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Hi HN, we’re Luke and Phillip, and we’re building Spice.ai OSS - a lightweight, portable data and AI engine and powered by Apache DataFusion & Ballista for SQL query, hybrid-search…

Like other tech disrupted crafts before this, think furniture making or farming, that's how it goes. From hand-made craft, to mass production factories (last couple of decades) to …

Periodic objectives x customer results then GPT-5 scoring pull requests, etc. against them roughly aligned to that period. I.e. it scores higher if code is used by and produces val…

CedarDB is a super cool project, we're fans! CedarDB focuses on being a high-performance HTAP database whereas Spice's was built from day 1 to enable high-peformance data and searc…

Like most things, all measures fail point in time and on short time horizons, but law of big numbers and trends can be useful. I.e. compare yourself (on almost any measure) to your…

Hi HN, we’re Luke and Phillip, and we’re building Spice.ai OSS - a lightweight, portable data and AI engine and powered by Apache DataFusion & Ballista for SQL query, hybrid-search…

Hi HN, we’re Luke and Philip, founders of Spice AI. Today, we’re announcing Spice.ai OSS 1.0-Stable, a portable, single-node data query and LLM-inference engine built in Rust. We i…

You also have to run it as admin. If you don't, it tries to auto-update every day and when it can't presents a big, obnoxious red banner. [1] https://x.com/WarpSpeedDan/status/1811…

The Model Context server is similar to what we've built at Spice, but we've focused on databases and data systems. Overall, standards are good. Perhaps we can implement MCP as a da…

We chose Apache 2.0 for the Spice OSS runtime. TL;DR: Data-plane Apache 2.0, control-plane BSL. Being such a core component, we want developers to be completely comfortable integra…

Spice AI | SWE & DevRel | FT | ONSITE (Seattle, Seoul), REMOTE (Australia) Spice AI is the creator of the Spice.ai open-source project, a query-engine and ML inferencing runtime bu…

Also anecdotal, but we (Spice AI) see more requests for Iceberg, but in practice more deployments of Delta Lake.

Thanks! Feedback and GitHub issues welcome!

Yes, it's on the backlog and we'll prioritize as we see demand as with https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/issues/999 .

You're right, and that might be a good choice if you wanted to deploy and operate an additional PostgreSQL server locally. ## Using DuckDB: app -> duckdb -> network -> remote postg…

Thank you! Much appreciated.

DuckDB is awesome. As an OLAP columnar-store database it excels at certain operations, like aggregations. If your use-case is row-based lookups where an OLTP database would perform…

Spice supports what DataFusion supports, which is generally yes but there is still work to do to push down more queries to TableProviders. For example, joins within a single source…

Thank you! Yes, in terms of federated queries, there are similarities, but Spice is designed to be much smaller, faster, and lightweight (single-binary, 140MB) so you can run it ne…

We also have a Grafana plugin we'll continue to improve to make it super easy to connect to Grafana, and Spice has a metrics endpoint and example Grafana dashboard for monitoring i…

Dremio is awesome. We've followed the Dremio journey from one of Jacques' original talks a couple of years back. Dremio's idea of caching tiers and reflections is powerful for perf…

Actually, we posted the original vision in Sep 2021 at https://blog.spiceai.org/posts/2021/09/07/introducing-spice.... for AI-driven applications and discussed needing a good sourc…

Yes, we're huge fans of DuckDB, Mark, Hannes and the team. What we've found is sometimes you want to materialize data in an OTLP DB, so what Spice gives you is the choice to store …

Thank you!