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- I recently learned this, and wished someone had written this for me,
it would have motivated me to try it out much earlier.
- Give a rough summary of what I learned and why it's so cool
- On ASC blog to promote research software in general.
- To review
- This is a first draft, the random stuff I could think of.
- Are any major topics missing? (it's not made to be a sql intro,
but comparison to sqlite)
- Are there any extra examples to give?
- Any other wrap-up?
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| The extra advantages of DuckDB are: | ||
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| - Column oriented, which makes it much faster for analytics |
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what means "column oriented"? or perhaps, column oriented in contrast to what typical other setup?
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Great post!
What would be a use case? Embedding the database? Or the software reading/writing it? It would be also nice to show an example where the one is a much better fit than the other. |
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it would have motivated me to try it out much earlier.
but comparison to sqlite)