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> but it's irritating to perform a full row-to-column conversion through an inefficient, non-batched API in order to get the data through JDBC and into TMD

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> In the last two years, DuckDB improved a lot. Importantly, the C interface now provides a batched system for both inserts and querying, which enables processing very large joins

That's why. Basically JDBC doesn't offer the batched APIs needed to get the same performance.

parent didibus 3 months ago

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