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Re:DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supp... by Firerouge on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:03AM (#24532389)
Could you elaborate on some of the similarities and differences between DuckDB and MonetDB?
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Re:DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supp... by mkersten on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:19AM (#24532668)
Disclaimer: i am working on MonetDB and I established the CWI database architectures group

DuckDB is designed as an experimental system after heavy exposure to the technniques deployed in MonetDB (open-source), Hyper, and Vectorwise.

The properties of the embedded version of MonetDB can be found here https://monetdbe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#

Some difference between MonetDB and DuckDB can be found here https://monetdbe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/migrations.html

and the blogpost mentioned above is covered in https://twitter.com/MonetDB/status/1282412295235280901?s=20

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