How Arcesium Halved Query Costs with DuckDB
Arcesium cut query costs and runtimes by about half by migrating thousands of Athena and Trino SQL jobs to DuckDB over 18 months. The lightweight OLAP engine handled S3‑backed Parquet data with 50% faster execution and 50% lower resource usage, unlocking scale for client onboarding. Their experience highlights practical steps and pitfalls for similar migrations.