MotherDuck: DuckDB in the cloud and in the client
Summary: MotherDuck: a service that connects DuckDB to the cloud and implements hybrid query processing—transparent split execution between client (including DuckDB-wasm) and cloud—letting data scientists scale and share databases without changing queries. Architecture leverages DuckDB extensions to enable collaborative sharing, low‑latency analytical web apps, and surfaces research problems in partitioning, scheduling, and data movement for hybrid execution. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. RJ Atwal (MotherDuck)
- 2. Peter Boncz (MotherDuck)
- 3. Ryan Boyd (MotherDuck)
- 4. Antony Courtney (MotherDuck)
- 5. Till Döhmen (MotherDuck)
- 6. Florian Gerlinghoff (MotherDuck)
- 7. Jeff Huang (MotherDuck)
- 8. Joseph Hwang (MotherDuck)
- 9. Raphael Hyde (MotherDuck)
- 10. Elena Felder (MotherDuck)
- 11. Jacob Lacouture (MotherDuck)
- 12. Yves LeMaout (MotherDuck)
- 13. Boaz Leskes (MotherDuck)
- 14. Yao Liu (MotherDuck)
- 15. Alex Monahan (MotherDuck)
- 16. Dan Perkins (MotherDuck)
- 17. Tino Tereshko (MotherDuck)
- 18. Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck)
- 19. Nick Ursa (MotherDuck)
- 20. Stephanie Wang (MotherDuck)
- 21. Yannick Welsch (MotherDuck)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{atwal_cidr24,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '24},
title = {{MotherDuck: DuckDB in the cloud and in the client}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Atwal, RJ and Boncz, Peter and Boyd, Ryan and Courtney, Antony and Döhmen, Till and Gerlinghoff, Florian and Huang, Jeff and Hwang, Joseph and Hyde, Raphael and Felder, Elena and Lacouture, Jacob and LeMaout, Yves and Leskes, Boaz and Liu, Yao and Monahan, Alex and Perkins, Dan and Tereshko, Tino and Tigani, Jordan and Ursa, Nick and Wang, Stephanie and Welsch, Yannick},
year = {2024}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 5,535 | Runtime-Extensible Parsers | 2025 | CIDR | 6.1828827e-05 |
| 10,689 | CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,962 | Environmental Footprints of Query Processing: A Vision for Sustainable Database Architectures | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,985 | Scaling GPU-Accelerated Databases beyond GPU Memory Size | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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