https://blog.hyperparam.app/2025/07/24/quest-for-instant-data/
Hyparquet: The Quest for Instant Data
Jul 24, 2025
“Modern data viewer tools take anywhere from 5 sec (DuckDB) to 57 sec (Pandas) to load just 10 rows of data…. The rest of this blog describes my multi-month journey to hyper-optimize time-to-first-data for parquet files.”