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AI slop. The content might be valuable but the framing makes it too painful to read. Please, folks, write with your own voice -- especially if it's for your business blog . It's good for you as an author (practice makes perfect) and it's good for your readers (whom you want to influence).
Agreed. It felt like I was reading a chat with Claude Code.
How are these two DB engines even comparable other than at the edges? They handle two completely separate workload types: one is more a general-purpose DB engine and the other is specifically for columnar datasets, analytics and the like -- of course a hand-tuned DB engine is going to destroy SQLite on any reasonable benchmark: SQLite wouldn't be optimized for that hand-tuned use-case whereas something like DuckDB is…
And DuckDB is reasonably fast for even single record writes. ~1000x slower than SQLite, but that's still pretty fast if you're only doing a few hundred writes per second or batching.
I ran this through an AI checker and it flagged half of it immediately. @dang, I know Substack just enabled Pangram integration, is there anyway you could get Y Combinator to spring for a Pangram subscription for the front page or something ?
AI comments aren't allowed on HN. AI submissions are.
> DuckDB's columnar engine That is workload specific. Title should be "Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite for Analytics" IMHO
Despite its obvious advantages, the biggest drawback of DuckDB is its concurrency model [1]. If a process opens a database in read-write mode, it acquires an exclusive lock on the file. This prevents even simple read operations from other processes as long as the writer remains open. Maybe there's a simple workaround I haven't come across, but I found it to be quite a productivity killer. So yes, all these benchmarks…
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Yes - it's a specific workload for sure. SQLite is still the GOAT when it comes to OLTP, but DuckDB is really becoming the GOAT in the OLAP world - I think DuckDB is simply amazing and truly an amazing piece of technology for anyone working with large amounts of data.
> SQLite is still the GOAT when it comes to OLTP, but DuckDB is really becoming the GOAT in the OLAP world Can you explain this more, especially why SQLite is best at OLTP and what happens at scale?
That server is now $51.09 for those wondering See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540844