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Soo… usearch? Its literally one header file (of what use to be strict c++11). Funnily enough that is what is used in the official duckdb-vss extension. Disclaimer: I wrote duckdb-v…

This is cool. My only worry is that the implementation complexity will prevent widespread adoption outside of maplibre. Although getting write support upstreamed into PostGIS might…

Actually, they do https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/announc...

I think this is just cause it hasn't been implemented in spatial yet. DuckDB is currently going through a pretty big refactor of the way we glob/scan/union multiple files with all …

Im inclined to agree, but unfortunately a huge amount of the existing data and processes in this space does not assume a spheroidal earth and come provided with a coordinate refere…

I replied to another comment, but I think a big part is that duckdbs spatial extension provides a SQL interface to a whole suite of standard foss gis packages by statically bundlin…

I think a big part is that duckdbs spatial extension doesnt have any transitive dependencies (except libc). It statically packages the standard suite of foss gis tools (including a…

I still need to update the docs and there's probably going to be a blog post on it in the future, but for now there are some more details in the PR https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb…

Thanks! I've been wanting to add this since I first started out working on DuckDB almost two years ago but I finally managed to accumulate the time (and the skills required!) to fi…

We’re currently 16~ software engineers at DuckDB Labs! I think its a good size to be productive but also stay nimble.

It does push down filters! Not sure if other nodes are pushed down, I think for now the database boundary is at the scan node, but you could add additional optimizer/rewrite rules …

Kdb(been around since the 90s) https://code.kx.com/q/ref/aj/

Yes! I'm working hard on it, I've been distracted with other work for some of our clients but hopefully have something to show soon.