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AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database

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Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company

Amazon Web Services has bought DuckLabs, the support and development company behind open-source DuckDB.

The deal — the financial details of which were not disclosed — will see DuckLabs, founded by authors of the in-process OLAP database, become part of AWS.

AWS said DuckDB and its related projects would remain free and open source under their MIT licenses, with the nonprofit DuckDB Foundation continuing to guide them.

Written in C++, the database is embedded within a host process and, as such, there is no DBMS server software to install, update, or maintain. For example, the DuckDB Python package can run queries directly on data in Python software library Pandas without importing or copying data.

The brainchild of academics at Amsterdam's Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica mathematical and theoretical computing research center, DuckDB first went public in 2022...

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