Spill
Spilling is not an error; it is the engine refusing to crash. It also turns the fast part of a query into the slow part, which is why it shows up in metrics.
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Single-Node Analytics: DuckDB, Polars, and Arrow
Compare DuckDB, Polars, and Arrow with Parquet queries, null-safe joins, and interchange checks. Separate result correctness from memory and speed claims.