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Comment by mcv

Is everything becoming columnar? Parquet stores data per column instead of per row because it improves compression. I get that. Arrow apparently is columnar, and now DuckDB also gets its efficiency by treating data as columns instead of rows?

I still need to wrap my head around how that works, but it's a fascinating development.

parent mcv 4 months ago

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