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		civilized on Dec 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: R adds native pipe and lambda syntax You need a columnar database for good performance. Try DuckDB to ease them into it, it's a columnar SQLite.

orhmeh09 on Dec 6, 2020 [–]

Thanks, I’m checking it out, it seems pretty interesting to keep an eye on. Lots of properties that would be useful in our shared computing environment like not requiring root or Docker.

hated on Dec 6, 2020 | [–]

Might also be worth running a local instance of Postgres 13. Super easy to do on Windows without administrator rights.

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