# The Lost Decade of Small Data

> If DuckDB had launched in 2012, the great migration to distributed analytics might never have happened. Data isn't that big after all.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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> Author: **Hannes Mühleisen** (DuckDB Labs) | Original: [The Lost Decade of Small Data](https://duckdb.org/2025/05/19/the-lost-decade-of-small-data.html)

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