Ask HN: Who's Using DuckDB in Production?
yakkomajuri Friday, January 16, 2026Inspired by the post that's on the front page as I write this [1] I'm interested to hear about who's using DuckDB in production and how.
We have a tool live that uses it and I'm quite happy so I'm both looking for interesting use cases from others but also to be honest I'm reasonably sure I've just identified today that DuckDB is leaking memory quite seriously [2] so I'm curious to hear if other people have noticed this or if it's maybe something that's not as relevant to others since people might be running DuckDB pipelines in ephemeral envs like lambdas etc. where a memory leak might not matter as much.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645176
[2] https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/20569
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