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I built something on top of DuckDB last year but it never got deployed. They wanted to trust Postgres.

I didn't use the in browser WASM but I did expose an api endpoint that passed data exploration queries directly to the backend like a knock off of what new relic does. I also use that same endpoint for all the graphs and metrics in the UI. Just filtered out the write / delete statements in a rudimentary way.

DuckDB is phenomenal tech and I love to use it with data ponds instead of data lakes although it is very capable of large sets as well.

And "data pond"? Glad I am not alone using this term! Somewhere between a data lake and warehouse - still unstructured but not _everything_ in one place. For instance, if I have a multi-tenant app I might choose to have a duckdb setup for each customer with pre-filtered data living alongside some global unstructured data.

Maybe there's already a term that covers this but I like the imagery of the metaphor... "smaller, multiple data but same idea as the big one".



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