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Co-creator of DuckDB, the embedded analytical database, and co-founder of DuckDB Labs, the company recently acquired by AWS.
The engine stays in-process and MIT-licensed, so a vendored copy keeps working after the deal closes. What changes is who decides which storage paths get engineering attention, and the post names six AWS services.
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DuckLabs keeps its Amsterdam desks and the MIT license still holds. The change is who pays for the roadmap, and what that does to a database compiled into your product.
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AWS says the DuckDB projects stay free and open under an independent foundation. The people who write them join AWS by early September, on terms nobody disclosed.
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The MIT-licensed projects stay with the DuckDB Foundation, but the more than 30 people who write them would sit on AWS's payroll. No reporting line has been published.
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The creators of the embedded analytics engine are adding the client-server layer their original design deliberately left out. Treat v2.0 as a provisioning decision, not an upgrade.
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