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Check out this post for some comparisons with Pandas. https://duckdb.org/2021/05/14/sql-on-pandas.html https://duckdb.org/2021/05/14/sql-on-pandas.html DuckDB is often faster than Pandas, and it can handle larger than memory data. Plus, if you already know SQL, you don't have to become a Pandas expert to be productive in Python data munging. Pandas is still good, but now you can mix and match with SQL!