From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290512: > DuckDB is indeed a free columnar database system, but it is

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290512: > DuckDB is indeed a free columnar database system, but it is not entirely built on top of SQLite. It exposes the same front-end and uses components of SQLite (the shell and testing infrastructure), but the execution engine/storage code is new.