slotix

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I read it less as "DuckDB wants to become Postgres" and more as DuckDB becoming an execution layer inside bigger workflows.

The engine is often not the painful part anymore. The pain is the stuff around it: live DBs, S3 paths, Parquet files, credentials, repeatable runs, exports, validation, and the moment a one-off script quietly becomes infrastructure.

Quack makes the remote/server part cleaner, but the bigger trend seems to be DuckDB becoming the SQL layer inside tools, not necessarily the final user-facing tool.

slotix

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

We are working on DBConvert Streams:

https://streams.dbconvert.com

A self-hosted database IDE with built-in migration, CDC, and DuckDB-powered federated SQL.

Mostly trying to remove the annoying gap between "I can inspect this database" and "I can safely move/sync this data somewhere else".

Current focus: resumable large loads and cleaner initial-load-to-CDC handoff for Postgres/MySQL.

slotix

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

We wrapped exactly this into a GUI - attach MySQL and PostgreSQL, files/ s3 as sources, query them together with DuckDB. No imports. https://streams.dbconvert.com/cross-database-sql

slotix

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Working on database tooling around data movement + CDC.

Trying to collapse what is usually:

SQL IDE -> export/scripts -> pipeline -> CDC -> back to SQL

into a single workflow instead of stitching 3–4 tools together.

Runs locally or via Docker, no Kafka / heavy setup.

https://streams.dbconvert.com/

slotix

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Happy to answer questions about architecture, tradeoffs, or specific use cases.

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