AWS Takes over DuckLabs, the Company Behind DuckDB Database
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AWS announced on August 27th the purchase of DuckLabs. They were then working for 2 years. DuckLabs is developing the open source analytical database DuckDB. This on-board database is written in C++. AWS will thus strengthen the analytical capabilities while giving DuckLabs teams another dimension to develop the solutions. AWS has already announced that the current open source projects will remain so. DuckDB will not change.AWS summarizes this a…
Amazon Web Services has signed an agreement to buy back DuckLabs, the Dutch company behind the DuckDB database. The transaction, confirmed on Wednesday, is scheduled to close by September without disrupting the open source status of the project.
The Apache Iceberg table format has become a must for analytical data, but its opening even leaves Amazon Web Services out of the hands of those who access the data it hosts. Control therefore moves to the engine that reads these tables, and the most used is the DuckDB free database. AWS takes over the [...] The post AWS buys the DuckDB team, the S3 access engine, and secures access to its Iceberg format appeared first on IT SOCIAL.
Amazon has signed a final agreement to acquire DuckLabs. All DuckLabs employees will switch to Amazon Web Services in the course of the acquisition, including co-founders and DuckDB creators Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt, who will continue to lead the team as well as the project's technical orientation. Both will remain at the Amsterdam site, where the team will continue to work on DuckDB and related projects. Amazon expressly stresses tha…
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