Taking Flight with Interactive Analytics
summary
Argues that most analytics use tiny working sets—99% of queries under 10 GB, 90% under 100 MB—and shows a browser demo that runs DuckDB in WASM for local, sub-second interactive SQL visualizations powered by Mosaic. Describes MotherDuck as a cloud personal DuckDB instance that coordinates joint query planning, ships only selected partitions, supports zero-copy clones and time travel, vertically scales a single-host engine, and demonstrates the hybrid local+cloud pipeline delivering near-instant sliding-window filtering and live charts.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Evolution of big data
- 3:11Shift in infrastructure
- 5:18Introducing DuckDB
- 6:41MotherDuck cloud integration
- 8:43Data application architecture
- 12:04Interactive demo
- 14:12Conclusion
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