DuckDB
An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features - DuckDB / github / HN
The creator of duckdb argues that people using pandas are missing out of the 50 years of progress in database research - HN - DuckDB Internals (CMU Advanced Databases / Spring 2023) - duck DB use a vectorized push-base model (implemented in C++) - support larger than memory execution - DuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)
- HN is a lightweight and super fast library/CLI for working with Parquet. It’s SQLite for column formats
- The DuckDB Local UI / HN - the UI is not open source.
- Should You Ditch Spark for DuckDb or Polars? / HN
- How does DuckDB compares to SQLite (chatGPT)
Written on September 20, 2020, Last update on April 16, 2025
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