AWS Acquires DuckLabs

tosh

did not expect that I hope the future for DuckDB is still bright

add-sub-mul-div

We just can't have nice things, can we?

pepperoni_pizza

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

ferguess_k

Wow congratulations for the original authors, but I hope it doesn't impact the users. I can imagine that it is very useful for AWS because they don't exactly have something similar. I use DuckDB extensively for local dev as well as a parquet viewer.

newtwentysix

super curious what exactly does it mean to acquire an open source product.

fidotron

Maybe they learned AWS were planning on releasing a managed clone without their involvement?

hobofan

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.

yipinwong

Congrats to the DuckDB team. I've been eyeballing DuckDB and LanceDB as part of AI agent memories. This gives me a vibe that AWS will use DuckDB somehow in their ai agents sometime in the near future after seeing the potential.

m1keil

Waiting for QuackDB the OSS spin off any second now

schmuhblaster

I've been super impressed by DuckDB ever since first trying it out about 3 three years ago. Congrats to the founders!

meerita

I am glad for them. Does anyone know the amount of the operation?

Bluestein

Extend, embrace, quack.-

karakanb

I wasn't expecting this, and I am pleasantly surprised. I think AWS has been a bad player in the data space and very much behind all the other warehouse providers for many years now. This could lead into interesting integrations of DuckDB on top of all the data that lives in S3 and provide a leaner, faster and a more modern alternative to Athena.

tormeh

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.

puszczyk

What's the relationship between MotherDuck ( https://motherduck.com ) and DuckLabs?

datadrivenangel

Title is "DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source"

cmiles8

Congrats to the founders but honestly feel bad for the team. Hearing so many not good things coming from inside AWS these days. Place sounds like a total mess. Seems like a constant stream of top talent fleeing on my LinkedIn this past year. I hope they just let the team carry on and don’t contaminate it with all the other craziness going on.

daviewales

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

simlevesque

I said "Oh shit !" out loud in a meeting.

Boxxed

Can we stop consolidating everything under a handful of massive companies?