sqlite_scanner VS duckdb

Compare sqlite_scanner vs duckdb and see what are their differences.

sqlite_scanner

DuckDB extension to read and write to SQLite databases (by duckdb)

duckdb

DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP Database Management System (by duckdb)
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sqlite_scanner duckdb
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184 15,710
3.3% 10.4%
8.3 10.0
about 1 month ago 4 days ago
C C++
MIT License MIT License
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sqlite_scanner

Posts with mentions or reviews of sqlite_scanner. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.
  • DuckDB 0.7.0
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023
    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

  • Notes on the SQLite DuckDB Paper
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2022
    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

  • Friendlier SQL with DuckDB
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2022
    Excellent question! I'll jump in - I am a part of the DuckDB team though, so if other users have thoughts it would be great to get other perspectives as well.

    First things first - we really like quite a lot about the SQLite approach. DuckDB is similarly easy to install and is built without dependencies, just like SQLite. It also runs in the same process as your application just like SQLite does. SQLite is excellent as a transactional database - lots of very specific inserts, updates, and deletes (called OLTP workloads). DuckDB can also read directly out of SQLite files as well, so you can mix and match them! (https://github.com/duckdblabs/sqlitescanner)

    DuckDB is much faster than SQLite when doing analytical queries (OLAP) like when calculating summaries or trends over time, or joining large tables together. It can use all of your CPU cores for sometimes ~100x speedup over SQLite.

    DuckDB also has some enhancements with respect to data transfer in and out of it. It can natively read Pandas, R, and Julia dataframes, and can read parquet files directly also (meaning without inserting first!).

    Does that help? Happy to add more details!

duckdb

Posts with mentions or reviews of duckdb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sqlite_scanner and duckdb you can also consider the following projects:

ClickHouse - ClickHouse® is a free analytics DBMS for big data

sqlite-worker - A simple, and persistent, SQLite database for Web and Workers.

datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

octosql - OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL.

metabase-clickhouse-driver - ClickHouse database driver for the Metabase business intelligence front-end

arrow-datafusion - Apache Arrow DataFusion SQL Query Engine

LevelDB - LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.

duckdb-rs - Ergonomic bindings to duckdb for Rust

toydb - Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as a learning project

TimescaleDB - An open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Packaged as a PostgreSQL extension.

hydra - Hydra: Column-oriented Postgres. Add scalable analytics to your project in minutes.

Rx.NET - The Reactive Extensions for .NET