DuckDB ecosystem January roundup: Iceberg, AI Agents & 1TB Benchmarks

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DuckDB ecosystem January 2026 roundup covering major updates: Iceberg extension now supports full DML operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) with improved metadata handling; DuckDB-Wasm enables browser-based Iceberg queries; TypeScript scripts can function as table functions via shellfs extension; benchmarks show 1TB dataset processing in under 30 seconds on MotherDuck and under 20 minutes on single-node setups; new extensions include QuackFIX for FIX protocol logs, Onager for graph analytics with 40+ Rust-implemented functions, and Tera for SQL templating; MotherDuck's MCP server enables AI agents to perform analytics through natural language; Quack-Cluster provides serverless distributed query execution using Ray.

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2026