PostGIS is great when your data is already in a Postgres table! SedonaDB and DuckDB are much faster when your data starts elsewhere (e.g., GeoParquet files).

The "DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade" post has a nice related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881468

Oh I see. So if you have some kind of a pipeline in which you don’t need or want to load the data into a DB first. That makes total sense, thanks!