Amazon to acquire DuckLabs, adding the team behind DuckDB amid broader shakeup in cloud data
DuckDB will stay open source under the MIT license as Amazon adds a team focused on faster analytics on cloud storage.
- Amazon Web Services Inc. announced an agreement on Wednesday to acquire Amsterdam-based DuckLabs B.V., the developer behind the popular open-source analytical database DuckDB, with the deal expected to close next month.
- Collaboration between AWS and DuckLabs spanned two years, integrating DuckDB with S3 Tables and SageMaker Lakehouse to enhance data service capabilities while maintaining the database as free and open source under the MIT License.
- More than one million downloads daily demonstrate DuckDB's adoption among developers, while AWS's Quick dashboarding tool processed 2.5 billion queries with DuckDB optimizations, cutting average latency 30 percent.
- Shifting industry trends toward querying data directly in open cloud storage formats pressure competitors like Snowflake and Databricks, though MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani noted the project's governance remains protected by the Foundation.
- To maintain project independence, the DuckDB Foundation plans to add a Technical Advisory Board for community input on technical direction, while Founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt continue guiding development as they join AWS in early September.
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Amazon Acquires DuckLabs, Securing the Minds Behind Beloved Open-Source Analytics Engine DuckDB
Amazon Web Services has reached an agreement to bring DuckLabs into its fold. The Amsterdam-based company created the analytical database that data professionals have come to love for its speed on everyday workloads. The deal, announced today, hands AWS the team responsible for DuckDB while leaving the open-source project itself untouched. Details emerged across simultaneous statements from both sides. DuckLabs will join AWS in early September. …
Amazon to acquire DuckLabs, adding the team behind DuckDB amid broader shakeup in cloud data
Amazon is acquiring DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, the fast-growing open-source database developers use to analyze large amounts of data without paying for a cloud data warehouse. The team joins AWS, but the DuckDB project itself stays free and open source under an independent foundation.
AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database
Amazon Web Services has bought DuckLabs, the support and development company behind open-source DuckDB. The deal — the financial details of which were not disclosed — will see DuckLabs, founded by authors of the in-process OLAP database, become part of AWS. AWS said DuckDB and its related projects would remain free and open source under their MIT licenses, with the nonprofit DuckDB Foundation continuing to guide them. Written in C++, the databas…
Amazon has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the company that leads the development of DuckDB, an open-source, high-performance embedded SQL database management system specializing in online analytical processing (OLAP). Read more...
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