It’s 2025. Let’s separate storage from processing. SQLite showed how elegant embedded databases can be, but the real win is formats like Parquet: boring, durable storage you can read with any engine. Storage stays simple, compute stays swappable. That’s the future.
Counterpoint: "The two versions of Parquet" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44970769 (17 days ago, 50 comments)
As I understood by reading the short description, Parquet is a column-oriented format which is made for selecting data and which is difficult to use for updating (like Yandex Clickhouse).