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Benchmarks
Measured comparisons with published methodology.
How to read these
Every study states its hypothesis before its result, links its data and notebook, and ends with what it could not establish. Numbers here are a starting point for your own measurement, not a conclusion to adopt.
Benchmarks
DuckDB vs pandas vs Polars on 50 Million Rows
A reproducible benchmark across six workload shapes, reporting memory as well as time — because memory is what actually stops the job.
BeginnerDifficulty: BeginnerDuckDB · Polars · pandas
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