Re:DuckDB – in-process SQL OLAP database management system
by jetter on Saturday February 11, 2023 @02:01PM
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I use Clickhouse to store close to 1TB of API analytics data (which would be 10TB in MongoDB, Clickhouse has insane compression ) and it's a wonderful and stable SQL-first alternative to DuckDB - which is a very exciting piece of software, but is indeed too young to embed into boring production. The last time I checked DuckDB npm package, it used callbacks instead of awaits..
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Re:DuckDB – in-process SQL OLAP database management system
by antonycourtney on Saturday February 11, 2023 @09:41PM
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I can understand how the older callback API for node.js might form a negative impression, but it's really not indicative of the maturity of the core db engine at all. And remember: the vast majority of users use the Python API.
Even better news is that, as of a couple of months ago, there is now this package (which I wrote at MotherDuck and we have open sourced) which provides typed promise wrappers for the Duckdb API: https://www.npmjs.com/package/duckdb-async. This is an independent npm package for now, but was developed in close coordination with the DuckDb core team.