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The Practical Limits of DuckDB on Commodity Hardware
Community description: DuckDB shouldn’t work this well. It’s a single embedded library that needs no server, config, or...
Dev.to | Mar 10, 2026 | Prithwish Nath
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Query time (seconds) vs record count (millions). Query times: Near instantaneous, `< 3 seconds for everything. Even at 5M rows, the slowest query (you guessed it; a window function) takes just 3. 3 seconds.
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