DuckDB's Creator Tells LDS Why SQL Won
| Article | DuckDB's Creator Tells LDS Why SQL Won |
| Publication | Let's Data Science |
| Interviewee | Hannes Mühleisen (DuckLabs) |
An interview with Hannes Mühleisen, DuckDB's creator, arguing that the industry misdiagnosed SQL's problems a decade ago: the real issues were deployment and protocols, not the language itself. He points to public workload data from Snowflake and Amazon showing that only a small fraction of analytical queries actually need distributed systems, even though the field built for that edge case for twenty years.
