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Re:Design and Implementation of DuckDB Internals by viccis on Monday April 13, 2026 @09:35PM (#47760204)
Thank you, I didn't realize all of the course counted as "slides and auxiliary material" haha

edit: Really great stuff in here. Every day at work I think about how much I love DuckDB

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Re:Design and Implementation of DuckDB Internals by esafak on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @10:03AM (#47765807)
What do you use it for? What's the best part for you?
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Re:Design and Implementation of DuckDB Internals by goerch on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @12:34PM (#47767855)
Computing page rank on par with NetworkX: https://github.com/idesis-gmbh/WikiExperiments Educational local DW from Github Archive events: https://github.com/idesis-gmbh/GitHubExperiments

It is quite fast for OLAP applications. It works on low cost hardware.

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Re:Design and Implementation of DuckDB Internals by viccis on Friday April 17, 2026 @03:28PM (#47809632)
Sorry I missed this reply.

I'm currently using it to provide a SQL interface for doing data analytics for customers that don't have data large enough to justify a large platform like Snowflake or Databricks. Its syntax is close enough to the other two that, especially since the logic is already normalized through abstracted query definitions, it's a drop in replacement.

Given that it's so lightweight, I can use it run searches in an AWS Lambda function, which is crazy useful.

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