MotherDuck · Company blog · 11 a month · 29 posts since Aug 18, 2026
Nov 5
TL;DR: We shipped eight launches in eight days. You can now run MotherDuck in your own AWS account, filter rows and mask columns on a Share for each customer, run your biggest queries on Giga, act on data from inside a Dive, buy us on AWS...
Nov 3
Analyze data, automate workflows, and turn insights into applications so users can act on insights without losing time and context switching between tools
Nov 2
Agents can build a MotherDuck Flight in minutes. But how do you know it does what you asked? Flight Explainer is EXPLAIN ANALYZE for your pipelines: a live chart of every run showing the plan, which branch it took, how far each step got...
Oct 29
MotherDuck is launching Dive Apps: fully custom data apps that can write-back anywhere. Build them with your agent and they run on the MotherDuck data warehouse.
Oct 28
The pursuit of all things duck-related has led us to some interesting places. In this blog, MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani explores the bigger, darker corners of benchmarks on top DuckDB 1.5 (and teases what is possible in DuckDB 2.0).
Oct 18
The October 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: Jev typed AI answers in DuckDB and MotherDuck SQL, DuckDB 2.0's PEG parser and async S3 reads, DuckLake maintenance, analysis-ready OpenStreetMap, OneLake in the browser, a native Mac app, plus...
Oct 16
prompt_jev() now takes images: store them as BLOBs in MotherDuck, ask closed questions in SQL, and get typed answers with a confidence score you can join with the rest of your data.
Oct 15
Kaitlyn, MotherDuck’s Chief of Staff, on why self-serve analytics with AI agents fragments your metrics, and how non-technical leaders can get everyone on one definition of metrics.
Oct 15
MotherDuck is coming to Azure. Pick your region on the waitlist; regions open in order of demand. Your Copilot agents can connect to MotherDuck today.
Oct 9
Josh Wills, creator of dbt-duckdb and former head of data engineering at Slack, on why the model barely matters, why agents still write ugly and expensive data pipelines, and why data engineering is still the cache invalidation problem.
Oct 6
Five prompt_jev() use cases on real data, with SQL you can rerun: AI agent traces, Hacker News sentiment, sales calls, cloud job postings and a regex replacement.
Oct 5
Data Outpost kicks off on November 4, 2026 in San Francisco with 11 hands-on workshops from MotherDuck, Vercel, Sigma, Prefect, Estuary, Airbyte, Reducto, Braintrust, and Together AI.
Oct 1
Data Outpost is an AI and data conference in San Francisco. Its main day, November 5, 2026, has 13 talks and panels from teams at Canva, Stripe, DoorDash, Posit, dbt and more.
Sep 29
Turn a free-text column into typed SQL columns with prompt_jev(): 100,000 consumer complaints classified in 82 seconds, at about 1% of a frontier LLM's cost, plus how to check the labels before you trust them.
Sep 22
Common Crawl publishes petabytes of web crawl data on S3. With DuckDB and MotherDuck you can query the Common Crawl dataset directly, no cluster and no download, and measure how fast the vibe-coded web is growing.
Sep 21
Classify text in SQL with prompt_jev(), powered by TypeSafe's Jev. 100,000 rows labeled in 40 seconds for $0.50 at frontier-LLM accuracy. Live on paid plans.
Sep 21
Define your dashboards in YAML with dbt Charts, then the same dbt build that runs your pipeline deploys them to MotherDuck Dives. Just 2 config changes! Your Dives will refresh live whenever your stakeholders take a look.
Sep 16
The September 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: DuckLabs joins AWS and MotherDuck acquires Tower, DuckDB v2.0-alpha lands, table functions in pure Java, bulk loads into SQL Server, Zarr stores as SQL tables, an infinite canvas for your...
Sep 15
SQLite, Postgres, DuckDB and 20 others: they all write, store and read data. The questions you ask every day tell you which one you need.
Sep 14
We're launching commercial support for open-source DuckDB, so every organization can get the power of a modern data engine, with direct access to database experts.
Sep 10
DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup.
Sep 2
We analyzed a slice of MotherDuck query history and found agents ran 29 times more queries than humans last month, a gap that has roughly doubled every month. The average organization now has twice as many agents as human users.
Sep 2
A primer on the context layer, semantic layer, and ontology: what each term means, how they fit together, and why AI agents still need a human to decide what's true.
Aug 28
If your laptop has 16GB of RAM, your agent can write SQL locally for free with Qwen3.8 27B. On the DABstep SQL benchmark, Qwen beat GPT 5.6 Luna and cost under 50 cents in electricity, over 17x less.
Aug 27
Meet the MotherDuck CLI: one install to query data, publish Python pipelines, and host dashboards from your terminal, for coding agents and CI alike.
DuckDB in the cloud, analytics engineering and small data.
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