#562: DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet

Talk Python To Me - Python conversations for passionate developers by Michael Kennedy

Sep 10, 202671:09Technology

How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which Parquet files matter. DuckLake asks one SQL question instead. The metada...

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