Keeping up to speed with the DuckDB ecosystem
DuckDB is attracting much attention and excitement within the data community, for all the reasons we have seen throughout our adventures in this book. It is also a relatively new project in the scheme of things, and both the DuckDB project itself and the ecosystem that it sits in are moving very fast.
While we are writing this (May 2024), the latest DuckDB version is 0.10.2. DuckDB 0.10 Fusca, released in February 2024, was the first DuckDB release not marked as having a preview status, indicating the maintainers’ confidence in the maturity that DuckDB has reached. This is also evidenced by the number of organizations already using DuckDB operationally across a range of applications. The DuckDB maintainers have indicated that they are focusing on stability and robustness enhancements ahead of the upcoming 1.0 release. The notable feature that’s anticipated to land in 1.0 is a stabilized storage format, which will enable...