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Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by applecrazy »

xingped wrote: post #161
stingraycharles wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting to see how they will update their About page. Currently it says “Today, DuckLabs remains independent and fully owned by the original creators. We've deliberately chosen not to take venture capital, so we can focus on sustainable engineering, correctness, and keeping DuckDB open and MIT-licensed for everyone. “ Future will tell if that ends up being true.

>...sustainable engineering, correctness, and keeping DuckDB open and MIT-licensed for everyone Hah. Never have I ever heard a sentence that described Amazon less.

what do you mean? amazon maintains a ton of open source projects, including a pure FOSS version of Elasticsearch called Opensearch

Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by ethagnawl »

fwip wrote: post #104
jshen wrote: post #88

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Sure, but that's not generational wealth.

We must be operating on different definitions. Generational wealth means you have enough money to meaningfully improve the lives of your kids and give them a leg-up on life. A million dollars is enough to buy a house for each of your 2.5 kids. If getting a million dollars wouldn't affect how much money you can leave your kids, you already have generational wealth.

> If getting a million dollars wouldn't affect how much money you can leave your kids, you already have generational wealth.

Well said.

Where I live, one million dollars would allow me to pay off my house, open healthily sized investment accounts for my kids, pad my investment account, setup a trust and, overall, set my family up for a comfortable life in the future. I don't see how that isn't generational wealth.

Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by pessimizer »

fwip wrote: post #104
jshen wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but that's not generational wealth.

We must be operating on different definitions. Generational wealth means you have enough money to meaningfully improve the lives of your kids and give them a leg-up on life. A million dollars is enough to buy a house for each of your 2.5 kids. If getting a million dollars wouldn't affect how much money you can leave your kids, you already have generational wealth.

> If getting a million dollars wouldn't affect how much money you can leave your kids, you already have generational wealth.

Generational wealth is definitely not "affect[ing] how much money you can leave your kids." That's an equivocation - if you're leaving your kids a dollar, another dollar will "affect how much money you can leave your kids."

edit: you need a million dollars to securely retire at all, and that's if your parents, kids, or you don't get sick. If they do, a million is not only not "generational wealth" but it may not even last you three years.

Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by wqtz »

I made a prediction that motherduck will be acquired by GCP. But I could not imagine duckdb labs will be acquired by AWS. I do not think of AWS as a serious contender in the data space. So, we have now Pola.rs and motherduck in the market. Who will acquire them? I believe Microsoft has brought in a fair few industry talent to build their Azure Fabric product. Then you also have AI companies that are buying devtool/utility companies left and right.

Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by skeeter2020 »

janpeuker wrote: post #82

I was a real fan from the very beginning, but now DuckDB 2.0 "as a server" and 5. asynchronous I/O [1] looks aimed at something very different from what I thought first. 1) https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights

agree - I was really uneasy with the lede in their v2.0 preview:

"DuckDB has been an in-process database since day one. But people have asked us – very persistently – for a client/server mode, and we have finally caved"

This was already satisfied by numerous projects and products, and feels like a "me too" attempt to capture AI-based workflows. DuckDB always felt like "SQLite for Analytic Data" but I fear these changes and now acquiring the org leading technical direction is where they deviate for good. AWS is so unnecessary for what DuckDB can (and should, IMO) be; MongoDB jumps to mind as a cautionary tale.

Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by andriy_koval »

hobofan wrote: post #93
tormeh wrote: post #25

Seems like a good time to recommend Apache Datafusion. It's designed to be a library, but works pretty well standalone as well. There's a CLI version, but also Python and Java bindings, as well as a Rust library, of course. From my own experience I can say it integrates far better into your Rust app than DuckDB does. Well over 100 monthly contributors, too.

Datafusion has all of the individual pieces, especially if you just want to data analysis, but is far from an embedded database. Indexes, transactions, a first-class storage format are all things that come included with DuckDB, that you won't have with Datafusion.

indexes are very weak in duckdb, need to fit memory.

Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by asa400 »

hocuspocus wrote: post #134
asa400 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Datafusion related to Polars at all? I ask because you mentioned Rust integration.

No, it's a competing ecosystem, even though both are built on Apache Arrow, and their dataframe APIs might look similar on the surface. DataFusion is being used as a building block for a growing number of databases and data processing engines in Rust, as it offers the necessary primitives.

Awesome, thank you for the detail.

Re: AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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Post by BorisMelnik »

aratob wrote: post #52
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, wh…

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