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  • This is a real shame. I love DuckDB, and we've adopted/extended it and ducklake very heavily at Krea for our research.

    I know the projects will remain open, and ostensibly still contributed to in the same direction, but surely AWS thinks of this as another piece of a product suite to compete with Databricks.

    Nontheless, I think the open embedded query engine approach DuckDB is spearheading is larger than one project, and I remain excited about the broader ecosystem (especially datafusion).

    by willbeddow
  • Title is "DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source"
    by datadrivenangel
  • I was a real fan from the very beginning, but now DuckDB 2.0 "as a server" and 5. asynchronous I/O [1] looks aimed at something very different from what I thought first.

    1) https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights

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

    by tormeh
  • 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.

    by cmiles8
  • 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

    by daviewales
  • 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.

    by hobofan

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