We are proud to release the first major version of DuckDB, v1.0.0, codenamed "Snow Duck".
This version is a culmination of almost six years of research and development. Today we are shipping an innovative database system with a backwards-compatible storage format.
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- We released DuckDB 1.0.0 a little over a year ago with a small easter egg. Since then, no one reported finding it, so we're revealing it: the hash of the DuckDB 1.0.0 binary starts with the duck emoji: 0x1f986 = ๐ฆ.
- Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. โ DuckLake is an open standard and we've implemented it in
- DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/ducโฆ
- Big Data on the Move: Can a Framework Laptop 13 ultrabook run terabyte-sized workloads with DuckDB? @szarnyasg ran the experiments and shared his finding in our latest blog post: duckdb.org/2025/09/08/ducโฆ
- Fun fact: DuckDB is faster at counting the lines of a CSV file than the UNIX word count command โ and it also parses the file to identify its dialect (separator, quote character, etc.). Here are the timings for a 3 GB CSV file: 2.966 seconds for `wc -l` and 1.261 seconds for
- DuckDB was recently covered in @andy_pavlo's Advanced Database Systems course at CMU. The lecture covers DuckDB's history, internals, and integration with other systems. Slides: 15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2024/sliโฆ Recording: youtube.com/watch?v=4iD4h4โฆ
- New blog post by @mraasveldt: Multi-Database Support in DuckDB duckdb.org/2024/01/26/mulโฆ DuckDB can now attach MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite databases in addition to databases stored in its own format. This allows data to be read into DuckDB and moved between these systems in a
- ๐ Great blog post on DuckDB for data scientists!
- ๐ DuckDB 1.4.0 is out! This is our first LTS release which comes with *one year of community support*. It also supports database encryption, the MERGE SQL statement and Iceberg writes. ๐ For more details, read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/09/16/annโฆ
- We are proud to announce that DuckDB's co-creator, Prof. Dr. Hannes Mรผhleisen, received the Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2025. This prize is awarded each year to a computer scientist in the Netherlands, who has conducted particularly innovative research in CS within 15 years of
- We are happy to release DuckDB v1.1.0 โEatoniโ. The new release packs a ton of new features: friendly SQL extensions, performance improvements and spatial features. It also includes improvements towards supporting Community Extensions. See our blog post: duckdb.org/2024/09/09/annโฆ
- We are proud to release DuckDB v0.10.0: duckdb.org/2024/02/13/annโฆ Some highlights: โ A reworked and much faster CSV reader โ Fixed-length arrays โ Multi-database support โ Secrets manager โ Temporary memory manager โ Adaptive lossless floating-point compression โ New CLI editor โ
















