DuckCon #7 Amsterdam 2026
2026-06-24
Amsterdam, Netherlands
who it's for
duckdb contributors and backend engineers, data engineers and lakehouse architects, analytics engineers and BI developers, platform engineers and SREs, bioinformatics engineers and genomics researchers, application developers using local databases, database integrators and storage-engine authors
topics
DuckDB WebAssembly queries; DuckLake deployment on Hetzner; DuckDB as MariaDB storage engine; Iceberg-backed tables in Postgres; index-backed full-text and vector search; grammar of graphics inside SQL; single-file analytics with SQLRooms; genomics pipelines with DuckDB and GCS; server protocol and multi-tenant DuckDB; migrating PySpark to DuckDB SQL
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| State of the Duck | Hannes Mühleisen, Mark Raasveldt | 28m |
DuckDB reports over 1 million installs/day and 160 million extension installs/month, and DuckLake reaches DuckLake 1.0 in one year alongside a new Quack… | ||
| Making Iceberg walk and talk like Postgres | Marco Slot | 05m |
Project brings Iceberg into Postgres as a native-backed table format, reimplemented Iceberg metadata in C and kept metadata cached in Postgres, delegates heavy… | ||
| DuckDB powering cancer genomics research | Thomas Visser | 05m |
Hartwig runs whole‑genome data for ~8,000 cancer patients, shared with 300+ research groups and driving ~200 papers, and builds GenOnco: a browser‑local tool… | ||
| ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL | Teun van den Brand | 13m |
An alpha tool implements a grammar of graphics inside SQL so queries return plots without exporting to R or Python. It splits a SQL SELECT from a trailing… | ||
| Phages & DuckDB: The mighty duo against the giants | V. Grosboillot, H. Vazquez-Cano | 11m |
Sinfage is an open-source pipeline that uses DuckDB to parse messy semi-structured genomic files, infer schemas, extract metadata and replace Python loops with… | ||
| Grep your lakehouse: Search-first retrieval for DuckDB-powered agents | Sylvain Utard | 12m |
Extends Duck Lake/DuckDB by adding index-backed full‑text and semantic retrieval as SQL extensions, using TenTen TV indexes stored beside Parquet files and… | ||
| Building local-first analytics apps with SQLRooms | Ilya Boyandin | 05m |
Open-source SQLRooms packages a whole analytics workspace into a single-file DuckDB project that stores data plus UI and app state, donated to the OpenJS… | ||
| When the sea lion learns to quack: DuckDB as a MariaDB storage engine | Roman Nozdrin | 16m |
An embedded DuckDB storage engine for MariaDB is implemented with a DuckDB manager singleton plus per-connection THD MVCC and delta appender buffer that… | ||
| Effortlessly modernize your legacy | Nicolas Renkamp | 12m |
Merck migrates large PySpark pipelines to DuckDB using SQLFrame converts PySpark to DuckDB SQL, keeping S3 and job orchestration unchanged while switching… | ||
| DuckLake on Hetzner: Your own data lakehouse for under €15 a month | Floyd Berndsen | 05m |
Builds a working DuckLake using DuckDB 1.5 + PostgreSQL + Hetzner object storage and an infrastructure-as-code script that deploys in 3 minutes to a Hetzner… | ||
| 20 years of wind: Auditing UK energy policy without a cluster | Barry Smart | 05m |
Claims an evidence-based audit of UK energy policy shows the dash to net zero may be compromising security, reliability, and affordability, built from… | ||
| SQL layer over user listening history for agentic access | Kian Mehrabani | 11m |
Stateless Kubernetes Java gRPC pods ingest userID plus SQL, fetch Protobuf listening logs, convert to Arrow vectors and run queries in-process with DuckDB… | ||
| Native app development using DuckDB | Milla Henriksson | 04m |
A native app for rally engineers combines Tauri + Rust MPSC single-thread worker with an embedded DuckDB with Delta and Azure extensions, providing offline… | ||
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