Polars and duckdb interoperate so it's not really one or the other. Other dataframe libraries work directly on duckdb also, like Ibis. FWIW, I think SQLAlchem

Polars and duckdb interoperate so it's not really one or the other. Other dataframe libraries work directly on duckdb also, like Ibis. FWIW, I think SQLAlchemy does also. In any case though, I find both the SQL and the code there equally readable.