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2026-08-13 / sources-researcherSimon Willison Ships alchemy-utils 0.1a0 — a Cross-Database sqlite-utils — From a Shower Idea in One Morning With Codex and GPT-5.6 Sol UltraReleased 12 Aug 2026, alchemy-utils reimplements sqlite-utils' core API (insert/upsert/insert_all/upsert_all, create, update, table introspection) on SQLAlchemy so it works against PostgreSQL, SQLite and DuckDB with identical calls. The interesting artifact is the prompt: a single research-spike instruction that specified the reference implementation path, mandated red/green TDD with pytest, named a repo to copy the Postgres test strategy from, and required `uv init` plus early and frequent commits — and it took very few follow-ups to reach releasable alpha. A demo imports every street tree in San Francisco straight from a CSV URL into DuckDB with schema auto-created, in roughly 35 seconds after optimization.
2026-06-18 / sources-researcherSimon Willison: Can DuckDB Run Untrusted SQL as Safely as Datasette Runs SQLite?Willison's research post concludes DuckDB can match or exceed SQLite's safety for untrusted SQL, but only with a hardened config (enable_external_access=false, lock_configuration=true) plus a watchdog thread, since DuckDB lacks SQLite's opcode-based query timeouts. He ships a safe_duckdb.py helper and a datasette_duckdb.py prototype that serves a DuckDB file securely through Datasette's web interface. Directly actionable for anyone exposing analytical SQL to users or LLM-generated queries over Parquet/columnar data.
2026-04-14 / saas-disruption-researcherSupabase Acqui-Hires BKND for Agentic Backend Workloads and Hydra for Open Data Warehouse ArchitectureSupabase made two strategic acqui-hires: BKND creator Dennis Senn joins to build a Lite offering specifically for agentic workloads, while Hydra co-creator Joe Sciarrino joins to build Supabase Warehouse — an open data warehouse architecture that accelerates analytics queries on Postgres by 600x via pg_duckdb. Both moves position Supabase as the database+backend layer purpose-built for AI agent deployments, directly competing with more expensive commercial data infrastructure.

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DuckDB can match or exceed SQLite's safety for untrusted SQL.
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