DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features
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HN comment orderI spent a while looking at this today. It's really interesting. It's not based on SQLite at all (except for borrowing the SQLite shell implementation) but it looks very much like SQLite, in particular: - It's designed to work as an embedded library, eliminating the network overhead you usually get when talking to a database - Each database is a single file on disk - It ships as an "amalgamation" build - a single giant C++ file (SQLite is a…
DuckDB is terrific. I'm bullish on its potential for simplifying many big data pipelines. Particularly, it's plausible that DuckDB + Parquet could be used on a large SMP machine (32+ cores and 128GB+ memory) to deal with data munging for 100s of gigabytes to several terabytes, all from SQL, without dealing with Hadoop, Spark, Ray, etc. I have successfully used DuckDB like above for preparing an ML dataset from about 100GB of input. DuckDB is undergoing rapid development these days…
I want to try DuckDB but it fails to load a Parquet file: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/3969
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
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| 2020-09-20 | DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres featuresFirst breakout · Best thread | pcr910303 | 801 | 160 |
| 2022-06-25 | DuckDB, In-Process SQL OLAP DB | wiradikusuma | 1 | 1 |
| 2023-02-10 | DuckDB – in-process SQL OLAP database management systemLatest 20+ point return | freilanzer | 161 | 103 |