1 month later: "Re-writing DuckDB in Rust with Claude Ultra". There is a curios phenomenon, big tech uses great open source projects as a guinea pig for experimenting agent-based development approaches, see Bun, AstroJS.
AWS Acquires DuckLabs
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Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#62Title is "DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source"
This gave me a shot of panic when I read the headline - thanks for correcting the record.
Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#63The 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
This is an important distinction, I hope the title can be changed.
I was really surprised when I first came across DuckDB at how good at it is for its target use cases. It is a game changer for me for the "local analytics" space, and its ability to scale up to a large degree helps a lot.
It is simply awesome to be able to point DuckDB at a mess of CSV and other files and have an instant database on top of it that I can run regular SQL over, and it is fast and just works.
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#64Earlier 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...
It is their previous one. I did read another paper about DynamoDB, but still there is not much details.
For example, I want to know how to calculate the charge of incremental export. One blog says it is charged by the amount of change logs (but the official doc doesn't say so), which makes sense. But how do I estimate the amount? My hunch is: Put + Write + (1~100) * TransitWrite + Update + Delete + (1~25) * BatchWrite.
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#65I said "Oh shit !" out loud in a meeting.
Ditto, I had a conversation last week about Duck and Kagi being the two things I hoped never got acquired and here we are.
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#66Yeah the foundation is doing the heavy lifting here. Amazon's track record with technically interesting projects after a reorg is not great.
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#67Please No No No why.....
History repeats itself; the same thing will happen as with MySQL—when it was acquired by Oracle, it stagnated.
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#68Waiting for QuackDB the OSS spin off any second now
DuckDB is still OSS btw. It didn't go proprietary like Redis or ElasticSearch.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 life…
1 mil is not generational wealth in the US. It is a big chunk of money, no doubt. It’ll buy a reasonable 2-3 bedroom house in the city I live in, with nothing left over. No one’s definition of generational wealth involves not touching the money for two generations…
Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs
#70I'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.
Man I admire AWS marketing team for convincing people DynamoDB is a very good product.
100 items max per Transaction BatchGet 100 items, 16 MB max low write limits on same key Item size 400 KB max etc.