AWS Acquires DuckLabs

How do you suppose AWS can monetize it?

Goobye DuckDB.

Prediction: this is start of an aquisition spree by AWS.

AWS is always hungry. Watch out PostgreSQL

Can we stop consolidating everything under a handful of massive companies?

Wow, that sucks balls.

I guess this will be a good test of the open source model DuckDB has opted into.

As I understand it, DuckDB is MIT-licensed and governance is provided by a separate, non-profit DuckDB foundation. This was done explicitly to prevent BSL-ification.

I'm very curious to see whether that approach holds the line. I wouldn't bet on it, but one can hope?

That's horrible news.

This will be the engine for redshift now. They’ll make it read write and it’ll be magic.

Man. DuckDB is one of my favorite tools in the past decade. It basically replaced pandas/Polars for me and I hope aws leaves it alone.

Otoh, I am glad those guys got paid.

Please edit the title it’s wrong

Congrats!

Insane!!!!

I see a site like https://ducklabs.com/ and it's clear I'm waaaay over thinking my website.

Please No No No why.....

This is awful news.

I said "Oh shit !" out loud in a meeting.

On one hand I am glad that (hopefully) some people were rewarded for their hard work.

On the other hand, do we have to live in an oligarchy?

We just can't have nice things, can we?

such a disappointing outcome

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I'm glad I stuck with SQLite. Governance is an important part of any open source project. SQLite has kept things narrow and focused, while DuckDB's philosophy is to do more and more, making it a general-purpose data science tool. I am old-fashioned in that I believe in the philosophy that software should "do one thing and do it well"