As some of you may know, I’m a big fan of the DuckDB Python library, and I’ve written many articles on it. I was also one of the first to write an article about an even newer Python library called Fireducks and helped bring that to people’s attention.
If you’ve never heard of these useful libraries, check out the links below for an introduction to them.
Both libraries are increasing their share of data science workloads where it could be argued that data manipulation and general wrangling are at least as important as the data analysis and insight that the machine learning side of things brings.
The core foundations of both tools are very different; DuckDB is a modern, embedded analytics database designed for efficient processing and…