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Re:A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation chal... by adammarples on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:59PM (#45697974)
I have been playing today with ducklake, and I have to confess I don't quite get what it does that duckdb doesn't already do, if duckdb can just run on top of parquet files quite happily without this extension...
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Re:A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation chal... by RobinL on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:01PM (#45698521)
It's main purpose is to solve the problem of upserts to a data lake, because upsert operations to file based data storage are a real pain.
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