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Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by mritchie712 on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:07AM (#45633623)
Really excited about the future of DuckDB:

1. DuckLake is the best datalake spec and their team is improving on the extension rapidly.

2. With DuckDB WASM, you can make apps that would normally have 2 to 3 second latency for network calls work in < 200ms.

We use it as our built-in datalake at Definite and couldn't be happier with it.

0 - https://ducklake.select/

1 - https://www.definite.app/blog/ducklake

Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by curiousgal on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:14AM (#45633646)
I am curious is anyone using DuckDB in prod?
Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by mgaunard on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:22AM (#45633671)
of course, why wouldn't you?

I was using it even before it hit 1.0

Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by mritchie712 on Sunday October 19, 2025 @09:02AM (#45633824)
Yes, we run DuckDB + DuckLake in prod for https://www.definite.app/
Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by fluxkernel on Sunday October 19, 2025 @11:17AM (#45634799)
Is DuckLake compatible with Iceberg? I remember they create a new catalog.
Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by mlnj on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:28PM (#45635502)
Yes, you can use

INSTALL iceberg;

to start working with iceberg https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/iceberg/overv...

Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by matsonj on Sunday October 19, 2025 @02:12PM (#45636475)
Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by jsight on Sunday October 19, 2025 @10:01AM (#45634192)
Agreed. I just wish that the vector support were fully supported. It has been experimental for a long time.
Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by geysersam on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:44PM (#45636181)
I love duckdb but I don't understand your second point. How does duckdb wasm decrease the latency of network calls in your app?
Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by benrutter on Sunday October 19, 2025 @02:34PM (#45636689)
Not OP, but depending on your use case, client side operations could be a big deal.

Something like a dashboard app for instance, might have callbacks where it needs to run a new SQL query based on input, but be small enough to make loading all data onto menory and querying locally a mich faster option.

Obviously ymmv and if you have a dashboard with a heavy data set under the hood, your gonna make a lot of users unhappy fast by doing that.

Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by mritchie712 on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:46AM (#45642416)
for many uses cases, you can cache a dataset client side that can be re-queried to avoid network calls
Re:Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB by adsharma on Sunday October 19, 2025 @03:58PM (#45637415)
Love the DuckLake spec. Now there is something similar for Graphs.

https://adsharma.github.io/graph-archiving/ https://adsharma.github.io/beating-the-CAP-theorem-for-graph...

The catalog is based on the now archived kuzu graph db project. Development continuing here: https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug