DuckDB Explained: When a Database on Your Laptop Beats SQLite, Polars and BigQuery
For a decade the rule was simple: small data goes in pandas, big data goes in a warehouse, and...
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For a decade the rule was simple: small data goes in pandas, big data goes in a warehouse, and...
Ein Jahrzehnt lang galt eine einfache Regel: Kleine Daten kommen in pandas, große in ein Data...
Imagine asking an AI assistant for the average order value in a 12 GB sales export. It finds an...
You get a .parquet file and need to check what's in it. No Python, no Spark, ideally without...

The registry behind Iceberg's File Format API is keyed on a closed enum of formats and an open set of engine row types. This blog explains the API...

A comprehensive breakdown of Apache Parquet's internal architecture, explaining why it became the universal standard for modern data engineering and how to leverage cardinality sorting to dramatically reduce storage costs.

How Coperni serves the Copernicus air quality forecast for all of Europe with one daily Parquet file, DuckDB and HTTP range requests, for well under a euro a month.

Aug 25, 2026 · engineering Hybrid search runs two retrievers over one query. A keyword retriever...

TL;DR Working in AWS S3 / Athena, I constantly wanted to quickly inspect a Parquet file...
How I run 90-day video analytics over Parquet exports with DuckDB — no warehouse, no server. Covers
How we moved cross-region video analytics off SQLite onto DuckDB querying partitioned Parquet export
How I run ad-hoc video analytics without a warehouse: export SQLite to partitioned Parquet, query it