MotherDuck

MotherDuck is a cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB, designed to make big data feel small. It offers a fast, columnar central data storage optimized for analytics, capable of scaling vertically and horizontally to handle spikey workloads. MotherDuck reads various data formats like plaintext, JSON, Parquet, Iceberg, XLS, and CSV, and allows users to run locally or deploy to the cloud for reliability and collaboration. The platform is ideal for software engineers dealing with big data problems, data scientists who find themselves doing data engineering, and data engineers struggling with slow, brittle pipelines. It supports use cases such as internal business intelligence, analytics, and customer-facing analytics, delivering near real-time, low-latency insights at scale. MotherDuck's architecture features a per-user tenancy model with dedicated DuckDB instances (Ducklings) of various sizes, along with read scaling capabilities to support BI tools and high concurrency.