#database
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- DuckDB In-process analytical SQL database (columnar, vectorised, ACID) — popular for data-science notebooks and embedded analytics; gained a client-server protocol (Quack) in 2026
- DuckDB Quack Protocol DuckDB ships an HTTP-based client/server wire protocol; 60M rows in <5s (3× Arrow Flight, 32× Postgres), beats Postgres on small writes up to 8 threads
- IndexedDB Browser-native key-value store with indexes, transactions, and cursors for client-side data
- PostgreSQL Open-source relational database; process-per-connection model with a shared buffer pool, central to several recent kernel-interaction stories