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What can Postgres learn from DuckDB? (PGConf.dev 2025)

2025/06/13

Presented by Jelte Fennema-Nio at PGConf.dev 2025 (https://2025.pgconf.dev)

DuckDB an open source SQL analytics engine that is quickly growing in popularity. There are three main reasons for this:

It is very fast at analytics workloads It is extremely extensible It has made some nice improvements to its SQL syntax This begs the question: What can Postgres learn from DuckDB? In this talk I'll discuss how Postgres could learn from some of the things that DuckDB did differently.

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