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Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by tyre »

flakiness wrote: post #45

https://duckdb.org/roadmap Current Google cache of this page states: > "The DuckDB project is governed by the non-profit DuckDB Foundation . The Foundation and DuckLabs are not funded by external investors (e.g., venture capital)." But "(Last updated: Aug 2026)" and I was not able to find this text anymore. I wonder if they took vc money after all. I guess not, but still, it seem like to be difficult to live as an in…

Probably removed because DuckLabs is owned by Amazon now so it’s kind of confusing. Maybe Amazon said, “just take it down, our lawyers will approve some language.”

Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by aratob »

daviewales wrote: post #34

The title is misleading. AWS acquired DuckLabs, NOT DuckDB. The DuckDB source code is still owned by the nonprofit DuckDB Foundation. Quote from the article: "As the CWI representative on the DuckDB Foundation... When DuckLabs spun out of CWI, we created this foundation, which holds all IP of open-source DuckDB, and will continue to do so." - Peter Boncz

You are right.

AWS did not acquire the DuckDB technology itself, which is MIT-licensed open source and governed by the DuckDB Foundation which holds most of the related IP [1].

What they did acquire is DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based services and development company behind the technology which is owned by and employs the creators and major contributors.

And MotherDuck is a US-based venture-funded commercial company, whose cloud-based data platform is centered around DuckDB but has been significantly expanded recently, including Python pipelines, an agentic context layer, and a visualisation layer.

[1]: https://duckdb.foundation/

[2] https://ducklabs.com/

[3] https://motherduck.com/

Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by sargun »

felixgallo wrote: post #47
ferguess_k wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, they are very serious about DynamoDB and it is a very good product. Wish they released more information about it, though.

https://www.amazon.science/publications/dynamo-amazons-highl...

This is massively different from DynamoDB.

Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by ihsw »

ferguess_k wrote: post #18
hobofan wrote: post #8

I'm glad that DuckDB has a foundation in place and hope it is resilient enough to push the DB forward when the time comes. Out of all the big orgs, Amazon is probably the one that has the least regard for keeping technically interesting projects alive, and the certainly will bulldoze it for some dumb reason when the next re-org comes.

Yup, they are very serious about DynamoDB and it is a very good product. Wish they released more information about it, though.

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Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by [deleted] »

tyre wrote: post #48
pepperoni_pizza wrote: post #4

Congrats to the founders on their new generational wealth, but also what a shame.

Very much doubt it’s generational wealth. I’m not sure how much people think open source companies are worth, but the path to VC-scale profitability is incredibly rare. My guess is that Amazon wants official hosted versions and doesn’t want to go through something like the Redis fiasco with licensing. In that case, they ended up having to support their own development anyway (with Valkey), so they might as well just…

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Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by [deleted] »

ferguess_k wrote: post #18
hobofan wrote: post #8

I'm glad that DuckDB has a foundation in place and hope it is resilient enough to push the DB forward when the time comes. Out of all the big orgs, Amazon is probably the one that has the least regard for keeping technically interesting projects alive, and the certainly will bulldoze it for some dumb reason when the next re-org comes.

Yup, they are very serious about DynamoDB and it is a very good product. Wish they released more information about it, though.

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Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by yurishimo »

tyre wrote: post #48
pepperoni_pizza wrote: post #4

Congrats to the founders on their new generational wealth, but also what a shame.

Very much doubt it’s generational wealth. I’m not sure how much people think open source companies are worth, but the path to VC-scale profitability is incredibly rare. My guess is that Amazon wants official hosted versions and doesn’t want to go through something like the Redis fiasco with licensing. In that case, they ended up having to support their own development anyway (with Valkey), so they might as well just…

How much do you really need for generational wealth? In my opinion, if you're more than 10 years away from retirement and received a surprise $1 million, you're setup for the rest of your life and your children as well assuming they don't immediately blow it all when you die (that's what a good trust should be for).

Assuming historical returns, your money doubles roughly every 7 years, so within the rest of your lifetime, that 1 million should turn into at least 8. That's an extremely comfortable upper-middle-class lifestyle on the interest payments alone. If your children don't spend it all, your grandchildren would easily have private jet money by the time their parents retire.

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