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Revisiting the Poor Man’s Data Lake with MotherDuck

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Post Details
Company
Date Published
Author
Pete Hunt
Word Count
1,681
Language
English
Hacker News Points
4
Summary

The text discusses the use of MotherDuck, a cloud service that hosts DuckDB tables, to replace an existing in-memory storage system. The author provides a step-by-step guide on how to connect to MotherDuck from the DuckDB CLI and integrate it with Dagster's IOManager abstraction. This allows for easy collaboration and scalability without touching business logic. The project demonstrates the benefits of using MotherDuck over S3 and Parquet, providing a robust, team-friendly data warehouse solution.