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Comment · 1 year ago
Congrats Jeff, Ryan, Antony, Dan, Sheila!
Comment · 2 years ago
I think that goes without saying. My advice is for the layman.
Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
Since we at MotherDuck are running a serverless cloud Data Warehouse on top of DuckDB, we've observed the massive leaps in performance over time ourselves. Less exciting but perhaps more important are the improvements in stability and semantics recent DuckDB versions brought out.
Shameless plug - if you love DuckDB but don't want to manage it yourself, or if you need a supported 3rd party ecosystem, sharing/IAM, a fully-fledged beautiful web UI - all the things beyond DuckDB that are important to adapt DuckDB as a solution - I encourage you to look at MotherDuck. You can sign up in seconds (about 17 seconds, I timed it), you get a 30 day Free Trial without having to put in a credit card. We also offer a perpetual Free Tier and a Startup Program for qualifying startups.
(co-founder at MotherDuck)
Comment · 2 years ago
Co-founder and head of produck at MotherDuck here - would love to chat. We're running DuckDB in a serverless fashion, so you're only paying for what you consume.
Feel free to reach out to [email protected].
Comment · 2 years ago
You should give us at MotherDuck a try for this use case.
(Co-founder)
Comment · 2 years ago
Shameless plug - MotherDuck[0] is a serverless managed DuckDB data warehouse with some interesting properties:
- Managed storage with zero-copy clone (and upcoming time travel)
- Secure Sharing
- Hybrid Mode that allows folks to combine client (WASM, UI, CLI, etc) with cloud data
- Approved and supported ecosystem of third party vendors
- Since we're running DuckDB in production, we're working very closely with the DuckDB team to improve both our service and open source DDB in terms of reliability, semantics, and capabilities
(co-founder at MotherDuck)
Comment · 2 years ago
I agree. I think full text-to-results (even bypassing text-to-SQL) is akin to L5 self-driving cars. It's easy to get to some reasonable level, say 90%. But to get to the point, where folks can fully trust the system and don't need a steering wheel (or know SQL) may take decades.
We at MotherDuck took an incremental approach. We launched something more akin to lane-assist. We're calling it FixIt - an in-flow visual aid to help you identify and fix errors in your SQL [0].
I think there's gobs of opportunities to improve the analytics experiences without resorting to "L5 self-driving" (e.g. full text-to-results)
[0] https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-fixit-ai-sql-error-f...
Comment · 2 years ago
Love these! We do want to deliver more features like FixIt! [0]
What's really exciting is what you can do with DuckDB, MotherDuck, and WASM. A powerful in-browser storage and execution engine tethered to a central serverless data warehouse using hybrid mode [1] opens the doors for unprecedented experiences. Imagine the possibilities if you have metadata, data, query logic, or even LLMs in the client 0ms away from the user and on user's own hardware.
So we're doing this in our UI of course, but we also released a WASM SDK so that developers can take advantage of this new architecture in their own apps! [2]
[0]https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-fixit-ai-sql-error-f...
[1]https://motherduck.com/docs/architecture-and-capabilities
Comment · 2 years ago
And if you want a severless hosted DuckDB with managed storage, sharing, UI, and ecosystem support, check out MotherDuck[0]!
(head of produck at MotherDuck)