Reading 3 columns instead of 12
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
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The arithmetic behind a cheap query
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
The build takes under two seconds
Full rebuild: generate fourteen datasets from scratch, render every page, write the feeds, verify every internal link. Under two seconds on a laptop.
Reading 3 columns instead of 8
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
The arithmetic behind a cheap query
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
The arithmetic behind a cheap query
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
The arithmetic behind a cheap query
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
Reading 3 columns instead of 10
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
Reading 3 columns instead of 11
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
The arithmetic behind a cheap query
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
The arithmetic behind a cheap query
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
Reading 3 columns instead of 7
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
The arithmetic behind a cheap query
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
Fifteen minutes a month on the warehouse bill
A recurring review that has never once found nothing.
Reading 3 columns instead of 10
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
Reading 3 columns instead of 10
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
Reading 3 columns instead of 8
Column pruning times partition pruning on a real schema, and the function call that quietly defeats both.
A backfill that cost $400 in ninety seconds
Four hundred days, unbounded concurrency, and a very short conversation with the platform team.
DuckDB replaced a Spark cluster for one of our jobs
40 minutes to 90 seconds, and a lesson about what "big data" actually means.
We saved $2,100 a month by typing more
A columnar storage lesson learned from a bill, not a book.