Understanding DuckLake: A Table Format with a Modern Architecture

​@mehdio walks through a pragmatic video on DuckDB’s new release, DuckLake — a table format with a fresh architecture, setting it apart from peers like Iceberg and Delta Lake. 🎤 Want to learn more about DuckLake? Join Jordan Tigani and Hannes Mühleisen (co-creator of DuckDB) for an insightful online livestream: https://lu.ma/mt9f8xh1 📓 Resources DuckDB's blog announcement : https://duckdb.org/2025/05/27/ducklake.html DuckLake documentation : https://ducklake.select/ Github Gist of the code used in the video : https://gist.github.com/mehd-io/9afab092e807a4097864b09e7e9835e9 Supabase docs : https://supabase.com/docs Insteresting read on DuckLake : https://medium.com/@mcgeehan/quacks-stacks-5565069a5ef0 Blog about Table wars (Onehouse - Pauline Brown) : https://www.onehouse.ai/blog/the-open-table-format-war-merely-a-battle-on-the-path-to-engineering-a-truly-open-data-platform Blog about Table wars (Josue Bogran - @JosueBogranChannel) : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/table-format-wars-vendor-locks-delta-iceberg-what-really-bogran-vvdgf/ ➡️ Follow Us LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/motherduck X/Twitter : https://twitter.com/motherduck Blog: https://motherduck.com/blog/ 0:00 Intro 0:34 Recap on database, file format and table format 3:01 DuckLake architecture 4:57 Why DuckLake is fast 6:03 Hands-on queries with DuckLake, DuckDB & Supabase 15:07 Closing thoughts #ducklake #duckdb #dataengineering #ducklakevsiceberg #ducklakevsdeltalake