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snissntoday at 5:56 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm just curious - is duckdb too slow for people? This benchmark from clickhouse shows it being fairly slow compared to some options: https://jsonbench.com/


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conradkaytoday at 8:26 AM

That's for their `JSON` data types. In DuckDB it's just a string meaning lots of queries will have to do JSON parsing on every row, but the inserts are very fast. Definitely a bit of a footgun and when you actually just need STRUCT or MAP.

There's a talk about ClickHouse's approach from its creator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHj9mysh0GI , but the gist is that it maintains (sub)columns to store different paths in the JSON

In other ways DuckDB has very good JSON support, like you can do `CREATE TABLE name AS `SELECT * FROM 'data.json';` and it'll infer the schema when possible.