This book covers DuckDB—a modern, fast, embedded analytical database. It runs on your machine and can easily process many gigabytes of data from a variety of sources, including JSON, CSV, Parquet, SQLite, and Postgres. DuckDB integrates well into the Python and R ecosystems and allows you to query in-memory data frames without copying the data. You don’t need to spin up cloud data warehouses for your day-to-day data processing anymore; you can just run DuckDB on your data, locally or in the cloud.
