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How Duckdb trended on Hacker News

Duckdb was mentioned 5,396 times on Hacker News between 2019 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2025 with 210 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Duckdb appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about Duckdb

1. 1.The DuckDB Local UI 926 points · 188 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features 801 points · 160 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
3. 3.DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade 491 points · 165 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database 406 points · 155 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware 395 points · 283 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI 378 points · 119 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Friendlier SQL with DuckDB 366 points · 133 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.DuckDB as the New jq 364 points · 73 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS 323 points · 73 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.DuckDB: SQLite for Analytics 290 points · 67 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite 273 points · 60 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark 263 points · 107 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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