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pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA


Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension: You can have your analytics and transact them too with pg_duckdb by DuckDB Labs, MotherDuck, Hydra, Neon and Microsoft.

Postgres is generating a lot of excitement, having been named 2023 DBMS of the Year by DB-Engines and recognized as the most popular database in the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey twice in a row. For example, you might want to know how revenue is growing in the Netherlands, or how many of your customers have names that rhyme with “Duck.” These are analytical queries and often require separate ways of storing and processing the data to operate efficiently. but they haven’t been particularly successful because being good at analytics requires different techniques for running your queries, like being able to operate over batches of rows at once, and avoiding decompressing data until it is absolutely needed.

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