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Re:DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supp... by mytherin on Sunday September 20, 2020 @05:06AM (#24532823)
Those formats have a different use case from a database system - they are mostly designed for write once, read many times workloads. As far as I’m aware you cannot update them in an ACID compliant manner, for example, which makes it difficult to use them as backend for an ACID database system.
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