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Spice Cloud v1.9.0: Introducing the Spice Cayenne Data Accelerator

Spice Cloud & Spice.ai Enterprise 1.9.0 are live! Our mission at Spice is to make building data-intensive applications and AI systems easier, faster, and more secure. With v1.9.0, we’re taking a big step forward. This release introduces Spice Cayenne, our new premier data accelerator based on Vortex, upgrades to DataFusion v50 and DuckDB v1.4.2, new HTTP Data Connector support for querying API endpoints […]

Spice Cloud v1.9.0: Introducing the Spice Cayenne Data Accelerator
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Write to Apache Iceberg Tables with SQL in Spice

With the release of Spice v1.8, developers can now write directly to Apache Iceberg tables and catalogs using standard SQL INSERT_INTO statements.  This feature extends Spice’s SQL federation capabilities beyond reads, enabling data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline workloads to write results back into Iceberg directly from the same runtime used for queries and acceleration. What sets Spice apart from other query engines is its […]

Write to Apache Iceberg Tables with SQL in Spice
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Build Better Apps with Spice.ai SQL Query Federation & Acceleration

Modern applications succeed when they can deliver speed, intelligence, and reliability at scale. Achieving that depends increasingly on how quickly and efficiently they can access the relevant underlying data sources. Most enterprises, however, rely on pipelines, warehouses, and APIs that make real-time or intelligent apps prohibitively expensive or slow. Engineering teams are faced with how […]

Build Better Apps with Spice.ai SQL Query Federation & Acceleration
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Spice Cloud v1.8.0: Iceberg Write Support, Acceleration Snapshots & More

Spice Cloud & Spice.ai Enterprise 1.8.0 are live! v1.8.0 includes Iceberg write support, acceleration snapshots, partitioned S3 Vector indexes, a new AI SQL function for LLM integration, and an updated Spice.js SDK. V1.8.0 also introduces developer experience upgrades, including a redesigned Spice Cloud dashboard with tabbed navigation: Spice Cloud customers will automatically upgrade to v1.8.0 on deployment, while […]

Spice Cloud v1.8.0: Iceberg Write Support, Acceleration Snapshots & More
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Making Object Storage Operational for Real-Time and AI Workloads

TLDR Introduction Although legacy systems and workflows remain common, many enterprises are re-evaluating their architectures to meet new demands  – driven in part, but not exclusively, by AI – that require support for more data-intensive and real-time applications. The underlying storage needs for these novel workloads are generally outside the bounds of a traditional operational […]

Making Object Storage Operational for Real-Time and AI Workloads
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Spice Cloud v1.7.0: DataFusion v49, Full-Text Search Updates & More

Spice Cloud & Spice.ai Enterprise 1.7.0 are now live, bringing performance upgrades with DataFusion v49, real-time full-text search indexing, EmbeddingGemma support, and improvements across search, embeddings, and API integrations. Spice Cloud customers will automatically upgrade to v1.7.0 on deployment, while Spice.ai Enterprise customers can consume the Enterprise v1.7.0 image from the Spice AWS Marketplace listing. What’s New in v1.7.0 […]

Spice Cloud v1.7.0: DataFusion v49, Full-Text Search Updates & More
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True Hybrid Search: Vector, Full-Text, and SQL in One Runtime

TL;DR  Show Me the (Data)! It’s well established (and maybe even trite) to say that enterprises are going all-in on artificial intelligence, with more than $40 billion directed toward generative AI projects in recent years. The initial results have been underwhelming. A recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s NANDA initiative concluded that despite the enormous allocation of […]

True Hybrid Search: Vector, Full-Text, and SQL in One Runtime
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Basis Set Ventures Deploys Spice.ai to Power Natural Language Queries and Mitigate Hallucinations

TL;DR Basis Set Ventures needed to search continuously refreshed data on 10,000+ people and companies without the burden of managing embeddings or pipelines. Using Spice’s data and AI platform, Basis Set investors can now run natural language searches directly against fresh datasets – ultimately delivering accurate, data-grounded insights that help them spot opportunities earlier and act […]

Basis Set Ventures Deploys Spice.ai to Power Natural Language Queries and Mitigate Hallucinations
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Faster, Simpler Dashboards with Spice and Power BI

TL;DR Spice AI built a Microsoft Power BI Connector on top of the Flight SQL ADBC driver that makes it easy for Power BI users to query across operational databases, analytical warehouses, and object stores. Spice federates large OLTP and OLAP datasets and accelerates them at the application layer in DuckDB and Arrow to support sub-second dashboards, driving significant […]

Faster, Simpler Dashboards with Spice and Power BI
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Spice.ai Now Supports Amazon S3 Vectors For Vector Search at Petabyte Scale!

Today, we’re announcing native support for Amazon S3 Vectors in the Spice.ai Open Source data and AI compute engine. As an AWS Startup Partner and AWS Marketplace Seller, Spice AI partners with AWS across technology integration, joint go-to-market, and co-selling to deliver solutions for enterprise customers that address real-world data challenges, accelerating the delivery of AI-native applications on AWS. […]

Spice.ai Now Supports Amazon S3 Vectors For Vector Search at Petabyte Scale!
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Announcing Our Partnership with Databricks!

Today we announced our partnership with Databricks, the leading data and AI platform! We’re also excited to roll out new integrations that support the Databricks platform, enabling customers to build faster and more reliable apps and agents that extend across cloud, on-premises, and edge. New capabilities now available to Databricks customers include: ‍ With Spice AI’s integrations […]

Announcing Our Partnership with Databricks!
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The Spice.ai for GitHub Copilot Extension is now available!

The new Spice.ai for GitHub Copilot Extension, now available in preview, gives developers access to data from external sources directly within the GitHub Copilot experience. Developers often face the hassle of switching between multiple environments to get the data they need. Whether it’s referencing internal documentation or copying details from another ticketing system, the constant context-switching […]

The Spice.ai for GitHub Copilot Extension is now available!

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