DuckDB v1.5.3 introduces full `MERGE INTO` support and `ALTER TABLE` commands for schema evolution in Apache Iceberg tables, along with partition transforms and Iceberg V3 compatibility. PostgreSQL's …
A developer has built an AI data analyst that eliminates the need for SQL by allowing users to ask business questions in plain English. The system uses a reasoning model to interpret natural language …
Second-brain-mcp is a self-maintaining personal knowledge database that uses MCP, DuckDB, and biological memory models to automatically link, compress, and index saved papers, notes, and figures. The …
A developer in New Caledonia reverse-engineered the APK of OPT-NC's Helia mobile app, extracted its private HTTP calls, and built a Go CLI that snapshots voice, data, and SMS consumption every five mi…
MotherDuck, a cloud-based analytics platform, has publicly stated it will not fork the open-source database DuckDB, despite the potential benefits of creating a separate codebase. The company argues t…
Duckle, an open-source desktop ETL/ELT studio built on DuckDB, launched as a local-first data tool with an on-device AI assistant called Duckie. The application allows users to create data pipelines b…
The article explains that data engineering is shifting from complex distributed clusters to single-node processing, driven by modern hardware with many cores and large memory, as well as new tools lik…
The article announces the release of DuckDB version 1.5.2, which includes performance improvements and official support for the production-ready DuckLake v1.0 lakehouse format. Additionally, it introd…
The article describes the AfriData Pipeline, a production-grade ETL system built with Python, DuckDB, and the free World Bank API that extracts and processes economic data for all 54 African countries…
DuckDB released version 1.5.3, which introduces the Quack client-server protocol as a core extension, enabling multiple concurrent writers to interact with a single DuckDB instance and expanding its u…
This article, part 12 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass, explains how to access Iceberg data using Python libraries like PyIceberg, DuckDB, and Polars for local analysis, as well as MPP query en…
Creation of an AI-powered data chat tool that allows users to upload a file and ask questions in plain English, eliminating the need to know SQL. The backend architecture uses Google's Gemma 4 model f…