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Re:DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, ... by goerch on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:39AM (#47865160)
Can confirm: together with `dbt` and `rill` I'm able do to [this](https://github.com/idesis-gmbh/GitHubExperiments/blob/master...) on my laptop.
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Re:DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, ... by steve_adams_86 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:44AM (#47865249)
Whoa, nice! I could see this being useful to people I work with. Do you think it would be a good setup for people who are technical but not great software developers? People who use basic R and Python for ETL and analysis, mostly.
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Re:DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, ... by goerch on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:50AM (#47865370)
I'm using DuckDB in another project (on my laptop) where `NetworkX` fails due to the memory limit of 32 GB. So yes, as soon as you are doing out of core work I'd assume the combination to be quite powerful. Knowledge in SQL would be a plus, though.
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Re:DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, ... by esafak on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:14PM (#47865695)
Why did you pick rill?
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Re:DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, ... by goerch on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:51PM (#47866142)
It is a educational/R&D type project. We are more of backend developers and `rill` worked fine as a rapid visualization frontend with low learning curve for us.

Edit: still realizing that I can't use markdown on HN...

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Re:DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, ... by rick1290 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:57PM (#47866208)
is rill open source?
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Re:DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, ... by goerch on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @01:54PM (#47866965)
https://github.com/rilldata/rill, Apache 2.0 license
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Re:DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, ... by janandonly on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:04PM (#47881020)
OP here. Thanks for sharing. This is why I keep coming back to HN.
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