Updated: 3rd September 2020
A couple of weeks back I learnt about DuckDB while going over DB Weekly newsletter. It immediately caught my attention as I was able to quickly understand why need for such a database exist. Most developers are used to working with an embedded file based relational database in their local development environment. Most popular choice among embeddable RDBMS is SQLite. Developers use embeddable databases because there is no set up required and they can get started quickly in a couple of minutes. This enables quick prototyping and developers can quickly iterate on business features.
DuckDB is similar to SQLite in the sense it is also designed to be used as an embeddable database. Developers can easily include it as a library in their code and start using it. Later in this post, I will cover how we can use DuckDB with Python.
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Shekhar Gulati 