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Data Inlining in DuckLake: Unlocking Streaming for Data Lakes
Data Inlining is a technique that stores small updates (inserts, deletes, or updates below a configurable threshold) directly in its catalog database instead of writing them as tiny Parquet files to object storage. This elegantly solves the classic "small files problem" in data lakes, enabling efficient, low-latency streaming workloads (like sensor data) without constant compaction jobs.
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