Nice article!

While it's true that 2.0 makes recursive CTEs much more performant, don't forget that there's a badass DuckDB extension for graph data already. Here's a 2025 article about how elegantly that can handle what is otherwise quite a challenging class of query for your typical RDBMS: https://duckdb.org/2025/10/22/duckdb-graph-queries-duckpgq