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by snicker7 1666 days ago
DuckDB is an embedded database. That is, it is a library one loads into their application. This is in contrast to a server database like Postgres where the database and application live on different processes (usually on different machines).

DuckDB is often compared to SQLite. But a more apt comparison might be KDB+, a proprietary vector embedded database.