2025-06-06

30 000 Stars on GitHub

The DuckDB team

The duckdb/duckdb GitHub repository has just passed 30 000 stars!

We would like to use this event to stop for a moment and revisit recent developments in the DuckDB ecosystem since last December, not even six months ago, when we reached 25 000 stars.

Recent Updates

• We released DuckDB 1.2.0 and DuckDB 1.3.0, both packing many new features, performance optimizations and bugfixes.
• We published the DuckLake specification, an open format for SQL-as-a-lakehouse. For details, read the announcement blog post and its coverage in the Register.
• DuckDB now has a built-in UI.
• DuckDB now supports Iceberg REST Catalog, which also allows it to connect to Amazon S3 Tables
• We published the much-requested roadmap.
• Coincidentally, this is the 100th post on our blog.

Metrics

Besides the GitHub stars we have also observed a lot of growth in other metrics:

• Each month, our website now welcomes over 3 million unique visitors – more than double than in December. We also see over 700 TB in traffic from millions of extension downloads. Thanks again to Cloudflare for sponsoring the project.
• Just in this calendar year, we rose 10 positions in the DB Engines ranking from position 55 to 45.
• We now count 20M+ monthly downloads in PyPI.

We would like to reiterate that while we’re happy to see these numbers grow, we are not glorifying them and they are not a target per se in accordance with Goodhart’s law.

Events

We hosted the first livestreamed DuckCon in Amsterdam and organized another DuckDB Meetup.

Closing Thoughts

That’s it for today. We would like to thank our community of users and contributors! We are looking forward to keep growing our community and hope the GitHub stars follow. We’ll report back when we reach 40,000 stars.