Blog Posts

Insights and articles about DuckDB, data engineering, serverless and open source.

Introducing polyglot - A Rust/Wasm SQL transpilation library

polyglot transpiles SQL between 33 dialects like PostgreSQL, BigQuery and Snowflake. A Rust port of sqlglot, compiled to Wasm to run in the browser and Node.js.

February 14, 2026
5 min read
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Custom DuckDB Wasm builds for Cloudflare Workers

Run DuckDB SQL queries, including remote Parquet, S3 and R2 reads, directly inside Cloudflare Workers with Ducklings, a minimal async DuckDB Wasm build.

January 27, 2026
5 min read
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Using Iceberg Catalogs in the Browser with DuckDB-Wasm

Query Apache Iceberg catalogs like S3 Tables and Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog from the browser with DuckDB-Wasm and the Iceberg extension, no backend needed.

December 16, 2025
4 min read
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TypeScript scripts as DuckDB Table Functions

Query REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints and web pages with SQL by using Bun TypeScript scripts as DuckDB table functions via the shellfs and arrow extensions.

December 10, 2025
3 min read
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Use your favorite AI tool to read the latest AWS News

Connect Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot or Amazon Q to the unofficial AWS News MCP server, which aggregates 40+ AWS news feeds.

October 14, 2025
3 min read
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Using Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse with DuckDB

Query S3 Tables through Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and the AWS Glue Iceberg REST catalog with DuckDB, including IAM role and Lake Formation setup.

June 8, 2025
5 min read
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Welcome to the age of $10/month Lakehouses

Compare Iceberg, Delta Lake and DuckLake, then deploy a serverless DuckLake lakehouse for about $10 a month on Cloudflare Containers, R2 and Neon Postgres.

May 30, 2025
19 min read
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Using DuckDB databases as lightweight Data Lake access layer

Share Parquet data in S3 or R2 via a small DuckDB database file of views: a lightweight, low-cost data lake access layer that is queryable with plain SQL.

May 17, 2025
7 min read
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Handling GTFS data with DuckDB

Load GTFS public transit schedule feeds into a DuckDB database, query stops, routes and trips with SQL, and export the data to Parquet.

May 16, 2025
7 min read
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Cost-efficient event ingestion into Iceberg S3 Tables on AWS

Compare three serverless architectures for ingesting events into Apache Iceberg S3 Tables via Amazon Data Firehose, then query the data with Athena and DuckDB.

April 10, 2025
13 min read
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