AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate

Last week, AWS bought DuckLabs, the people behind the open source OLAP system DuckDB. Since the cloud giant already owns a data warehouse – in Redshift – and it doesn’t get the DuckDB intellectual property (it remains open source), then why would it bother? Andy Warfield, AWS VP and Distinguished Engineer, argued the acquisition is a major plank of AWS’s thinking when it considers the future of application building, data, and analytics. “Half of why DuckDB is perceived as being valuable is as this kind of connective tissue layer across existing data processing tools,” he told The Register. Written in C++, DuckDB is embedded within a host process. There is no DBMS server software to install, update, or maintain. It runs in the...

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