-keroke profiling and interactive dashboards over a 311 dataset… | ||
| Double glazing: Two years of windowing improvements | Richard Wesley | 07m |
DuckDB reports two and a half years of concrete windowing changes: new distinct aggregates, exclude and qualify clauses, a streaming evaluator for simple… | ||
| dbverse: Composable database libraries for larger-than-memory scientific analytics | Edward Ruiz | 07m |
DB verse provides composable database libraries built on DuckDB and R that transpile familiar R generics into SQL (via the deer package and DVplier) and run… | ||
| A quack at building scalable data pipelines with DuckDB | Junaid Rahim | 06m |
Atlan describes a Kubernetes-native pipeline using Argo Workflows to run embedded DuckDB instances that read and write Parquet artifacts on S3. A TPC-like… | ||
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