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> With DuckDB, it’s like you can build your own AWS Athena at likely a fraction of the cost Isn't the whole purpose of Athena to scale to large amounts of data
by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
> With DuckDB, it’s like you can build your own AWS Athena at likely a fraction of the cost
Isn't the whole purpose of Athena to scale to large amounts of data that don't fit into memory? How does duckdb fit in here? I thought it's an in-memory database?
- lmeyerov 4y agoYep, dask_sql is probably a better comparison here (and similarly arrow-friendly). We've been having pretty good experiences here, though clearly young. For in-process, we're sticking with pandas/cudf (GPU dataframes), and likewise still Arrow for IO interop, so easy hand-off.
- 1egg0myegg0 4y agoDuckDB is not only an in memory DB - it can persist data and handle larger than RAM workloads. We are expanding the number of operators that can handle larger than memory data, but it is a key design goal!