Python and SQL: Better Together, Powered by DuckDB

Explore the powerful combination of Python and SQL through DuckDB in this 39-minute PyCon US talk. Discover how DuckDB, a novel database management system, bridges the gap between traditional data management systems and Python-based data wrangling tools. Learn about DuckDB's seamless integration with the Python ecosystem, its ability to read and write popular dataframe libraries, and its support for various file formats and cloud object storage. Understand how DuckDB offers a user-friendly SQL dialect, Pythonic dataframe syntax options, and compatibility with other database systems. Gain insights into DuckDB's performance advantages, ease of installation, and ability to handle larger-than-RAM datasets. Compare DuckDB with Python dataframe libraries and explore practical examples of combining DuckDB and dataframes for efficient data processing.

Talks - Alex Monahan, Gabor Szarnyas: Python and SQL: Better Together, Powered by DuckDB