Posts tagged with duckDB

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Using Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse with DuckDB

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 my other blog post “Query S3 Tables with DuckDB”, so please make sure yo...

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

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 BigQuery, and Snowflake, offer fast, SQL-optimized performance for structured ...

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

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. Common among them is that the most, if not all, of them use Object Storage...

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

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 simply a ZIP archive of text (CSV) tables - such as stops.txt, routes.txt, a...

May 16, 2025
8 min read
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Querying IP addresses and CIDR ranges with DuckDB

Querying IP addresses and CIDR ranges with DuckDB

I had a use case that eventually required performing IP address lookups in a given list of CIDR ranges, as I maintain an open source project that gathers IP address range data from public cloud providers, and also wrote an article in my blog about an...

September 20, 2024
2 min read
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Chat with a Duck

Chat with a Duck

A while ago I published sql-workbench.com and the accompanying blog post called "Using DuckDB-WASM for in-browser Data Engineering". The SQL Workbench enables its users to analyze local or remote data directly in the browser. This lowers the bar rega...

April 16, 2024
5 min read
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Using DuckDB-WASM for in-browser Data Engineering

Using DuckDB-WASM for in-browser Data Engineering

Introduction DuckDB, the in-process DBMS specialized in OLAP workloads, had a very rapid growth during the last year, both in functionality, but also popularity amongst its users, but also with developers that contribute many projects to the Open Sou...

January 27, 2024
18 min read
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Gathering and analyzing public cloud provider IP address data with DuckDB & Observerable

Gathering and analyzing public cloud provider IP address data with DuckDB & Observerable

As organizations increasingly adopt the public cloud, managing the networking and security aspects of cloud computing becomes more complex. One of the challenges that cloud administrators face is, especially in a hybrid cloud environment, keeping tra...

April 26, 2023
8 min read
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Casual data engineering, or: A poor man's Data Lake in the cloud - Part I

Casual data engineering, or: A poor man's Data Lake in the cloud - Part I

In the age of big data, organizations of all sizes are collecting vast amounts of information about their operations, customers, and markets. To make sense of this data, many are turning to data lakes - centralized repositories that store and manage ...

April 24, 2023
20 min read
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Using DuckDB to repartition parquet data in S3

Using DuckDB to repartition parquet data in S3

Since release v0.7.1, DuckDB has the ability to repartition data stored in S3 as parquet files by a simple SQL query, which enables some interesting use cases. Why not use existing AWS services? If your data lake lives in AWS, a natural choice for ET...

February 26, 2023
5 min read
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Using DuckDB in AWS Lambda

Using DuckDB in AWS Lambda

Prelude DuckDB is an open-source in-process SQL OLAP database management system that has recently gained significant public interest due to its unique architecture and impressive performance benchmarks. Unlike traditional databases that are designed ...

February 12, 2023
6 min read
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