DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL & Parquet [Talk Python to Me, Ep. 562] How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which Parquet files matter. #DuckLake# asks one SQL question instead. The metadata lives in a real database. The data stays in plain Parquet. That's the entire format. With Quack as the catalog, DuckLake handles 200 transactions a second under heavy contention. No other open table format comes close. In this episode of @TalkPython, host @mkennedy talks with @holanda_pe, lead developer for DuckLake at DuckLabs, and Guillermo Sanchez Dionis, who works on both DuckLake and the new Quack protocol – together they discuss all the details of DuckLake, Quack, and more. Watch the episode here or listen wherever you get your podcasts:

Ducklake with duckdb is really really good. Tell your agent to use it if you ask it to import a lot of data ( like health data from Fitbit ). If you use Hermes, just go “/learn duckdb and ducklake and use it” and all your data asks will get better.

What’s Next for DuckDB? 🦆🤔 Hannes Mühleisen, co-creator of DuckDB, was recently interviewed by Kris Jenkins of the Developer Voices podcast on every challenge, reward, twist, and turn of building a database as popular as DuckDB. From the early days of the product to the most recent acquisition of @ducklabs_com by @awscloud, Hannes – and what it means for the future of the open source DuckDB, DuckLake, and Quack projects*. It’s an interview as much as a story – an odyssey of what it means to build not only an open source product, but also a community, a company, and what success looks like in the day to day journey along the way. 📺 Watch the video episode (or read the transcript) here: 🎧 Or, listen wherever you get your podcasts. *Spoilers: DuckDB, DuckLake, Quack, and other open source projects in the DuckStack will remain open source and the project’s intellectual property, MIT license, and trademark are controlled by the DuckDB Foundation. The DuckLabs company is joining AWS, but the OSS projects remain OSS and controlled solely by the Foundation. 🦆 🦆