Scaling DuckDB in the Cloud with MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani

The Database School Podcast by Aaron Francis
2025-12-11 · 65 min

Description

In this episode of Database School, Aaron Francis sits down with Jordan Tigani, co-founder and CEO of MotherDuck, to break down what DuckDB is, how MotherDuck hosts it in the cloud, and why analytics workloads are shifting toward embedded databases. They dig into Duck Lake, pricing models, scaling strategies, and what it really takes to build a modern cloud data warehouse.

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