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LakeSail
Company blog · lakesail.com/blogdataprogrammingai
LakeSail is the company blog at lakesail.com, writing about data, programming and ai. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Sail's MCP Server: Spark Analytics for LLM Agents”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post about building a toy SQL parser in one week. One commenter cites it as the starting point for building a production parser, without judging its quality.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Run analytics and AI pipelines with SQL and Python on Sail, the Rust-native multimodal data engine. Bring your Spark SQL and DataFrame code.
Most-linked posts?
- Sail's MCP Server: Spark Analytics for LLM Agents3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-25
- Writing a Rust SQL Parser in One Week3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-06
What Hacker News says?
That's valid criticism, I kinda hand-waved the "months" part. I read everything I could about parsers while building this (I have a CS background but hadn't thought about parsers in a long time) and came across this blog post https://lakesail.com/blog/sql-parser-in-one-week/ which talked about building a toy parser in a week, so I scaled that up to months for a production one.
Comment linking /blog/sql-parser-in-one-week/
on “I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code”Submitted Sail's MCP Server: Spark Analytics for LLM Agents as a story · 15 points
HN discussionHey HN! We're excited to share Sail 0.3, our open-source distributed computing framework that serves as a drop-in replacement for Apache Spark. Sail is a Rust-native execution engine that speaks the Spark Connect protocol. Your existing Spark SQL and DataFrame code runs unchanged, but executes on average 4x faster while using 94% less infrastructure spend. Here's how we are achieving that performance: 1. No JVM over…
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on “Sail: a Rust-Based Spark Replacement”Submitted Sail 0.2: Spark replacement in Rust, runs 4x faster, drop-in PySpark compatible as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agent Skills: One-Shot PySpark from the CLI as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a Rust SQL Parser in One Week as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sail: a Rust-Based Spark Replacement as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a Rust SQL Parser in One Week as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sail MCP Server: Spark Analytics for LLM Agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supercharge Spark: Quadruple Speed, Cut Costs by 94% as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lakehouse Format Is an Engine Contract as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sail MCP Server: Spark Analytics for LLM Agents as a story · 1 points
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