--- title: Thank You for 40 000 Stars on GitHub – DuckDB | daily.dev description: DuckDB has reached 40,000 GitHub stars. Since the 30,000-star milestone in summer 2025, the project released DuckDB 1.4.0 (first LTS release) and 1.5.0,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/thank-you-for-40-000-stars-on-github-duckdb-fv47kakd6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Thank You for 40 000 Stars on GitHub – DuckDB | daily.dev og:description: DuckDB has reached 40,000 GitHub stars. Since the 30,000-star milestone in summer 2025, the project released DuckDB 1.4.0 (first LTS release) and 1.5.0,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/thank-you-for-40-000-stars-on-github-duckdb-fv47kakd6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FV47KaKD6.png og:image:alt: Thank You for 40 000 Stars on GitHub – DuckDB 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. # Thank You for 40 000 Stars on GitHub – DuckDB **[DuckDB](https://daily.dev/sources/duckdb)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DuckDB has reached 40,000 GitHub stars. Since the 30,000-star milestone in summer 2025, the project released DuckDB 1.4.0 (first LTS release) and 1.5.0, launched the DuckLake 1.0 lakehouse standard, and introduced the Quack remote protocol enabling client-server multi-writer setups. Community metrics have surged: 8M+ monthly unique visitors to duckdb.org, 2 PB in extension download traffic, and 50M+ monthly PyPI downloads. The team also hosted multiple meetups and DuckCon #7. Notable community highlights include streaming analytics use cases, graph query support via SQL/PGQ, Iceberg-in-browser capabilities, C# extension development, and Spotify's production use of DuckDB. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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