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postgres_scanner
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Connect ODBC Databases to DuckDB
I've created an ODBC DuckDB extension to query any database that has an ODBC driver. It's modeled after the fantastic official Postgres scanner extension https://github.com/duckdblabs/postgres_scanner.
It supports fetching rowsets in batches to minimize network overhead and defaults to the default DuckDB vector size of 2048.
I've tested it against the IBM DB2 & Postgres ODBC drivers and will continue to test and add support for all major databases. If you've got one you'd like to see let me know in the comments.
I've got plenty of improvements in the pipeline including:
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DuckDB 0.7.0
It's not a dumb question at all. I'm pretty knowledgeable with DBs and still find it very difficult to understand how many of these front-end/pass-through engines work.
Checkout Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers. That might be the most well known approach for accessing one database through another. The Supabase team wrote an interesting piece about this recently.
https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-foreign-data-wrappers-rus...
You might also want to try out duckdb's approach to reading other DBs (or DB files). They talk about how they can "import" a sqlite DB in the above 0.7.0 announcement, but also have some other examples in their duckdblabs github project. Check out their "...-scanner" repos:
https://github.com/duckdblabs/postgres_scanner
https://github.com/duckdblabs/sqlite_scanner
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DuckDB – in-process SQL OLAP database management system
Doesn't postgres have a columnar option? If so, you could prob get better performance for your analytical interactions if you switched some tables to columnar.
Otherwise check out postgres scanner. https://github.com/duckdblabs/postgres_scanner
- DuckDB on YugabyteDB
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Notes on the SQLite DuckDB Paper
DuckDB can actually read SQLite or Postgres directly! In the SQLite case, something like Litestream plus DuckDB could work really well!
Also, with Pyarrow's help, DuckDB can already do this with Delta tables!
https://github.com/duckdblabs/sqlite_scanner
https://github.com/duckdblabs/postgresscanner
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Friendlier SQL with DuckDB
Interesting thought! I have not tried this yet so I only have a guess as an answer. Could you export the data as SQL statements and then run those statements on DuckDB? That may be easier to set up, but may take longer to run...
DuckDB also has the ability to read Postgres data directly, and there is a Postgres FDW that can read from DuckDB!
https://github.com/duckdblabs/postgresscanner
https://github.com/alitrack/duckdb_fdw
db-benchmark
- Database-Like Ops Benchmark
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Polars
Real-world performance is complicated since data science covers a lot of use cases.
If you're just reading a small CSV to do analysis on it, then there will be no human-perceptible difference between Polars and Pandas. If you're reading a larger CSV with 100k rows, there still won't be much of a perceptible difference.
Per this (old) benchmark, there are differences once you get into 500MB+ territory: https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/
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DuckDB performance improvements with the latest release
I do think it was important for duckdb to put out a new version of the results as the earlier version of that benchmark [1] went dormant with a very old version of duckdb with very bad performance, especially against polars.
[1] https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/
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Show HN: SimSIMD vs. SciPy: How AVX-512 and SVE make SIMD cleaner and ML faster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33270638 :
> Apache Ballista and Polars do Apache Arrow and SIMD.
> The Polars homepage links to the "Database-like ops benchmark" of {Polars, data.table, DataFrames.jl, ClickHouse, cuDF, spark, (py)datatable, dplyr, pandas, dask, Arrow, DuckDB, Modin,} but not yet PostgresML? https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/ *
LLM -> Vector database: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_database
/? inurl:awesome site:github.com "vector database"
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Pandas vs. Julia – cheat sheet and comparison
I agree with your conclusion but want to add that switching from Julia may not make sense either.
According to these benchmarks: https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/, DF.jl is the fastest library for some things, data.table for others, polars for others. Which is fastest depends on the query and whether it takes advantage of the features/properties of each.
For what it's worth, data.table is my favourite to use and I believe it has the nicest ergonomics of the three I spoke about.
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Any faster Python alternatives?
Same. Numba does wonders for me in most scenarios. Yesterday I've discovered pola-rs and looks like I will add it to the stack. It's API is similar to pandas. Have a look at the benchmarks of cuDF, spark, dask, pandas compared to it: Benchmarks
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Pandas 2.0 (with pyarrow) vs Pandas 1.3 - Performance comparison
The syntax has similarities with dplyr in terms of the way you chain operations, and it’s around an order of magnitude faster than pandas and dplyr (there’s a nice benchmark here). It’s also more memory-efficient and can handle larger-than-memory datasets via streaming if needed.
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Pandas v2.0 Released
If interested in benchmarks comparing different dataframe implementations, here is one:
https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/
- Database-like ops benchmark
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Python "programmers" when I show them how much faster their naive code runs when translated to C++ (this is a joke, I love python)
Bad examples. Both numpy and pandas are notoriously un-optimized packages, losing handily to pretty much all their competitors (R, Julia, kdb+, vaex, polars). See https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/ for a partial comparison.
What are some alternatives?
odbc-scanner-duckdb-extension - A DuckDB extension to read data directly from databases supporting the ODBC interface
polars - Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust
ClickBench - ClickBench: a Benchmark For Analytical Databases
datafusion - Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
sqlite_scanner - DuckDB extension to read and write to SQLite databases
Apache Arrow - Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing
budibase - Budibase is an open-source low code platform that helps you build internal tools in minutes 🚀
databend - 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 & 𝗔𝗜. Modern alternative to Snowflake. Cost-effective and simple for massive-scale analytics. https://databend.com
go-duckdb - go-duckdb provides a database/sql driver for the DuckDB database engine.
sktime - A unified framework for machine learning with time series
duckdb - DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP Database Management System
DataFramesMeta.jl - Metaprogramming tools for DataFrames