# DuckDB News & Updates The latest DuckDB releases, ecosystem updates, SQL tips, and data engineering guides. April 2026 ## DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : April 2026 ### [DuckLake 1.0: The Lakehouse Format Goes Production-Ready](https://ducklake.select/2026/04/13/ducklake-10/) DuckLake 1.0, the metadata-in-a-database lakehouse format, is now production-ready with sorted tables, bucket partitioning, data inlining, geometry support, and Iceberg-compatible deletion vectors. ### [dux: Distributed DataFrames for Elixir powered by DuckDB](https://github.com/elixir-dux/dux) Dux is a distributed, lazy-by-default Elixir dataframe library backed by DuckDB, offering better performance and simpler maintenance than prior Polars-backed approaches. ### [connections.duckdb: Play the New York Times Connections puzzle with DuckDB!](https://github.com/tomjakubowski/connections.duckdb) Tom Jakubowski built the New York Times Connections puzzle entirely in DuckDB using SQL macros and views. ### [Lance Extension](https://duckdb.org/docs/current/core_extensions/lance) The Lance extension enables read/write of Lance datasets in DuckDB with vector, full-text, and hybrid search via dedicated SQL functions. [Read the full newsletter](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-april-2026/index.html) ## [DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter – March 2026](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-march-2026/index.html) SQL Transpilers, VS Code Extensions, Dives and more ## [DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter – February 2026](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-february-2026/index.html) MSSQL Extension, Vortex File Format & 2TB Memory Benchmarks ## [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2026](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-january-2026/index.html) DuckDB news: Iceberg extension adds full DML (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE). Process 1TB in 30 seconds. Query data via AI agents with MCP server. TypeScript macros for APIs. ## [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2025](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-december-2025/index.html) DuckDB news: v1.4 adds AES-256 encryption. DuckLake brings ACID-compliant lakehouse with time-travel queries. Gaggle extension queries Kaggle datasets directly via SQL. ## [DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2025](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-november-2025/index.html) DuckDB news: QuackStore caching cuts query time from 49s to 3s. Infera runs ONNX ML models in SQL. 127 community extensions analyzed. DuckLake architecture explained. ## [DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2025](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-october-2025/index.html) DuckDB news: v1.4.0 LTS brings AES-256 encryption, MERGE statements, and Iceberg writes. 100x faster than Spark on local Parquet. Official Docker images released. ## [DuckDB Ecosystem: September 2025](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-september-2025/index.html) DuckDB news: Spatial joins 58x faster via R-tree indexing. pg_duckdb 1.0 adds OLAP analytics to PostgreSQL. One team cut Snowflake costs 79% using DuckDB caching. ## [DuckDB Ecosystem: August 2025](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-august-2025/index.html) DuckDB news: 50.7% YoY developer growth. DuckLake v0.2 adds credential secrets. BigQuery extension hits 21.7k weekly downloads. Vector search enables RAG applications. ## [DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2025](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-june-2025/index.html) DuckDB news: DuckLake combines catalog and table format with ACID metadata in SQL. Radio extension adds WebSocket and Redis Pub/Sub. Top CSV benchmark results. ## [DuckDB Ecosystem: May 2025](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-may-2025/index.html) DuckDB news: Metabase driver queries Parquet files directly. FlockMTL integrates LLMs into SQL workflows. Doom clone runs in DuckDB-WASM. Spatial wins top honors. ## [DuckDB Ecosystem: March 2025](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-march-2025/index.html) DuckDB news: v1.2 adds Google Sheets extension for SQL on spreadsheets. Duckberg queries Iceberg tables via Python. Smallpond sorts 110TB in 30 min using Ray. ## [DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2025](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-february-2025/index.html) DuckDB news: DuckCon #6 runs TPC-H SF300 on Raspberry Pi. SQL/PGQ graph queries 10-100x faster than Neo4j. Arrow Flight enables concurrent read/write access. ## [DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2025](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-january-2025/index.html) DuckDB news: PyIceberg enables local Iceberg catalogs in Python. Zero-egress data sharing via Cloudflare R2. SQLFlow streams Kafka and Bluesky data with DuckDB SQL. ## [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2024](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-december-2024/index.html) DuckDB news: Query Bluesky social data via SQL. LLMs clean CRM data inside queries. Google Sheets extension launches. DuckDB-WASM powers sql-workbench.com browser IDE. ## [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2024](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-november-2024/index.html) DuckDB news: HTTP extension queries REST APIs in SQL. Unity Catalog integration via dbt. Pivot tables extension. Drug database demo processes 6M records per minute. ## [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2024](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-october-2024/index.html) DuckDB news: v1.1 hits 6M monthly Python downloads. Spark API compatibility layer added. Build RAG apps with GPT-4o embeddings. Extensions reach 17M monthly downloads. ## [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: September 2024](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-september-2024/index.html) DuckDB news: pg_duckdb brings analytical queries to PostgreSQL. Ibis makes DuckDB its default backend, dropping Pandas. Getting Started with DuckDB book released. ## [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: August 2024](/content/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-august-2024/index.html) DuckDB news: Ranked #3 most desired database (StackOverflow 2024). Community extensions launch with registry. Delta Lake support via kernel. Memory management deep dive.