Hannes Mühleisen, creator of DuckDB, joins Juan and Tim to discuss why tables keep coming back and how the pendulum always swings. They cover the background of DuckDB, how it started, dive into the internals, when to use it and when not to use it. And of course, a bit of discussion on AI. Topics discussed
Tables as the basic abstraction
The pendulum from schemaless back to schema
Physics and performance
Install experience drives adoption
Scale up versus scale out
When to use DuckDB
Graphs
Governance of local compute
Semantics belongs to other layers
AI and agents
Building a database company
Do we need more database systems?

<p>Hannes M&uuml;hleisen, creator of DuckDB, joins Juan and Tim to discuss why tables keep coming back and how the pendulum always swings. They cover the background of DuckDB, how it started, dive into the internals, when to use it and when not to use it. And of course, a bit of discussion on AI. Topics discussed</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Tables as the basic abstraction</li>
<li aria-level="1">The pendulum from schemaless back to schema</li>
<li aria-level="1">Physics and performance</li>
<li aria-level="1">Install experience drives adoption</li>
<li aria-level="1">Scale up versus scale out</li>
<li aria-level="1">When to use DuckDB</li>
<li aria-level="1">Graphs</li>
<li aria-level="1">Governance of local compute</li>
<li aria-level="1">Semantics belongs to other layers</li>
<li aria-level="1">AI and agents</li>
<li aria-level="1">Building a database company</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do we need more database systems?</li>
</ul>

Catalog and Cocktails is the honest, No-BS, non-sales-y podcast about data and analytics. This is your unfiltered chat about everything interesting in data and analytics. Join Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper to explore emerging topics and hear from thought leaders, practitioners and executives across the data and analytics space.

<p>Catalog and Cocktails is the honest, No-BS, non-sales-y podcast about data and analytics. This is your unfiltered chat about everything interesting in data and analytics. Join Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper to explore emerging topics and hear from thought leaders, practitioners and executives across the data and analytics space.</p>