EEdna Maina4d ago · 9 min readEmbedded retail analytics with DuckDB, dbt, Polars, and FastAPIMost small and mid-sized retail datasets fit comfortably on a single laptop, yet teams often rent expensive cloud data warehouses to query a few million rows. The Deterministic SME Retail Analytics Enqdrant.hashnode.dev
BBrice Luu5d ago · 10 min readThe spec already wrote half your ingestion scriptYou need the data from some API. There's no connector for it, or the connector costs more than the problem. So you write a script. The first version is twenty lines. A token in a header, a loop over ?bluu.dev
IIT-CraftsmanOct 12 · 5 min read5 SQL window-function traps that show up in data engineering interviews (with runnable DuckDB examples)Window functions are the most common SQL topic in data engineering interviews, and most candidates know the syntax. The follow-up questions are where people stumble. Here are five traps, each with a titcraftsman.hashnode.dev
NNeeraj SharmaOct 12 · 5 min readDuckDB 2.0 on a 2 vCPU box: recursive queries 20x faster, VARIANT 80xMotherDuck's "Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster" was on the Hacker News front page this weekend. It benchmarks the 2.0 alpha against 1.5.5 on an M5 laptop and reports big wins: a recursive engine the DuckDB teaxionry.hashnode.dev
VVisuaLeaf - MongoDB Data WorkspaceSep 3 · 10 min readHow to Use DuckDB for Local Data AnalysisYou have data on your computer and want to explore it with SQL. It might be a CSV export, an existing database, or files produced by another analytical tool. Setting up a database server just to answevisualeaf.hashnode.dev
PPragnesh ShahAug 4 · 17 min readQuery Locally, Think Remotely: How DuckDB-Wasm Cuts LLM Token CostSubtitle: Using DuckDB-Wasm as an agent context layer to keep raw data local and send only small SQL results to the LLM. TL;DR DuckDB-Wasm runs entirely in a browser Web Worker — no backend data procpragmatic-builder.hashnode.dev
LLack StudioJul 30 · 5 min readDuckDB in the Browser – No Installation RequiredRun DuckDB in Your Browser – No Installation Required In the realm of analytical databases, the ability to execute DuckDB queries directly within a web browser presents a significant advantage, eliminopen-ide.hashnode.dev
NNishikanta RayMay 10 · 33 min readWe Let an AI Break Our Analytics Platform — Here's Every Bug It FoundGithub Main- https://github.com/NishikantaRay/InsightTrack Passmark - https://github.com/NishikantaRay/InsightTrack/tree/main/appsv2/passmark-tests InsightTrack — 17 pages, dual-database architectu65NSEblog.nishikanta.in
MMadukoma BlessedApr 23 · 12 min readRebuilding by Removing: How I Made My Sports Analytics Pipeline 20x FasterAthletic performance data contains patterns. Some patterns reflect natural improvement through training. Others represent statistical outliers that warrant investigation. My thesis explored a fundamenmblessed.hashnode.dev
HhelianthusApr 17 · 8 min readDuckDB in the Wild: What 6 Minutes of Benchmarking Across 4 Machines Taught Me About Real-World PerformanceThis is not a lab benchmark. It is an engineering gut-check: same query, different machines, different storage. The numbers are messy, the comparisons are unfair, and yet they are surprisingly useful.wasteland.hashnode.dev