-History is full of “what if”s, what if something like DuckDB had existed in 2012? The main ingredients where there, vectorized query processing had [already been invented in 2005](https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2005/papers/P19.pdf). Would the now somewhat-silly-looking move to distributed systems for data analysis have ever happened? The dataset size of our benchmark database was awfully close to that 99.9% percentile of input data volume for analytical queries in 2024. And while the retina MacBook Pro was a high-end machine in 2012, by 2014 many other vendors shifted to offering laptops with built-in SSD storage and larger amounts of memory became more widespread.
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