Hi chrisjc, these are interesting thoughts. I was mainly interested in providing a server interface for DuckDB b/c of the performance I observed when running large OLAP workloads, and especially the cost savings vs cloud SaaS offerings. I think the big benefit here is that you can run the same workload at roughly equivalent performance - but for 80% less - from my tests...

I like your ideas, though. The server is written in C++.

I hope this helps...

Thanks!