Nicolas Lambert 🌏Real SQL databases in your browser, leveraging new Arrow and Parquet formats? 📣 It's now possible with #DuckDB, and in a great way! By @emauviere https://observablehq.com/@ericmauviere/duckdb-gives-new-life-to-sql
DuckDB gives new life to SQL
Real SQL databases in your browser, leveraging new Arrow and Parquet formats? 📣 It's now possible with DuckDB, and in a great way! Let's demonstrate it with a concrete example: the french statistical institute (Insee) publishes every year the baby names file in France in a CSV format. This table is quite heavy, it includes 3,800,000 records in its last version, published in June 2022, covering the years of birth from 1900 to 2021. Here is an extract: The CSV file weighs 80 Mb, the zipped version you can do
