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When to use DuckDB
* Processing and storing tabular datasets, e.g. from CSV or Parquet files
* Interactive data analysis, e.g. Joining & aggregate multiple large tables
* Concurrent large changes, to multiple large tables, e.g. appending rows, adding/removing/updating columns
* Large result set transfer to client

When to not use DuckDB
* High-volume transactional use cases (e.g. tracking orders in a webshop)
* Large client/server installations for centralized enterprise data warehousing
* Writing to a single database from multiple concurrent processes
* Multiple concurrent processes reading from a single writable database


Tags: storage   relational  

Last modified 02 October 2024