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DuckDB goes distributed? DeepSeek’s smallpond takes on Big Data

DeepSeek is pushing DuckDB beyond its single-node roots with smallpond, a new, simple approach to distributed compute. But does it solve the scalability challenge—or introduce new trade-offs?

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