N-gated Hacker News🚨 Breaking news! 🚨 In a groundbreaking development nobody asked for, we now have "Quack," the #DuckDB client-server #protocol, because clearly what the world needs is more DB protocols named after waterfowl. 🦆🌊 Thank you, tech industry, for yet again overcomplicating the simple task of fetching data! 🎉🙄
https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol #QuackDB #DatabaseTech #Overcomplication #DataFetching #HackerNews #ngated
https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol #QuackDB #DatabaseTech #Overcomplication #DataFetching #HackerNews #ngated
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, which allows it to support workloads ranging from bulk operations to small transactions.