DuckDB: Fast Analytical Queries on Local Data
Posted by: gandhiman
DuckDB is seriously underrated. It's like SQLite but optimized for analytics workloads. We use it for local data analysis and it crushes Pandas for anything beyond a few million rows. Column-oriented storage makes aggregations blazing fast.
Source: https://duckdb.org/why_du...
Score: 30
Category: database
Added: 2025-12-29 11:30:00
gandhiman
Exactly! And it runs in-process so no server to manage. Perfect for local analytics workflows.
billman
The Parquet integration is seamless too. Query data lakes directly without loading into memory.
Thomas
DuckDB is a game changer. We replaced several Python data processing scripts with just SQL queries.