DuckDB Foundation
To build an easy-to-use, high-performance in-process SQL database management system for analytical workloads.
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- Data Engineers
- Data Scientists
- Software Engineers
- FinTech
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Products & Services
In-process SQL analytical database management system.
Enterprise support, advisory, and engineering services provided by the core contributors.
Market Position
SQLite-like simplicity with Snowflake-like performance for analytical queries on local or cloud-based data.
Leadership
Founders
Hannes Mühleisen
Co-creator of DuckDB, Co-founder & CEO of DuckDB Labs. Professor of Data Engineering at the Radboud University and researcher at CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica).
Mark Raasveldt
Co-creator of DuckDB, Co-founder & CTO of DuckDB Labs. Database systems researcher and lead architect of DuckDB's execution engine. Previously a researcher at CWI.
Executive Team
Hannes Mühleisen
CEO, DuckDB Labs
Creator of DuckDB and academic researcher in database systems.
Mark Raasveldt
CTO, DuckDB Labs
Lead architect of DuckDB and specialist in query execution.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
DuckDB originated from research at CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) by Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt. It was designed to solve the 'SQLite for Analytics' problem. DuckDB Labs was later spun off to provide commercial services.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Commercial support, consulting, advisory services, and feature prioritization for DuckDB Labs. The Foundation is supported by donations and member contributions.
Pricing Tiers
Full features available under MIT license.
Enterprise support with guaranteed response times and advisory.
Target Markets
- Data Engineers
- Data Scientists
- Software Engineers
- FinTech
- Healthcare
- E-commerce
- Data engineering pipelines
- Interactive data analysis
- Embedded analytics in applications
- Cloud data lake querying
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