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6/28/2026

The original title is: "Ad-Hoc Video Analytics with DuckDB on Parquet Exports from Production SQLite"
Original: Ad-Hoc Video Analytics with DuckDB on Parquet Exports from Production SQLite
Short summary
A developer demonstrates separating operational and analytical workloads by exporting production SQLite snapshots to Parquet and querying them locally with DuckDB. A nightly PHP script reduced analytical queries from 20+ minutes to 4 seconds while avoiding production database load. This pattern enables fast exploratory analytics on minimal infrastructure.
- •Export production SQLite data to hive-partitioned Parquet files nightly via DuckDB CLI
- •Query Parquet locally with DuckDB for sub-second analytical results
- •Separates analytical and operational workloads without infrastructure scaling
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