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5 posts tagged “DuckDB”.

  1. 29 min read

    Postgres Meets the Lakehouse: pg_lake, pg_duckdb, and When Postgres Is Enough

    For a long time the answer to "we need analytics on our Postgres data" was a pipeline. Replicate the transactional tables into a warehouse or a lake,…

  2. 30 min read

    Serverless Iceberg Ingestion with PyIceberg and DuckDB: Micro-Batches Without a Spark Cluster

    A team has 40 event feeds landing in an object store. Most of them produce a few hundred megabytes an hour. A handful spike to a few gigabytes during…

  3. 30 min read

    Can Seven Different Iceberg REST Catalogs Really Run the Same DuckDB Code?

    A question has been making the rounds in lakehouse circles this year, usually phrased with some disbelief: someone points DuckDB, the in-process…

  4. 31 min read

    Building Lightweight Serverless Ingestion to Apache Iceberg with PyIceberg and DuckDB

    The most common ingestion job in most companies is small. A vendor drops a CSV in a bucket every hour. A webhook delivers a few thousand JSON events…

  5. 30 min read

    The Whole Lakehouse Fits on Your Laptop Now

    A colleague spent forty minutes last month provisioning a cluster to profile a 90 GB Parquet dataset. Startup, dependency resolution, a permissions…

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