duckdb

DuckDB's sixth 1.5 patch release fixes wrong-result and crash bugs; the team also reports a v2.0.0-dev Windows build finishing a TPC-H SF300 run in 129 seconds versus 822.

MotherDuck bought Tower Computing Inc., the runtime provider already powering its Flights feature for AI-built data pipelines.

Amazon will acquire the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, but not the open-source project itself, which stays MIT-licensed under the independent DuckDB Foundation.

DuckDB's team previewed version 2.0, codenamed Cyanoptera, replacing its PostgreSQL-derived SQL parser with an extensible PEG-based parser and adding client/server mode and triggers.

DuckDB 1.5.0 introduces a VARIANT type that speeds JSON queries up to 100x, promotes GEOMETRY into core, overhauls the CLI, and delivers broad performance gains across more than 6,500 commits from nearly 100 contributors.