SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB

8•souravroy78•10h ago

SlothDB is an OLAP embedded database that is 1.35X to 5X Faster than DuckDB and Clickhouse DB. This is based on Clickbench hits.parquet 14 GB 100M Rows comparision. Hit the star button or submit a PR if you would like to contribute.

https://github.com/SouravRoy-ETL/slothdb

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just_mc•5h ago

Its interesting, especially the size for edge applications. That being said, for something thats been worked on for two weeks by one person, you are going to have to bring a LOT of data and architectural explanation to convince folks this is better than DuckDB in any way. For example, where are the TPC and LDBC benchmarks?

souravroy78•2h ago

I am working on Publishing Results soon in a day or two stay tuned and thanks for the kind words

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