[mmsimanga]

IMHO if ClickHouse had Windows native release that does not need WSL or a Linux virtual machine it would be more popular than DuckDB. I remember for years MySQL being way more popular than PostgreSQL. One of the reasons being MySQL had a Windows installer.

[skeptrune]

Is Clickhouse not already more popular than DuckDB?

[nasretdinov]

28k stars on GitHub for DuckDB vs 40k for ClickHouse - pretty close. But, anecdotally, here on HN DuckDB gets mentioned much more often

[codedokode]

I was under impression that servers and databases generally run on Linux though.

[mmsimanga]

Windows still runs on 71% of the desktop and laptops [1]. In my experience a good number of applications start life on simple desktops and then graduate to servers if they are successful. I work in the field of analytics. I have a locked down Windows desktop and I have been able to try out all the other databases such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and DuckDB because they have windows installers or portable apps. I haven't been able to try out ClickHouse. This is my experience and YMMV.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

[codedokode]

Fair point, but if your desktop is locked down then you might not be able to use administrator privileges that many programs require for installation (especially software that uses DRM and licenses). So you might be not able to run the software even if there was a Windows version.

[anentropic]

surely you have Docker though?