Thursday, September 1, 2022

SQLite and DuckDB

Simon Willison (Hacker News):

SQLite: Past, Present, and Future is a newly published paper authored by Kevin P. Gaffney, Martin Prammer and Jignesh M. Patel from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and D. Richard Hipp, Larry Brasfield and Dan Kennedy from the core SQLite engineering team.

The paper compares SQLite and DuckDB, and describes some optimization work to make SQLite perform better for analytical queries.

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The primary difference is that DuckDB is optimized for analytical queries: queries that apply aggregate calculations across large numbers of rows, rather than being optimized for fast scanning and lookup of individual rows of data.

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