Published on 2025-05-19 Reading time: 9 minutes TL;DR: We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics? Much has been said, not in the very least by ourselves, about how data is actually not that “Big” and how the speed of hardware innovation is outpacing the growth of useful datasets. We may have gone so far to predict a data singularity in the near future, where 99% of useful datasets can be comfortably queried on a...