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arctic

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Install arctic, understand the two acquisition paths, and pull your first community out of the archive into queryable Parquet.

Three short pages: what arctic acquires and how it thinks about the bulk Reddit archive, how to install the binary, and a guided first run that ends with a real community imported, queried, and summarized on your terminal.

Introduction The two paths into the archive, the Parquet conversion with a fixed schema, the local index, and the hardware budget arctic sizes its work against. Installation Install arctic from a release, with go install, from a package manager, as a container, or from source with the optional DuckDB engine. Quick start From an empty data directory to a real community imported, queried, and summarized, in a handful of commands.