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I haven't used it yet, but DuckDB looks really cool. I'm looking forwards to what MotherDuck releases with it. Having a great local-first product focused on datasets <100GB would be awesome.

Meta comment: it's fascinating to me that so many people seem to have never heard of OLAP databases.

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It's also fascinating to me that some people seem to believe it's HN's job to define these terms. Seriously, the definition of OLAP is one search away and it is not hard to grasp...

One of those people here (not that I'm proud of it or anything) — I guess a lot of software engineers just don't do data analysis so heavy it requires a different kind of database.

Not in the utterly pedestrian CRUD apps I write, anyway.

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