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Inside QuestDB's Query Engine: Tracing Three Queries
QuestDB's time-series query engine appears tuple-at-a-time externally, but internally mixes vectorized execution, SIMD C++ kernels, Java batch processing, JIT filtering, and frame-based parallelism. Small SQL changes can shift execution paths, affecting group-by, filtering, and aggregation performance.
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