--- title: Polars 2.0 vs DuckDB 2.0 | daily.dev description: DuckDB 2.0 is moving toward a more client/server architecture. Polars 2.0/2.1 is fixing core issues and moving toward default streaming and spill-to-disk... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/polars-2-0-vs-duckdb-2-0-tqkatjwjj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Polars 2.0 vs DuckDB 2.0 | daily.dev og:description: DuckDB 2.0 is moving toward a more client/server architecture. Polars 2.0/2.1 is fixing core issues and moving toward default streaming and spill-to-disk... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/polars-2-0-vs-duckdb-2-0-tqkatjwjj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tQKaTjWjj.png og:image:alt: Polars 2.0 vs DuckDB 2.0 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Polars 2.0 vs DuckDB 2.0 **[Confessions of a Data Guy](https://daily.dev/sources/confessionsofadataguy)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DuckDB 2.0 is moving toward a more client/server architecture. Polars 2.0/2.1 is fixing core issues and moving toward default streaming and spill-to-disk behavior. The post frames these as the direction each project is heading. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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