DeepSeek has released smallpond, a distributed compute framework built on DuckDB, capable of processing 110.5TiB of data in 30 minutes. The framework leverages Ray Core for distribution and DeepSeek's 3FS storage system, offering a simpler alternative to traditional distributed systems while maintaining high performance. This development showcases DuckDB's growing adoption in AI workloads and demonstrates various approaches to scaling analytical databases.

https://mehdio.substack.com/p/duckdb-goes-distributed-deepseeks

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