# Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?

> Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out." [**Read more**](https://vonng.com/en/cloud/rds-duckdb/)