Tables Rock and DuckDB with Hannes Mühleisen

Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

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…

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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?

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Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

Catalog and Cocktails is the honest, No-BS, non-sales-y podcast about data and analytics. This is yo…