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twoodfinyesterday at 8:08 PM1 replyview on HN

The use case is local user DuckDB talking to MotherDuck for $.

This is not commercially a terrible idea. Why keep paying Snowflake for bog-standard SQL query workload when SF makes it easy to migrate to Iceberg & commodity engines like MotherDuck?


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szarnyasgyesterday at 8:15 PM

Hello, DuckDB DevRel here. Quack is independent from MotherDuck. MotherDuck has its own proprietary protocol, which has been around for years and it supports things like dual execution – see more here:

https://duckdb.org/quack/faq#what-is-the-relationship-betwee...

Of course, in the future MotherDuck can also support Quack, but this is not the only interesting use case for Quack.

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