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What's the relationship between MotherDuck (https://motherduck.com https://motherduck.com) and DuckLabs?

• tiffanyh 22d ago
  My understanding is that MotherDuck provides hosting for DuckDB. And DuckLabs is the engineering behind DuckDB. If I'm correct, this seems like a signal that AWS is coming after the segment of customers wanting to host DuckDB (MotherDucks customers). Correct me if I'm wrong though, please.
  • pepperoni_pizza 22d ago
    You're right - MotherDuck just got Jeffed.
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• batdata 22d ago
  Hey, MotherDucker here! We've been working closely with the DuckLabs team since day one, and the collaboration will continue! You can read more here: https://motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-amazon/ https://motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-amazon/
  • chotmat 21d ago
    Wait, you guys actually call yourselves MotherDuckers :rofl:. I was thinking before that would be a hilarious name, kind of like how Google has “Googlers.”
• skeeter2020 22d ago
  TL;DR AWS will either acquire MD next/soon, or (more likely) keep them around for the optics that they are totally not going to starve the community of anything other than DuckDB as a hosted AWS service. From the MD "about page": The idea for MotherDuck came after Jordan Tigani, MotherDuck co-founder and chief duck-herder, saw DuckDB in action and thought, “Wow, this is amazing! someone should really build a serverless version.” ... Hannes and Mark, who founded DuckLabs to focus on the core technology and build the world’s best analytics database, were looking for partners who would build a commercial cloud offering.