SWITCHING GROUPBY In this article, we introduce the acceleration techniques of “groupby” used in FireDucks. The groupby operation is one of the most fundamental and important operations in tabular data analysis. We can use the groupby operation to obtain important statistical properties such as the mean and variance of the data. We can also combine it with other operations to obtain new features. FireDucks optimizes based on data characteristics for fast groupby operations. One such optim...