How we accidentally created a DuckDB
SQE started as a distributed Iceberg query engine. Five MRs later it queries CSVs from disk, Parquet from S3, and Parquet from HuggingFace. We did not plan that.
ReadOne Binary, No Cluster: SQE Goes Embedded
We built SQE for distributed Iceberg, but most of the time you just want to look at a parquet file. Here's how we made the engine work both ways without forking the codebase.
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