DuckDB announces latest release 0.8.0, "Fulvigula," with exciting new features

DuckDB, the in-process SQL OLAP database management system, has announced the latest release, version 0.8.0, named “Fulvigula” after the Mottled Duck (Anas Fulvigula) native to the Gulf of Mexico. This release includes several exciting new features that aim to improve user experience and performance.

This update includes:

• New pivot and unpivot statements
• Improvements to parallel data import/export
• Time series joins
• Recursive globbing
• Lazy-loading of storage metadata for faster startup times
• User-defined functions for Python
• Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) support
• New Swift integration

In summary, DuckDB's latest release, “Fulvigula,” introduces numerous exciting new features that aim to improve user experience and performance. Users can now enjoy faster data import/export, time-based analysis, file system searching, and custom Python functions, among other features. With this latest release, DuckDB continues to solidify its position as a leading in-process SQL OLAP database management system.