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)

Paper ID: 516
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.9971118e-05
Overall Rank: 6,604 | 54.06%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,915	Runtime-Extensible Parsers	2025	CIDR	5.274713e-05
10,403	CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,719	Environmental Footprints of Query Processing: A Vision for Sustainable Database Architectures	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,749	Scaling GPU-Accelerated Databases beyond GPU Memory Size	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
35	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00076197749
167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039180521
418	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023729211
459	Processing Analytical Queries over Encrypted Data	2013	VLDB	0.00022627746
1,284	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00012837822
2,344	Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing	1996	SIGMOD	8.9992357e-05
2,443	Data Management for Data Science: Towards Embedded Analytics	2020	CIDR	8.8078476e-05
2,568	Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud	2021	VLDB	8.5239227e-05
3,607	Cache Tables: Paving the Way for an Adaptive Database Cache	2003	VLDB	6.9253431e-05
3,702	Every Row Counts: Combining Sketches and Sampling for Accurate Group-By Result Estimates	2019	CIDR	6.8295759e-05
4,262	Efficient Processing of Window Functions in Analytical SQL Queries	2015	VLDB	6.3117226e-05
4,717	Cloud Analytics Benchmark	2023	VLDB	5.9751539e-05
6,455	DuckDB-Wasm: Fast Analytical Processing for the Web	2022	VLDB	5.0569626e-05

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