DeepSeek's smallpond and 3FS: Scaling DuckDB to Petabytes
2025-03-02
DeepSeek AI has released smallpond and 3FS, designed to extend the DuckDB database to handle petabyte-scale datasets. smallpond is a lightweight distributed data processing framework enabling DuckDB to process data in parallel across multiple nodes, while 3FS is a high-performance parallel file system leveraging SSDs and RDMA networking for extreme throughput. However, deploying and using these tools is complex, requiring specialized hardware and DevOps expertise. For datasets under 10TB, a single-node DuckDB instance or simpler solutions are more efficient. Only when dealing with massive datasets do smallpond and 3FS show their advantages.
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