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manifold
Manifold is a Java compiler plugin, its features include Metaprogramming, Properties, Extension Methods, Operator Overloading, Templates, a Preprocessor, and more.
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react-admin
A frontend Framework for single-page applications on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using TypeScript, React and Material Design
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octosql
OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL.
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tidy-viewer
📺(tv) Tidy Viewer is a cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment.
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TimescaleDB
A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better DuckDB alternative or higher similarity.
DuckDB discussion
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-27.
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Readsb ADS-B Aircraft Local State Archive
wget https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/releases/latest/download/duckdb_cli-linux-arm64.zip unzip duckdb_cli-linux-arm64.zip sudo mv duckdb /usr/local/bin/
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Producer audit clean, six tests red
DuckDB ships a shell extension that registers _ as a replacement scan. FROM _ resolves to the result of the previously executed query, surfaced as a one-shot table reference. The reporter on #22852 showed that SELECT d.x FROM _ AS d failed with Referenced table d1 not found. The user-supplied alias d never reached the binder's scope-resolution layer; the previous-result table came out under an internal name.
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Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin for fuzzy shell history (ctrl+r)
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (nice coloured cat replacement)
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima (so I don't need docker desktop)
https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb (performant database that lets you directly query JSON, parquet, csv files with SQL queries and convert one to the other.
https://github.com/eradman/entr (rerun commands automatically when provided files change) (useful for rerunning test commands automatically once you save the file you're editing.
https://github.com/martinvonz/jj and https://github.com/idursun/jjui (Jujutsu VCS, been using it for three months and I really enjoy it)
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker (managing containers, images, volumes easily)
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit (best tui for git and outside niche git commands, the fastest way to use git.)
https://github.com/jdx/mise (fast asdf, direnv, and task runner replacement) (install pretty much version of tool, language, env vars in a per directory level. (Or global if you want))
https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide (intelligent cd to move between directories incredibly quickly)
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DuckDB VS sail - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 18 Mar 2026
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DuckDB 1.5.0
Still no support for range types though, which is a pity as that continues to block me from porting most of my Postgres workloads.
date_ranges are so great, you'll wonder how you ever did without them.
1: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/rangetypes.html
2: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/discussions/6077
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Ask HN: Who's Using DuckDB in Production?
Inspired by the post that's on the front page as I write this [1] I'm interested to hear about who's using DuckDB in production and how.
We have a tool live that uses it and I'm quite happy so I'm both looking for interesting use cases from others but also full disclosure I'm reasonably sure I've just identified today that DuckDB is leaking memory quite seriously [2] so I'm curious to hear if other people have noticed this or if it's maybe something that's not as relevant to others since people might be running DuckDB pipelines in ephemeral envs like lambdas etc. where a memory leak might not matter as much.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645176
[2] https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/20569
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Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing
As far as I can tell pretty conclusive results:
https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/20569
If someone can explain this or has a fix for it I'd love to hear it!
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Save on DuckDB + S3 Transfer Costs
"DuckDB always uses range requests, firstly to query the metadata only, then to fetch the required columns." — PR #5405: HTTP parquet optimizations
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DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware
Just for context. DuckDB team is consistently ignores any security practices.
The single one method how to install DuckDB on laptop is to run
`curl https://install.duckdb.org | sh`
I've requested to deliver CLI as standard package, they have ignored it. Here is the thread https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/17091
As you can see that it isn't single slip due to "human factor", but DuckDB management consistently puts users at risk.
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A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 13 Jun 2026
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