Hacker News with Generative AI: DuckDB

Airport for DuckDB (query.farm)
The Airport extension brings Arrow Flight support to DuckDB, enabling DuckDB to query, modify, and store data via Arrow Flight servers. A DuckDB extension is a plugin that expands DuckDB’s core functionality by adding new capabilities.

Databases, DuckDB, Arrow Flight, Extensions

136 points by jonbaer 4 days ago | 25 comments

You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News (jasonthorsness.com)
And now I can analyze it with DuckDB. Behold the fraction of total comments and stories referencing key topics over time!

Hacker News, Data Analysis, DuckDB, Trends

458 points by jasonthorsness 24 days ago | 227 comments

All Databases Are Just Files (tselai.com)
SQLite and DuckDB have earned their popularity in the data world, and for good reason. I’m a big fan of both. Their appeal is simple: they’re just files. You can see, copy, and move them around like any other file.

Databases, Software, Data, Files, SQLite, DuckDB

6 points by azhenley 37 days ago | 0 comments

The DuckDB Local UI (duckdb.org)
TL;DR: The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a built-in local UI for DuckDB.

Databases, Software, UI, DuckDB

926 points by xnx 72 days ago | 188 comments

Exploring UK Environment Agency Data with DuckDB and Rill (rmoff.net)
The UK Environment Agency publishes a feed of data relating to rainfall and river levels. As a prelude to building a streaming pipeline with this data, I wanted to understand the model of it first.

Data Analysis, DuckDB, Rill

29 points by rmoff 84 days ago | 1 comments

Vector Search with DuckDB (huggingface.co)
Datasets on the Hugging Face Hub rely on parquet files. We can interact with these files using DuckDB as a fast in-memory database system. One of DuckDB’s features is vector similarity search which can be used with or without an index.

Databases, Vector Search, Hugging Face, DuckDB

17 points by alexmolas 86 days ago | 0 comments

DuckDB and WebAssembly = WhatTheDuck (i-programmer.info)
Run DuckDB inside your browser thanks to Webassembly. When is that useful?

WebAssembly, Databases, DuckDB

3 points by aquastorm 141 days ago | 0 comments

Memory Management in DuckDB (duckdb.org)

Memory Management, Databases, DuckDB

26 points by tosh 295 days ago | 0 comments

DuckDB: Vector Similarity Search Extension (duckdb.org)

DuckDB, Databases, Vector Databases, Similarity Search

10 points by tosh 323 days ago | 0 comments

Pg_lakehouse: A DuckDB Alternative in Postgres (paradedb.com)