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Posted by onderkalaci 17 hours ago

AWS Acquires DuckLabs(ducklabs.com)
1016 points | 299 commentspage 3
m1keil 17 hours ago|
Waiting for QuackDB the OSS spin off any second now
rustyconover 17 hours ago||
I've already created Haybarn which is Query.Farm's distribution of DuckDB:

learn about it here: https://query.farm/haybarn/

anentropic 16 hours ago||
If my extension shows as "build failed" on https://query.farm/haybarn/status/v1.5.5/ how do I go about fixing it?

Presumably the issue is Haybarn-specific?

rustyconover 16 hours ago||
You can get in touch with me, or open an issue or PR as to why.

The CI extension build runs are still public on GitHub, but may have expired, if you bump your git sha ref it will rerun.

anentropic 15 hours ago||
Took a bit of searching around to find the repo: https://github.com/Query-farm-haybarn/haybarn-community-exte...

Looks like this is the failed build https://github.com/Query-farm-haybarn/haybarn-community-exte... but logs have expired

rustyconover 15 hours ago||
I'll kick it off again for you.
anentropic 15 hours ago||
Looks like flaky GitHub this time: https://github.com/Query-farm-haybarn/haybarn-community-exte...
gkbrk 16 hours ago|||
DuckDB is still OSS btw. It didn't go proprietary like Redis or ElasticSearch.
m1keil 5 hours ago||
For now..
Keyframe 15 hours ago||
MallarDB
schmuhblaster 17 hours ago||
I've been super impressed by DuckDB ever since first trying it out about 3 three years ago. Congrats to the founders!
flakiness 16 hours ago||
https://duckdb.org/roadmap

Current Google cache of this page states:

> "The DuckDB project is governed by the non-profit DuckDB Foundation . The Foundation and DuckLabs are not funded by external investors (e.g., venture capital)."

But "(Last updated: Aug 2026)" and I was not able to find this text anymore.

I wonder if they took vc money after all. I guess not, but still, it seem like to be difficult to live as an independent open source company. Getting a big co as a parent/sponsor is probably the next best thing.

tyre 16 hours ago|
Probably removed because DuckLabs is owned by Amazon now so it’s kind of confusing. Maybe Amazon said, “just take it down, our lawyers will approve some language.”
yipinwong 17 hours ago||
Congrats to the DuckDB team.

I've been eyeballing DuckDB and LanceDB as part of AI agent memories. This gives me a vibe that AWS will use DuckDB somehow in their ai agents sometime in the near future after seeing the potential.

m00dy 17 hours ago|
like vector search ?
yipinwong 15 hours ago||
Yes. AWS has OpenSearch for cloud-first vector searches (disregarding cloud-hosted postgres with extensions etc). It's ridiculously expensive and not as fast.

DuckDB to the rescue.

Also embed the crap outta DuckDB locally in local agents running on VPS, etc

m00dy 15 hours ago||
May I ask how DuckDB is making vector search better than others ?
georgewfraser 11 hours ago||
AWS is a great home for DuckLabs. They just want people to use more compute and storage, so they have a degree of technology-neutrality. This is the key to allowing DuckDB to continue to grow in whatever directions are natural, rather than being warped by some kind of walled garden data platform strategy.
jonnat 11 hours ago|
Fair point, but no one is clearly articulating what AWS gets out of this. They don't get the DuckDB IP, that's owned by the foundation. All the work that the team at DuckLabs is putting in growing DuckDB and DuckLake are already in principle converting into compute/storage demand in AWS. So what does AWS actually want and how will it change DuckDB to accomplish it?
senderista 9 hours ago||
Maybe an OLAP db that scales down for serverless?
newtwentysix 17 hours ago||
super curious what exactly does it mean to acquire an open source product.
eventualcomp 17 hours ago||
Devs gotta eat. Yeah the code is out there but the code is a result of a lot of thinking, prioritization, research into what is needed from the actual product. So now AWS owns that mindshare and talent and will (probably heavily) influence its decisions. I just hope DuckDB doesn't stray from its goal of being the SQLite (e.g. embedded) OLAP.
pjmlp 17 hours ago||
When will folks finally learn that if they like having a salary, devs that produce tools actually would like to have one as well?
geodel 15 hours ago||
Never. When it comes to me I am just a poor hustler, surviving a s/w job to make ends meet. When it comes to open source I am gonna hold those guys to highest standard, code, github behavior, tweets, everything must live up to best human ideals.

So give your tools, your life, free bug fixing, priority attention to me because I am getting my paid job done. Why they need money anyway, they can leave on reputation of OSS contributors. Also not to forget I donated 5 dollars last year so now give me full certified audit of your finances of last 5 years.

nobleach 16 hours ago|||
It can go different ways. Redis, Elastic Search, MySQL, and Java all have different stories with some common threads.
grim_io 17 hours ago||
Complete control over what gets merged and worked on by the core team.
orian 17 hours ago||
it was already like that, and merging 3rd party changes to the core was troublesome, so maybe aws just bought them cause of this reason :D
kimseungyong 3 hours ago||
Who is better? AWS? Google? MS?
akshay_akula 16 hours ago||
Yeah the foundation is doing the heavy lifting here. Amazon's track record with technically interesting projects after a reorg is not great.
nightski 15 hours ago||
Remember when big co used to just donate to open source projects to help them out instead of acquiring/dominating them?
angulardragon03 12 hours ago|
Back in 2018, I took Hannes’ database course as part of my CS degree, which was one of the better ones I took. Over the years, I’ve seen DuckDB celebrated here (and other places), and now this. Congrats to both him and the Ducklabs team.
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