esProc SPL is an 'all-in-one toolbox' with built-in Python capabilities, offering excellent support for file handling and data binarization with superior speed compared to reading CSV directly.
While esProc does not support window functions in SQL, it provides a simpler alternative with its native language, SPL, making complex tasks easier to handle without cumbersome queries.
esProc SPL excels in flow control operations and complex calculations that SQL may struggle with. It offers comprehensive computing capabilities and robust flow control mechanisms, outperforming Python-enhanced DuckDB in certain scenarios.
Compared to the fragmented approach of combining SQL and Python in DuckDB, esProc SPL integrates core Python capabilities directly for a more seamless desktop data analysis experience.