DuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)

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mrtimo · 2026-04 · Strong recommendation

If you are a data scientist or do anything with data... duckdb is like a swiss army knife. So many great ways it can help your workflow. The original video from CMU in 2020 [1] is a classic. Minutes 3-8 present a good argument for adding duckdb to your data cleaning/processing workflow. And if you want to add a semantic layer on top of data, Malloy [2] is my favorite so far (it has duckdb built in): [1]: [VIDEO] [2]: [LINK]

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mrtimo · 2025-01 · Recommendation

Enjoyed his roundup in the "Shoving Ducks into Everything" section. DuckDB is a great tool. In April 2020, the creator of DuckDB gave a talk at CMU. In the beginning he makes a convincing argument (in 5 minutes) why data scientists don't use RDBMS and how this was the genesis of DuckDB. Here is a video that starts 3 minutes into the talk (where is argument starts): [VIDEO]

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kyllo · 2020-05 · Recommendation

I was wondering the same--I guess because it's fairly new (2018) and it came out of a database research group at a European university, rather than a SV tech firm. Therefore, limited marketing budget. By the way, here's a YT video of a talk given by one of the DuckDB implementers about why they made it, what it's for, and how it works: [VIDEO]

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