After a week’s holiday ("vacation", for y’all in the US) without a glance at anything work-related, what joy to return and find that the DuckDB folk have been busy, not only with the recent 1.3.0 DuckDB release, but also a brand new project called DuckLake. Here are my brief notes on DuckLake. Getting our ducks in a row Let’s be clear: Naming things is hard. Even so, the DuckLake name is confusing because it implies a tight-coupling to DuckDB where there is none (other than the ownershi...