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AWS is acquiring DuckLabs, the company behind the popular open-source DuckDB database. The move signals tighter integration of the fast, file-based analytics tool with core AWS services, potentially changing how developers work with data in the cloud.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired DuckLabs, the company behind the popular open-source database DuckDB. Despite the acquisition, DuckDB's projects will remain free and open-source under the MIT license, managed by the independent DuckDB Foundation.
DuckDB, a popular analytics database, now fetches data from the cloud asynchronously. This architectural change significantly speeds up queries on large datasets by keeping the processor busy instead of waiting for data.
DuckDB, the popular in-process analytical database, has introduced a new remote protocol called Quack. It uses HTTP to enable a client-server model, allowing multiple users and applications to connect to and query the same database instance over a network, a significant shift from its embedded-only origins.