• ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    I will be honest. I just read that article and I have no idea what any of it is talking about.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    It seems like the singular benefit is that DuckDB (or similar OLAP models) can quickly handle lots of expensive read queries on large datasets.

    It’s not a replacement for a traditional RDBMS. I’ve never used it so I don’t know if it’s worth the effort to maintain instead of just using a Postgres read-only instance to run analytics queries but somehow I doubt it.

    My guess would be that it has a few very specific use cases where it can provide some added benefit. So, I fully expect it to be crammed forcefully into software projects where it provides no tangible benefit for the foreseeable future. Just like cough MongoDB cough.

  • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Data scientist here, duckDB is the best. I use it all the time in notebooks where I have a data frame and I want to query it like SQL. In memory duckdb database to the rescue.