DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database

Summary: Embeddable analytical database for in-process analytics, enabling SQL execution inside an application with minimal intrusion. Demonstrates embedded analytics performance against other data-management solutions, highlighting permissive open-source license. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h74b6eec752c7deba
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 0.00037720227
Overall Rank: 71 | 99.53%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3320212

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Mark Raasveldt (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Hannes Mühleisen (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{raasveldt_sigmod19,
        title = {{DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database}},
        author = {Raasveldt, Mark and Mühleisen, Hannes},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3320212},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3320212},
        year = {2019}
}

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Showing 11 of 161 citing papers.

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11,542	High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing Performance	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,547	Understanding and Reusing Test Suites Across Database Systems	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,557	Sorting on Byte-Addressable Storage: The Resurgence of Tree Structure	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,570	SplitDF: Splitting Dataframes for Memory-Efficient Data Analysis	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,619	A Reproducible Tutorial on Reproducibility in Database Systems Research	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,672	mutable: A Modern DBMS for Research and Fast Prototyping	2023	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
11,727	SH2O: Efficient Data Access for Work-Sharing Databases	2023	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,735	Lightweight Materialization for Fast Dashboards Over Joins	2023	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,858	Demonstration of VegaPlus: Optimizing Declarative Visualization Languages	2022	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,860	Lineage Resource Manager	2022	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,932	Accelerating Complex Analytics using Speculation	2021	CIDR	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00064031282
21	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00056855599
228	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023920439
884	Dynamic Programming Strikes Back	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013267935
906	Data Blocks: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP on Compressed Storage using both Vectorization and Compilation	2016	SIGMOD	0.00013160654
1,186	Adaptive Optimization of Very Large Join Queries	2018	SIGMOD	0.0001160797
4,112	Don’t Hold My Data Hostage – A Case For Client Protocol Redesign	2017	VLDB	6.7994301e-05
7,107	MonetDBLite: An Embedded Analytical Database	2018	SIGMOD	5.601767e-05

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