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I'm a bit surprised the DuckDB file size is that large (5x Parquet, and nearly as large as sqlite). I haven't used DuckDB, but I thought it had columnar storage and so would have better compression.

DuckDB developer here, compression is still a work in progress and is being incrementally implemented and added to the system. For now the storage is still mostly uncompressed, but expect this to improve in the coming months.

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