Now GA: the ducking simple analytics data warehouse
The cloud SQL analytics platform that helps you do more with your data. A unique architecture enables dual query execution across local machines and the cloud, letting you experience smooth workflows and ultra-efficient performance that won’t break the bank.
Hey folks… I’m Jordan, co-founder and chief duck-herder at MotherDuck.
I started MotherDuck with a handful of fellow database industry nerds because we were frustrated that the pace of innovation seemed to be slowing for people that work with data. More and more entries were getting added into the modern data stack, and yet it had been a while since someone had really done something new or made a huge improvement.
In the last decade, servers got orders of magnitude more powerful, laptops went from toys to mini-supercomputers, and fiber to the home and workplace became common. At the same time, those of us working with data infrastructure started noticing that data workloads weren’t really growing in size. The constraints were dissolving, bringing opportunity for change.
We built MotherDuck to help people solve problems using data. Our goal isn’t to be the biggest query engine or the fastest data warehouse. We want you to be able to go from formulating questions to understanding the answers in as few steps as possible.
We’re built on DuckDB, the open source SQL analytics engine that has gone from the database that no one has heard of to the one that everyone is talking about. Collaboration with the DuckDB team has let us build something pretty unique; the delta between running on your laptop and running in the cloud is as small as adding three characters to your database path. MotherDuck with DuckDB also enables our users to build highly-interactive data applications that save on cloud compute costs by running some of your query workload locally,
If you like ducks, and you like databases, give it a try, we’re eager to get feedback.
