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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by radus on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:10PM (#28227215)
Would DuckDB (https://duckdb.org/) work as your file format with enforced column types?
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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by shadowwolf007 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:20PM (#28229279)
We looked at it and there were a few problems we had with where it would force us to put VMs that we just weren't super comfortable with due to the in-process-ness.

More a byproduct of decisions made 5 - 7 years ago when the company was in raw startup mode versus a more mature roadmap.

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