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What can Postgres learn from DuckDB?

Date: 2025-05-15
Time: 14:00–14:25
Room: Breakout Room 1
Level: Intermediate

DuckDB an open source SQL analytics engine that is quickly growing in popularity. There are three main reasons for this:

  1. It is very fast at analytics workloads
  2. It is extremely extensible
  3. It has made some nice improvements to its SQL syntax

This begs the question: What can Postgres learn from DuckDB? In this talk I'll discuss how Postgres could learn from some of the things that DuckDB did differently.

Speaker

Jelte Fennema-Nio