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You generally wouldn't "switch" from one to the other, they'd be used in concert for different purposes

MySQL/SQLite/PostGres fall under the "transactional" database category and others like DuckDB, Redshift, or Clickhouse are considered "analytical" ones and are meant for aggregating large volumes of data

It's a pretty deep topic so searching for something like "OLTP vs OLAP databases" will give you a lot of reading material



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