Postgres Powered by DuckDB: The Modern Data Stack in a Box
published on 2024/08/17
One of the most surprising and disruptive aspects of DuckDB is that it is taking fast analytics away from the complex world of distributed systems back into the much simpler single-machine realm. While transactional database systems like PostgreSQL can be distributed, the vast majority of database systems run on a single machine. Hence, we now have two state-of-the-art, open source OLAP & OLTP systems which we can reasonably run together on the same machine.