DuckDB
In-process columnar analytics engine — SQLite's shape, a warehouse's execution model.
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DuckDB brand colours
Extracted from the artwork and ranked by how much of the mark each covers — not from a brand book, so treat them as observed rather than official.
What DuckDB is
DuckDB is an embedded analytical database from CWI Amsterdam, now maintained by DuckDB Labs with the IP held by a non-profit foundation. It uses vectorised columnar execution across all cores, reads Parquet, CSV, JSON, S3 and live PostgreSQL tables without loading them first, and is included here as the analytical contrast rather than as an OLTP option — it has no replication and a single-process write path.
Recent changes
- 2025-09-16DuckDB 1.4.0 becomes the first LTS release
DuckDB adopts a long-term-support line and adds database encryption and MERGE INTO. The LTS commitment is the more consequential half: it is the point at which running DuckDB as durable infrastructure, rather than as a notebook tool, stops being reckless.