[dang]

Recent and related:

DuckDB 0.9 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37657736 - Sept 2023 (59 comments)

[kristianp]

Moderation note: the actual title of this article is "Updates to the H2O.ai db-benchmark!".

It's not about duckdb's performance improvements per se, it's about the change to the aws instance type they're using to get fairer benchmark results by avoiding block storage and preventing noisy neighbors.

[vgt]

From the article itself:

"The team at DuckDB Labs has been hard at work improving the performance of the out-of-core hash aggregates and joins."

Aside from that, since April DuckDB has vastly improved performance of a number of queries, including aggregates, joins, window functions. [0]

[0] https://duckdb.org/2023/09/26/announcing-duckdb-090.html#cor...

[kristianp]

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

Just because they mention X in the article, doesn't mean you should change the title to X, even if X is nice, welcome news.

[vgt]

That sounds great and i will do that from now on. That said, the substance of my reply holds...

[dang]

Changed now. Thanks!

(Submitted title was "DuckDB performance improvements with the latest release")