We are happy to announce DuckDB v1.2.0 “Histrionicus”! The new release has several usability, security and performance improvements. It has new features for the CSV and Parquet formats, as well new (opt-in) options for DuckDB's own format. Read more at

The cold season is here, and the DuckDB merch collection got you covered! Stay warm with our DuckDB beanies, now available at Perfect for staying comfy on the chilly days!

The recordings and photo gallery of DuckCon #6 are out:

DuckCon #6 is live:

DuckCon #6 starts in just two hours. Looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam or online!

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As we are preparing for DuckCon later this week, don't forget that we'll also hold the next edition of the DuckDB Amsterdam Meetup in a little over 3 weeks: This event will be hosted by @Xebia and will feature three talks: • Daniel Tom and Frank Mbonu (Xebia) – Ducklake: A modern data platform combining DuckDB with the governance capabilities of Unity Catalog • Chris Laffra (PySheets) – Using DuckDB in a spreadsheet with WASM • Marco Slot (@crunchydata) – Building a Postgres Data Warehouse using DuckDB Please RSVP on to attend.

A little-known feature of our website: DuckDB's blog has an RSS feed at We have a lot of blog posts lined up for the coming days, so now is a good time to subscribe!

DuckCon #6 will start in 168 hours (January 31, 15:00)! If you plan to attend in-person, please register at

The latest DuckDB book, published by O'Reilly, is available in print. We ordered our copy and received it today. Thanks to Wei-Meng Lee for his educating readers on how to use DuckDB!

New blog post: Query Engines: Gatekeepers of the Parquet File Format In this post, Laurens Kuiper argues that we are wasting a lot of bits by not using the Parquet format to its full extent – a limitation caused by the lack of support for Parquet features in some systems.

New blog post: Running TPC-H SF300 on a Raspberry Pi @szarnyasg built a setup for less than $300 that uses a Raspberry Pi 5 to run the TPC-H queries on 300 GB of data. Read more at

Only 2.5 weeks until DuckCon #6 in Amsterdam! We have a strong line-up: the presenters will explain how to use DuckDB for tabular, spatial and graph-shaped data, how to solve financial and healthcare use cases, and how to orchestrate and visualize queries. For the full program and the (free) registration link, please visit our site.

RT @duckdblabs: DuckDB Labs is looking for Driver Engineers with experience in JDBC and/or ODBC clients. These positions are available both…

We are proud to announce that DuckDB's co-creator, Prof. Dr. Hannes Mühleisen, received the Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2025. This prize is awarded each year to a computer scientist in the Netherlands, who has conducted particularly innovative research in CS within 15 years of obtaining their doctorate.

New blog post by @__AlexMonahan__ Vertical Stacking as the Relational Model Intended: UNION ALL BY NAME Alex takes us on a journey that starts in 1969 with a research report, touches on the little known CORRESPONDING keyword in the SQL standard, and ends in the present with some of DuckDB's friendly SQL features – and their recent performance improvements. Read more at

On the day of DuckCon #6, our friends at MotherDuck will host a DuckDB–MotherDuck workshop. Check out the details below 👇

DuckDB has a new Node.js client with more features and a more idiomatic API. Read the guest blog post by Jeff Raymakers (MotherDuck) for more details:

📺 We added two new items to our media page. Both were recorded last month at the Forward Data Conference in Paris. – Hannes Mühleisen's keynote talk “Changing Large Tables”: – An episode of The Joe Reis Show, touching on the challenges of lakehouses:

The DuckDB repository just reached 25,000 stars on GitHub. We used this occasion to stop for a moment and reflect on the project's trajectory. Read more at