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DuckDB

An in-process analytical database that makes data exploration effortless.

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90Associated recommendation signals
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2026-08-19Latest indexed mention

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@christoff12Recommendation signal
I love reading all of the DuckDB love here.
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@otter-in-a-suitRecommendation signal
I use duckdb for both analytics and runtime,
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@rrgokRecommendation signal
Sometimes I prefer DuckDB query language to MySQL or Postgres.
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@swasheckRecommendation signal
i’m curious because i love duckdb and use it for a variety of projects
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@mastermageRecommendation signal
I love DuckDB genuinely more than sqlite even though they do completely different things
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@markus_zhangRecommendation signal
I like DuckDB somehow.
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@quagRecommendation signal
I love using duckdb and frequently query directly from zstd compressed files (and write out new ones).
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@arealaccountRecommendation signal
We use DuckDB WASM with parquet to build dashboards in-browser.
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@drums8787Recommendation signal
We use WASM DuckDB as the target for an in-browser agentic feature.
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@abirchRecommendation signal
I love DuckDB!
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@kianNRecommendation signal
It really is - we use duckdb as our main workhorse in our entire stack.
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@cgopalanRecommendation signal
Yes DuckDB is amazing, and I use it in more than one of my projects.
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