Duckdb-sqlite Alternatives

duckdb-sqlite reviews and mentions

• Sqlite3 WebAssembly
  20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2024

  You can use DuckDB WASM independently of Pyodide and can extend it with SQLite.

  Though it seems to be somewhat limited. I couldn't even check what version it has, since sqlite_version() was missing. Version in the repository [1] is 3.38.1, which is from quite a ways ago.

  At the moment DuckDB web shell can't load SQLite extension, since that hasn't been released for yesterday's 1.1.2. Earlier version does work using recently updated WASM edition. That can be extended with spatial including GDAL, vector search etc [2]. Making your own "SQL web shell" wasn't too hard, though docs weren't quite complete enough for me.

  [1] https://github.com/duckdb/sqlite_scanner/blob/main/src/sqlit...

• 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 extension to read SQLite databases
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2022
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