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by loxias 1693 days ago
I don't know what a DataFusion is, or what Arrow is, but DuckDB is, in my understanding (and use of it), an "almost" drop in replacement for SQLite, except with better performance.

Anytime you might want to use SQlite as an actual RDBMS (not as an easy disk fileformat), drop in DuckDB instead and get much better performance. DuckDB is actually designed to support OLAP.

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> Anytime you might want to use SQlite as an actual RDBMS (not as an easy disk fileformat), drop in DuckDB instead and get much better performance. DuckDB is actually designed to support OLAP.

Aren't RDBMS good at both OLAP and OLTP while not being the best at each?

Wouldn't SQLite still be better at OLTP?