The DuckDB format supports Async I/O.
Disclaimer: I'm the DuckDB developer who implemented Async I/O for parquet, csvs and the DuckDB Format.
Disclaimer: I'm the DuckDB developer who implemented Async I/O for parquet, csvs and the DuckDB Format.
The release announcement links to several pages from a few months ago, like:
https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io
which according to you are no longer true.
EDIT:
Today I see in the release announcement "DuckDB 2.0 introduces asynchronous I/O for reading Parquet and CSV files, as well as DuckDB's native storage format. "
So it seems that the announcement has been updated, because I am pretty sure that yesterday the ending of this sentence did not exist.