DuckDB: Not Quack Science | Ubuntu Summit 26.04

Could you process hundreds of gigabytes of data on your laptop, or tens of terabytes on a single server?

DuckDB is an open source SQL database system, geared towards analytical workloads. DuckDB ships a state-of-the-art database architecture as a single package, that is available both as a command line tool and as an in-process library. Uniquely among databases, DuckDB focuses on user experience and portability, making it easy to set up almost anywhere.

In this talk, Gábor gives a high-level overview of DuckDB. He explains their “friendly SQL” language, which builds on the Postgres SQL dialect, making it more ergonomic while remaining backwards-compatible. Gábor also presents their “friendly CLI," a command-line interface optimized for productivity.

About Gábor

Gábor Szárnyas is a developer advocate and researcher at DuckDB Labs. He obtained his PhD in software engineering and was a post-doctoral researcher at CWI Amsterdam, the birthplace of DuckDB. He is a regular speaker at FOSDEM on open source software, database systems and graph processing.

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