An Engineer's Guide to DuckDB and Modern OLAP Databases (opens in new tab)

TL;DR Cloud warehouses are built for petabyte-scale enterprise needs, and for teams working with a few terabytes, they are architectural overkill. Your production database is not the answer either. Running analytical queries on Postgres creates I/O bottlenecks that can take down your application. DuckDB runs locally, requires no infrastructure, and handles sub-terabyte data fast, making it a better fit for the majority of analytical workloads. Serverless options like MotherDuck extend DuckDB ...