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quasarj05/04/20252 repliesview on HN

I've been out of the loop on DuckDB, where can I get a real overview of what the excitement is about? It just looks like a new sqlite from the CLI...


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Groxx05/04/2025

It's essentially a column-oriented sqlite, so it's much faster for some kinds of queries. There's a big market for that category of queries, and nobody wants to run their own hadoop cluster to do single-machine-scale stuff.