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DuckDB

An in-process analytical database that makes data exploration effortless.

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2026-08-19Latest mention

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@christoff12
I love reading all of the DuckDB love here.
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I use duckdb for both analytics and runtime,
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@rrgok
Sometimes I prefer DuckDB query language to MySQL or Postgres.
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@swasheck
i’m curious because i love duckdb and use it for a variety of projects
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@mastermage
I love DuckDB genuinely more than sqlite even though they do completely different things
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@markus_zhang
I like DuckDB somehow.
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@quag
I love using duckdb and frequently query directly from zstd compressed files (and write out new ones).
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@arealaccount
We use DuckDB WASM with parquet to build dashboards in-browser.
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@drums8787
We use WASM DuckDB as the target for an in-browser agentic feature.
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@abirch
I love DuckDB!
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@kianN
It really is - we use duckdb as our main workhorse in our entire stack.
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@cgopalan
Yes DuckDB is amazing, and I use it in more than one of my projects.
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