Spice AI is not just another data indexer or data provider.
Spice.ai is a set of AI/ML-infra building blocks for creating data and AI-driven applications — web3 data included.
In October’s General Availability announcement we also announced Spice Firecache.
Spice Firecache is a real-time, in-memory SQL service based on cloud-scale DuckDB instances that enables blazing fast SQL query up to 10x the performance of general SQL query. For example, EigenLayer uses Spice Firecache to enable scenarios not possible before, including serving dynamic data to their high traffic dashboards, real-time monitoring, and analytics. ML models hosted on the Spice.ai platform can be paired with Firecache to power super-fast, low-latency inferencing, as demonstrated by the AI predictions demo on the Spice.ai website.
If you like DuckDB, you’ll love it at cloud-scale, automatically provisioned and updated with real-time data.
🔥 Spice Firecache in Preview
Spice.ai is preloaded with over 100TBs of Web3 and Asset Prices data which can be combined with your own PostgreSQL, MySQL, and data lake external data sources. While organizations need access to terabytes or petabytes of data, the working set of data that is used day-to-day is often orders of magnitude smaller, generally in the 10s of GBs.
Cloud-Scale DuckDB. Spice Firecache enables you to configure specific datasets for inclusion into cloud-scale managed DuckDB instances for query performance 10x or sometimes even 100x faster than general SQL query.
Platform managed. The entire Firecache data lifecycle, from ETL to query ensures datasets are updated in real-time and is completely platform managed. All the user has to do is enable Firecache on a dataset, via configuration as code through GitHub-connected Datasets, deploy it, and start querying.
Easy to query. Once datasets have been deployed, they can be queried by the same interfaces as general SQL query, including with the Playground SQL Query Editor in the Spice.ai portal, the HTTP API, the Apache Arrow Flight API, and SDKs.
Dedicated instances. Dedicated Firecache instances are deployed per organization and are Spice app-specific, only available to the Spice app to which they were deployed.
Easy to integrate. Simply swap to using the Firequery() method instead of the Query() method using one of the Go, Python, Node.js, or Rust SDKs to start using Firecache.
What it enables
Intelligent data and AI-driven software is often limited by the speed and cost of data retrieval from big data warehouses and systems.
High-performance access to data is required to power real-time operations, observability, analytics, ML inferencing, and recently popular Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for large-language-models (LLMs).
By keeping the day-to-day working set of frequently queried data available in Firecache, data retrieval latency can be significantly reduced, resulting in higher-performance (and lower-cost) frontends, applications, and AI-powered insights.
This is particularly beneficial for customers like EigenLayer who quickly rose to popularity, needing to make 10s of millions of SQL queries a month and growing to power their dynamic community and user dashboards. Spice Firecache ensures that software can meet user expectations for speed and interactivity, supercharging the user experience, all while reducing cost.
Spice Firecache is currently available in preview for Spice AI Design Partners and Enterprise customers.
Get in touch at hey@spice.ai if you’d like to trial Firecache for free.
Thank you!
The Team at Spice AI
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About Spice AI
Spice.ai is a set of AI/ML-infra building blocks for creating data and AI-driven applications — web3 data included.
Spice AI eliminates the complexity of building and operating costly data and AI infrastructure by composing real-time and historical time-series data, custom ETL, machine learning training and inferencing, in a high-performance, enterprise-grade platform.
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