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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now embeds DuckDB to let users directly query live operational data alongside historical data in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats stored in S3 data lakes, eliminating the need for ETL pipelines and data duplication.
Snowflake's engineering blog details the new Postgres data mirroring feature that pushes changes via a snowflake_cdc extension into Iceberg tables, aiming for resilient, low-lag transactional replication.
A massive iceberg near Ilulissat, Greenland collapses and rolls over, captured in full on AfarTV's 4K livestream, illustrating the instability caused by melting and structural failure.
Streambed is an open-source CDC engine that streams Postgres WAL changes to Iceberg tables on S3, with a built-in query server using DuckDB that speaks the Postgres wire protocol.
DuckDB 1.5.2 adds production-ready DuckLake v1.0 lakehouse format, Iceberg extension improvements, Jepsen testing, and a revamped browser shell with file storage.