How has your experience been with DuckDB in production? It is a relatively new project. How is it’s reliability?
Granted DuckDB's is in constant development, but it doesn't yet have native cross-version export/import feature (since its developers claim DuckDB hasn't reached maturity to stabilise its on-disk format just yet).
I also keep an eye on https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/ As for Arrow-backed query engines, Pola.rs and DataFusion in particular sound the most exciting to me.
It also remains to be seen how DataBrick's delta.io develops (might come in handy for much much larger data-warehouses).