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A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
Coincidentally, I still have this laptop in the DuckDB Labs office, currently used by my kids to type their names in a massive font size or watch Bluey on YouTube when they're around. From the audited results on the TPC website, we can see that running the benchmark on this scale factor on a single node seems to require hardware costing hundreds of thousands of Dollars. And while the retina MacBook Pro was a high-end machine in 2012, by 2014 many other vendors shifted to offering laptops with built-in SSD storage and larger amounts of memory became more widespread.
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