--- title: DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : September 2026 | daily.dev description: The September DuckDB ecosystem roundup covers two major acquisitions - AWS acquiring DuckLabs (the company behind DuckDB, with core projects staying... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a9yksfjox twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : September 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The September DuckDB ecosystem roundup covers two major acquisitions - AWS acquiring DuckLabs (the company behind DuckDB, with core projects staying... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a9yksfjox og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/A9YKsFjox.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : September 2026 **[DuckDB dev](https://daily.dev/sources/duckdbdev)** · [@sspaeti](https://daily.dev/sspaeti) · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The September DuckDB ecosystem roundup covers two major acquisitions - AWS acquiring DuckLabs (the company behind DuckDB, with core projects staying MIT-licensed under the DuckDB Foundation) and MotherDuck acquiring Tower.dev to power AI data agent infrastructure. DuckDB v2.0-alpha ('Cyanoptera') has landed with a client/server mode via Quack, a new PEG-based SQL parser, revised C API, and new storage format, targeting an October release. Other highlights include pure-Java table functions for querying JVM data sources via SQL, a community MSSQL extension update cutting bulk-load times for 38M rows from 933s to 96s, a Rust-based Zarr extension for querying N-dimensional scientific arrays, a DuckLake vs Iceberg benchmark showing far lower metadata overhead for CDC pipelines, DuckDB v1.5.3's Iceberg REST catalog support, a JetBrains plugin for instant billion-row Parquet visualization, an infinite-canvas data exploration tool (sql.garden), and a benchmark showing DuckDB outperforming SQLite for observability workloads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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