Inspiring Computing

DuckDB - All the benefits of a database, none of the hassle

Gareth Thomas Season 1 Episode 3

In this episode, we talk to Pedro Holanda  who explains the motivation of why it's so useful to create a company around helping data scientists, use databases. In other words, people tend to use Pandas and CSV files a lot. And this sparked his curiosity alongside a few co-founder, of why is there not a better way of using databases for data scientists?

We explore how duckDB achieved  getting over 2 million downloads per month and how the secret source of making things as easy contributed to that success. 

We explore some of the technical differences between SQLite and duckDB, but also a bit of the technicalities of optimising storage memory and adaptation, talking of how to develop extensions and effectively. How does the DuckDB labs as a company got going  and where they're actually going in the future.

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