DuckDB
In-process columnar analytics engine, SQLite's shape, a warehouse's execution model.
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What DuckDB is
DuckDB is an embedded analytical database from CWI Amsterdam, now maintained by DuckDB Labs with the IP held by a non-profit foundation. It uses vectorised columnar execution across all cores, reads Parquet, CSV, JSON, S3 and live PostgreSQL
tables without loading them first, and is included here as the analytical contrast rather than as an OLTP option, it has no replication and a single-process write path.