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Comment #43343485
Congrats Jeff, Ryan, Antony, Dan, Sheila!
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Comment #40876041
I think that goes without saying. My advice is for the layman.
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Comment #40869212
Powdered sugar is 50/50 fructose and glucose, a close to perfect ratio for absorption. A dash of Gatorade powder for taste and you got yourself a drink that's inexpensive and gets …
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Comment #40801566
Since we at MotherDuck are running a serverless cloud Data Warehouse on top of DuckDB, we've observed the massive leaps in performance over time ourselves. Less exciting but perhap…
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Comment #40652625
Co-founder and head of produck at MotherDuck here - would love to chat. We're running DuckDB in a serverless fashion, so you're only paying for what you consume. Feel free to reach…
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Comment #40563183
You should give us at MotherDuck a try for this use case. (Co-founder)
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Comment #40527376
Shameless plug - MotherDuck[0] is a serverless managed DuckDB data warehouse with some interesting properties: - Managed storage with zero-copy clone (and upcoming time travel) - S…
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Comment #39133177
I agree. I think full text-to-results (even bypassing text-to-SQL) is akin to L5 self-driving cars. It's easy to get to some reasonable level, say 90%. But to get to the point, whe…
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Comment #39133091
Love these! We do want to deliver more features like FixIt! [0] What's really exciting is what you can do with DuckDB, MotherDuck, and WASM. A powerful in-browser storage and execu…
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Comment #39132852
And if you want a severless hosted DuckDB with managed storage, sharing, UI, and ecosystem support, check out MotherDuck[0]! (head of produck at MotherDuck) [0] https://motherduck.…
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Comment #39132608
Co-founder and Head of Produck at MotherDuck here, happy to answer any questions or go nag the amazing engineers [0] who worked on this :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=…
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Comment #38688504
Perseverance of global rule of law. If Ukraine goes, we go back to 19th century. Any two-bit dictator wannabe will want to invade their neighbor for some sweet sweet territory. Glo…
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Comment #38492642
Check out MotherDuck! (co-founder and head of produck, feel free to reach out)
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Comment #38173277
That sounds great and i will do that from now on. That said, the substance of my reply holds...
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Comment #38171630
From the article itself: "The team at DuckDB Labs has been hard at work improving the performance of the out-of-core hash aggregates and joins." Aside from that, since April DuckDB…
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Comment #38167929
Hi, head of Produck at MotherDuck here. Yes, we are indeed a good use case for this. For one, we built a fully-fledged managed storage system on top of DuckDB, with better performa…
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Comment #38167892
DuckDB 0.9 has fixed most of OOM scenarios by both using far less RAM and by spilling to disk better. (Head of Produck at MotherDuck and a huge fan of DuckDB)