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Spiral
Company blog · spiraldb.com/postdatasystemsprogramming
Spiral is the company blog at spiraldb.com, writing about data, systems and programming. Since 2025, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Achieveing lower latencies with S3 object storage”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Spiral's site for Vortex, a file format, and SpiralDB's distributed SQL engine. Commenters point to its performance claims, though one notes the benchmarks are hard to find.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Turn raw robot data into exact, tested, and versioned datasets for training and evaluation. Search synchronized streams down to the moment and stream reviewed windows directly to GPUs.
Most-linked posts?
- Achieveing lower latencies with S3 object storage3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-16
- Vortex: One Format for Any Shape2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-16
- Machines Don't Press Play2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-04
What Hacker News says?
Thanks, it was behind a "see benchmarks" link at the very bottom of https://spiraldb.com/ . I noticed these claims on both vortex.dev and https://spiraldb.com/vortex website, but both had no hyperlink to any actual metrics.
Comment linking /vortex
on “Spiral”Submitted Spiral as a story · 261 points
HN discussionCheck the Vortex file format ( https://vortex.dev/ ), if you are interested in a distributed SQL engine then you can check SpiralDB ( https://spiraldb.com/ ), I haven’t used this one personally but they created Vortex. If you can drop the “distributed” part, then plug DuckDB ( https://duckdb.org/ ) and query Parquet (out of the box) or Vortex ( https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/vortex.html ) with it.
Comment linking /
on “Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables”Submitted Achieveing lower latencies with S3 object storage as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machines Don't Press Play as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vortex: One Format for Any Shape as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards Vortex 1.0 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Vortex to accelerate Apache Iceberg queries up to 4x as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting better performance out of object storage as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting better performance out of object storage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From S3 to GPU in One Copy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vortex: One Format for Any Shape as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pattern Matching on Compressed Strings Without Decompression as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machines do not press play: From temporal compression to model-ready tensors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have your cake and decompress it too as a story · 1 points
HN discussion