# Building a Data Lakehouse with DuckDB and DuckLake

DevFeed: [Building a Data Lakehouse with DuckDB and DuckLake](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-a-data-lakehouse-with-duckdb-and-ducklake-56876.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-data-lakehouse-with-duckdb-and-ducklake/>)

Author: Thomas Reid

Published: 2026-09-17T15:30:02Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Towards Data Science](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/towards-data-science.md>)

Topics: [DuckDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/duckdb.md>), [data lake](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-lake.md>), [parquet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/parquet.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Query (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/query.md>), [schema-evolution](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/schema-evolution.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-engineering.md>), [data-lake](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-lake.md>), [data-lakehouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-lakehouse.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [duckdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/duckdb.md>), [evolution](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evolution.md>), [lakehouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lakehouse.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [parquet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parquet.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on building a low-cost data lakehouse with DuckDB and the DuckLake extension. It explains the evolution from databases and data warehouses to data lakes, then covers Parquet files, metadata, transactions, schema evolution, and time travel.

## Source excerpt

Starting with a local Parquet file, then joining it to data stored in the cloud The post Building a Data Lakehouse with DuckDB and DuckLake appeared first on Towards Data Science.