Forget about SQLite, Use DuckDB Instead — And Thank Me Later

Introduction to DuckDB and its Python integration

Pol Marin
Towards Data Science
8 min readMar 16, 2023

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We, programmers, tend to default to SQLite when we want to work on local environments with an embedded database. While that works fine most of the time, it’s like using a bicycle to travel 100 km away: probably not the best option.

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