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Spice AI
Company blog · spice.ai/blog · on HN as lukekimdataprogramming
Spice AI is the company blog at spice.ai, writing about data and programming. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL acceleration built on Vortex”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in one comment as a source for an alternative to DuckDB for ingest-heavy workloads, a SQLite and Vortex file accelerator (Spice Cayenne). Other mentions are a job post and an unrelated SIMD comment.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Spice.ai is the open data lakehouse for agents that's simple to operate at scale. Define a lakehouse once and deploy it for every customer, team, and agent.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL acceleration built on Vortex2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-18
What Hacker News says?
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 built in Rust on DataFusion. Hiring experienced Rust, distributed systems, data systems, and database engineers and DevRel. ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854584 Details: https://spice.ai/careers
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)”Submitted Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL acceleration built on Vortex as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSpice AI | Senior Software Engineer | GMT+10 (e.g. Australia) through GMT-7 (e.g. Seatle/SF/LA) | Remote | Full Time Spice AI provides building blocks for data and AI-driven applications by composing real-time and historical time-series data, high-performance SQL query, machine learning training and inferencing, in a single, interconnected AI backend-as-a-service. We just launched github.com/spiceai/spiceai, a unifi…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)”Submitted Apache DataFusion vs. DuckDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is exactly what we found. Ingest rates were tough. We partitioned and ran over multiple duckdb instances too (and wrangled the complexity). We ending up building a Sqlite + vortex file alternative for our use case: https://spice.ai/blog/introducing-spice-cayenne-data-acceler...
Comment linking /blog/introducing-spice-cayenne-data-accelerator
on “Distributed DuckDB Instance”Submitted Show HN: Spice 2.0 – Real-Time Analytical Query on Operational Data, Without ETL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTigerBeetle has static allocation for their known workload. SIMD is more useful for heavy parallel analytical workloads. There are probably returns from SIMD even for index updates on transactional inserts. SIMD is faster for: vectorized index comparisons, Vectorized Constraint Validation, Multi-Column SIMD Hashing, Masked Bitmaps for Nullable Fields, gather and scatter, string processing, casting to numeric types.…
Comment linking /learn/vortex
on “Postgres rewritten in Rust v0.2, now faster than Postgres and ClickHouse”