https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1805.08520/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290682urn:hackerpapers:mention:1805.08520:23290682Sun, 24 May 2020 10:56:12 GMT<p>Hannes and me developed both MonetDBLite and DuckDB, precisely for the need that you described :) We noticed that there was no easy RDBMS aimed at single-machine analytical workloads, whereas these kind of workloads are very common (e.g. R/Python data science workloads). MonetDBLite was our initial approach, and is essentially an embedded version of MonetDB. We wrote a paper about it (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.08520.pdf). While it works, the system was not built with embeddability in mind, and we had to rewrite a lot of code to get it to work. Because of that we ended up with a fork, as the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1805.08520/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DB