MotherDuck scores $47.5m to prove scale-up databases are not quackers

Former BigQuery tech lead tells Reg about data-warehouse-on-your-laptop DuckDB Interview In analytical database systems, the story of the last ten years or more has been about building out. Only databases distributed over multiple nodes could cope with the scale required by so-called Big Data. Web and mobile data were driving demand for systems which scale out, rather than rely on more and more powerful single instances....