Re:DuckDB 0.7.0
by amelius on Monday February 13, 2023 @05:10AM
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From what I can gather, it's in-process, so less of a hassle when installing things or doing system administration. Also I suppose easier to port, and e.g. run in a browser. I guess any speed improvements wrt a DB running in a separate process will be tiny and irrelevant for most applications.
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> easier to port, and e.g. run in a browser
This has to be the main point, right? DuckDB isn't the first mover here (SQL.js, which is SQLite compiled to WASM using emscripten, seems to work fine), but perhaps DuckDB is better as a purpose-built solution.