---
title: "My First Billion (of Rows) in DuckDB"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-first-billion-of-rows-in-duckdb-xdmay1odh
source_url: https://towardsdatascience.com/my-first-billion-of-rows-in-duckdb-11873e5edbb5
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2024-05-02T13:32:34.876Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z
tags: ["performance", "sql", "big-data", "data-processing", "duckdb"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 20
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# My First Billion (of Rows) in DuckDB

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 10 min read · 20 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

The post describes the author's experience with DuckDB, a database for processing large volumes of data locally. It covers the problem of processing logs of Brazilian electronic ballot boxes and the challenges involved. The post explains the features and advantages of DuckDB and provides a step-by-step implementation of data processing. It concludes with the author's evaluation of DuckDB's performance and usability.

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daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://towardsdatascience.com/my-first-billion-of-rows-in-duckdb-11873e5edbb5>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@christophackerl** · 0 upvotes

> Gotta give this DuckDB a shot in some hobby project. Looks really promising and interesting.

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Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#sql](https://daily.dev/tags/sql), [#big-data](https://daily.dev/tags/big-data), [#data-processing](https://daily.dev/tags/data-processing), [#duckdb](https://daily.dev/tags/duckdb)

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