Duckle was benchmarked against 4 open source Data Ingestion(ELT/ETL) tools.

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Souravroy

Jul 30, 2026

DuckDB Power ๐Ÿ’ช like no other!
We benchmarked Duckle against 4 open source ingestion tools.
Then we published the harness so you can prove us wrong.

96 million rows of TPC-H lineitem, 14 GB in Postgres, out to Parquet, one laptop.

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Bechmark Results (Duckle Winner)

The harness ships in the repo. โ€œ./bench.shโ€ all brings up Postgres, generates the data at any scale factor, and times every tool you have installed. No run gets a time until its output has been reopened and checked for the right row count and the right sum(l_orderkey), so a tool that writes a fast wrong file gets a failure instead of a number.

Run it. If you get different numbers, we want to see them.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Repo -https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle

๐Ÿ‘‰ Benchmark -https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/tree/main/benchmarks