alt Hacker NewsMy honeymoon with duckdb wore off pretty quickly when I need to compile it, myself, into a single-file concordance. I understand it's open source, so I'm free to be ignored. But, it's positioning itself as a drop-in replacement for SQLite; a large part of SQLite's appeal is its ergonomics — its single-fileness — letting me deliver a rational object to my users.
EDIT: "drop-in replacement like SQLite", not "for SQLite".
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> it's positioning itself as a drop-in replacement for SQLite
While SQLite is often used for comparison (“SQLite for OLAP”), I’ve never seen DuckDB market itself as a “drop-in” replacement. Where did you see that?
Sqllite and duckdb serve pretty different niches; duckdb is less embeddable but on the OLAP side it’s by far the best today. I wouldn’t ever see them as competing for the same app, though
I’ve had some fun experiments with duckdb that involve compiling extensions and the like. Ecosystem is still surprisingly quite young and I end up discovering bugs not made it into official releases yet but fixed on main. It’s compounded by the annoying fact that few extension authors release continuously and you’re usually only seeing a new version drop once every few months.
It’s not THAT hard to do if you’re not afraid of compiling in the C/C++ ecosystem. But people should be aware that a lot of stuff is still really nascent and in active development in the extension ecosystem. I wish more extension authors made at least nightly builds available, that would save a ton of pain and drive a lot more adoption IMO