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 as tables, and many more improvements across performance, scalability, and developer experience.

Spice Cloud customers will automatically upgrade to v1.9.0 on deployment, while Spice.ai Enterprise customers can consume the Enterprise v1.9.0 image from the Spice AWS Marketplace listing.

What’s New in v1.9.0

Cayenne Data Accelerator (Beta)

Cayenne is the new premier data accelerator for high-volume, multi-file workloads. Built on the Vortex columnar format from the Linux Foundation, Cayenne offers better ingestion and query performance than DuckDB without single-file scaling limits. Spice Cayenne supports high concurrency, retention policies, and SQL-based lifecycle management.

Learn more about getting started with Cayenne in the docs.

Apache DataFusion v50 Upgrade

DataFusion v50 features faster filter pushdown, new SQL functions, and more reliable execution plans. Learn more in the Apache DataFusion blog.

HTTP Data Connector: Query Endpoints as Tables

Query HTTP endpoints as tables in SQL queries with dynamic filters, with full support for results-caching including new stale-while-revalidate (SWR) support. Learn more here.

Full-Text and Vector Search on Views

You can now add full-text indexes or embeddings to accelerated views for advanced search across pre-aggregated or transformed data. Vector engines on views are now also supported. Visit the search and embeddings docs for more information.

AWS Authentication Improvements

AWS SDK credential initialization now includes more robust retry logic and better handling, supporting transient and extended network and AWS outages without manual intervention. Learn more.

Additional Updates

• DuckDB v1.4.2: Composite ART indexes for accelerated table scans, intermediate materialization, and better refresh performance
• Git Data Connector: Query data directly from Git repositories 
• DynamoDB Connector Improvements: Improved filter handling, parallel scan support, and better handling for misconfigured queries
• Spice Java SDK v0.4.0 with configurable memory limits
• CLI Improvements: version pinning, persistent query history, and tab completion
• Dedicated Query Thread Pool is now enabled by default

For more details on v1.9.0, visit the release notes.

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New Recipe in the Spice Cookbook: HTTP Data Connector

 Learn how to pull data from any HTTP API directly into Spice and query it with SQL. This recipe walks through anexample using the TVMaze API. Try the cookbook here.

v1.9 Release Community Call

Join us on Tuesday, December 9th at 4:00 pm PST for live demos of the new functionality delivered in v1.9! Register here.

Resources to Get Started with Spice

• Sign up for Spice Cloud for free, or get started with Spice Open Source
• Explore the Spice cookbooks and docs
• Schedule a demo if you'd like to see the product live or have any questions

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