I'm really bullish on the future of DuckDB.
I’m really bullish on the future of DuckDB.
Friends who managed data analytics solution offerings told me that most of their customers (95%+) didn’t have more than 100GB in their analytics engine.
However, that little data they had was analyzed over and over. Getting results quickly was key!
So, why am I bullish on DuckDB?
The reason is simple. DuckDB is a serverless, in-process OLAP database management system that’s really fast.
With many machines offering more than 100GB of RAM, the majority of analytics use cases can be tackled on a single machine.
Think about that!
And the market seems to agree with me. MotherDuck, a company offering serverless data analytics with DuckDB, has just raised USD 100M in their Series B. While many startups struggle to get cash, investors opened up their purses big time for a company that is centered around DuckDB.
And, last but not least: Xebia’s very own Diederik Greveling and Cor Zuurmond are already out there sharing knowledge on how to leverage DuckDB and Motherduck to simplify the overall data landscape & decrease the cost of data processing while making data even more accessible (impression of their talk at the Big Data Expo in the video!)
Bonus: if you are starting or starting out with DuckDB, check out https://harlequin.sh/ the DuckDB IDE for your terminal!