DuckDB 2.0 on a 2 vCPU box: recursive queries 20x faster, VARIANT 80x

MotherDuck's "Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster" was on the Hacker News front page this weekend. It benchmarks the 2.0 alpha against 1.5.5 on an M5 laptop and reports big wins: a recursive engine the DuckDB te