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Introducing polyglot - A Rust/Wasm SQL transpilation library
What if you could take a SQL query written for PostgreSQL and transpile it to BigQuery, Snowflake, or any of 33 database dialects — entirely in the browser, with no server round...
Custom DuckDB Wasm builds for Cloudflare Workers
What if you could run full SQL queries, including JOINs, aggregations, and even remote Parquet file reads, directly inside a Cloudflare Worker? No database server, no connection...
Using Iceberg Catalogs in the Browser with DuckDB-Wasm
With recent updates of DuckDB itself, DuckDB Wasm and the Iceberg extension it is now possible to query Iceberg catalog directly from the browser, with no backends. involved. Ex...
TypeScript scripts as DuckDB Table Functions
What if you could query any REST API, GraphQL endpoint, or web page directly from DuckDB using SQL? No ETL pipelines, no intermediate files, no complex setup just write a TypeSc...
Use your favorite AI tool to read the lastest AWS News
You can use the unofficial AWS News MCP Server, which combines the news articles, blog posts and updates of more than 40 different AWS Newsfeeds to a single source. Connecting t...
Using Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse with DuckDB
Preconditions To use the Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse with DuckDB, you first have to create a S3 Table bucket, a namespace and an actual S3 Table. All those steps are described in...
Welcome to the age of $10/month Lakehouses
Recap: Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, Lakehouses? As a short recap, what do these mean, and how are they differentiated? Modern Data Warehouses , like Amazon Redshift , Google Big...
Using DuckDB databases as lightweight Data Lake access layer
Data Lakes come in a broad variety and lots of different flavors. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, DataBricks, etc. they all have their specialties, strong and weak sides. C...
Handling GTFS data with DuckDB
The General Transit Feed Specification GTFS is a standardized, open data format for public transportation schedules and geographic information. In practice, a GTFS feed is simpl...
Cost-efficient event ingestion into Iceberg S3 Tables on AWS
Amazon S3 Tables was launched on December 3rd 2024, and provides you “storage that is optimized for tabular data such as daily purchase transactions, streaming sensor data, and...