Yes
With this I only need to know SQL, optionally duckdb -ui, roughly how to ingest the sources correctly so they can be joined easily (in this case just make sure everything is a UTC time series), and I'm mostly off to the races
steve_adams_86 on Hacker News
In the thread “Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol”, replying to this comment
Helped: Low setup overhead and simple SQL interface for joining disparate data sources.
… Doing that in other tools is perfectly possible and fine, but the overhead of setting up a docker container or understanding requirements for setup or needing an account or whatever bespoke query language makes me lose interest immediately. With this I only need to know SQL, optionally duckdb -ui, roughly how to ingest the sources correctly so they can be joined easily (in this case just make sure everything is a UTC time series), and I'm mostly off to the races. It works fine. …