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MotherDuck

Hosting Service

MotherDuck is a serverless cloud analytics platform and cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB. Its supports a hybrid model where users can push local DuckDB queries to run in MotherDuck's cloud platform.

Website
https://motherduck.com[01]
Tech Docs
https://motherduck.com/docs/getting-started/[02]
Country of Origin
US
Start Year
2022
Project Type
Commercial
Compatible With
DuckDB
License
Proprietary
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MotherDuck[03]

Database Entry

MotherDuck

Hosting Service

MotherDuck is a serverless cloud analytics platform and cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB. Its supports a hybrid model where users can push local DuckDB queries to run in MotherDuck's cloud platform.

Hosted Systems

DuckDB DuckDB Relational

Compression

Dictionary Encoding Delta Encoding Run-Length Encoding Bit Packing / Mostly Encoding

Same as DuckDB

Data Model

Relational

Same as DuckDB

Parallel Execution

Intra-Operator (Horizontal) Inter-Operator (Vertical)

Same as DuckDB

Query Execution

Vectorized Model

Query Interface

SQL Model Context Protocol

Storage Architecture

Hybrid

Storage Format

Parquet Arrow

Same as DuckDB

Storage Model

Decomposition Storage Model (Columnar)

System Architecture

Shared-Disk

Citations

3 sources
  1. MotherDuck | The Cloud Data Warehouse Built on DuckDB motherduck.com
  2. Getting Started | MotherDuck Docs motherduck.com
  3. MotherDuck - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
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