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Tile.ai is the company blog at tiledb.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.
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2019–2025first – last linked?
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Why HN links it
Linked as the site of TileDB, a database for complex data, in hiring threads and discussions of array and tabular data formats, including its vector search blog post. Comments cite it without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tile.ai is the Enterprise AI Data Substrate — a governed layer alongside the data and applications you already use, activating them in place for your AI.
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TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB, Inc. is the company behind TileDB, the first universal data engine. TileDB allows analytics professionals and data scientists to access, analyze, and share complex data sets with any tool at extreme scale. TileDB overcomes the constraints of columnar tables, flat files, and SQL-only tools, handling all data with a multi-dimensional array e…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted TileDB closes $15M Series A for universal data engine as a story · 94 points
HN discussionTileDB[1] supports both sparse and dense multidimensional arrays. We support returning data in arrow arrays or an arrow table as one of many ways we interoperate with computational tools. You can also access the data directly via numpy array, pandas, R data.frames and a number of integrations with MariaDB, Presto, Spark, GDAL, PDAL and more. Disclaimer: I am a member of the TileDB team. [1] https://tiledb.com/
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on “Apache Arrow 3.0”Submitted Coming-out party for Universal Databases as a story · 13 points
HN discussionTileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA, Greece/EU | https://tiledb.com/ TileDB has recently announced a $34 million Series B fund-raise and is actively hiring for engineers across a range of roles (SRE, backend/distributed systems, database internals, and more). You will have the opportunity to work on innovative technology that creates impact for challenging problems in genomics, geospatial, machine learning, dist…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted Why TileDB as a Vector Database as a story · 12 points
HN discussionTileDB, Inc. | Full-time | REMOTE | USA, Greece | https://tiledb.com/ TileDB is the database designed for discovery, built to organize, structure, and analyze any data. Our solutions for single-cell and population genomics are used by major pharmaceutical companies and research institutes, and power large public data collections such as the Cellxgene Discover Census. We are actively hiring for several roles building…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted The New Data Economics as a story · 6 points
HN discussionTileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB, Inc. is the company behind TileDB, the first universal data engine. TileDB allows analytics professionals and data scientists to access, analyze, and share complex data sets with any tool at extreme scale. TileDB overcomes the constraints of columnar tables, flat files, and SQL-only tools, handling all data with a multi-dimensional array e…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB, Inc. is the company behind TileDB, the first universal data engine. TileDB allows analytics professionals and data scientists to access, analyze, and share complex data sets with any tool at extreme scale. TileDB overcomes the constraints of columnar tables, flat files, and SQL-only tools, handling all data with a multi-dimensional array e…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB, Inc. is the company behind TileDB, the first universal data engine. TileDB allows analytics professionals and data scientists to access, analyze, and share complex data sets with any tool at extreme scale. TileDB overcomes the constraints of columnar tables, flat files, and SQL-only tools, handling all data with a multi-dimensional array e…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB, Inc. is the company behind TileDB, the first universal data engine. TileDB allows analytics professionals and data scientists to access, analyze, and share complex data sets with any tool at extreme scale. TileDB overcomes the constraints of columnar tables, flat files, and SQL-only tools, handling all data with a multi-dimensional array e…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB transforms the lives of analytics professionals and data scientists with a universal database, allowing them to access, analyze, and share any data with any tool at global scale. TileDB unifies the way we think about data, delivering superior performance and foundational data management capabilities. All data — tables, genomics, images, vid…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Disclaimer: I'm a member of the TileDB team. > embedded, immutable, syncable relational database. TileDB Embedded ( https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB ) checks all four of these boxes. It is a universal storage engine based on dense and sparse multi-dimensional arrays. I explain each point below. > embedded TileDB Embedded [1] is an open source (MIT licensed) embeddable C++ library which exposes C and C++ APIs. We…
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on “The database I wish I had”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB, Inc. is the company behind TileDB, the first universal data engine. TileDB allows analytics professionals and data scientists to access, analyze, and share complex data sets with any tool at extreme scale. TileDB overcomes the constraints of columnar tables, flat files, and SQL-only tools, handling all data with a multi-dimensional array e…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB, Inc. is the company behind TileDB, the first universal data engine. TileDB allows analytics professionals and data scientists to access, analyze, and share complex data sets with any tool at extreme scale. TileDB overcomes the constraints of columnar tables, flat files, and SQL-only tools, handling all data with a multi-dimensional array e…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB, Inc. is the company behind TileDB, the first universal data engine. TileDB allows analytics professionals and data scientists to access, analyze, and share complex data sets with any tool at extreme scale. TileDB overcomes the constraints of columnar tables, flat files, and SQL-only tools, handling all data with a multi-dimensional array e…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB, Inc. is a data management company spun out of Intel Labs and MIT to help Data Science teams make faster discoveries, by giving them a more natural way to store, analyze and share large sets of diverse data, so that they can stop wasting time working around performance limitations, inadequate data storage formats, and unfamiliar tooling. Ti…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)”Hi folks, Stavros from TileDB here. Here are my two cents on tabular data. TileDB (Embedded) is a very serious competitor to Parquet, the only other sane choice IMO when it comes to storing large volumes of tabular data (especially when combined with Arrow). Admittedly, we haven’t been advertising TileDB’s tabular capabilities, but that’s only because we were busy with much more challenging applications, such as gen…
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on “Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?”Have you see tiledb? https://tiledb.com/data-types/dataframes My team is currently transitioning from HDF5 to tiledb for genomics data.
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on “Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?”Interesting. Have you come across TileDB before? https://tiledb.com/
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on “Historical weather data API for machine learning, free for non-commercial”Hi all, we'd love to hear your thoughts about TileDB ( https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB ), which offers the key advantages of both HDF5 and Zarr, such as chunked dense arrays, numerous compression filters and native cloud support. But TileDB is more as it also supports sparse arrays and integrates with more languages, databases and data science tools. If you'd like your data to be readable by multiple languages…
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on “Loading NumPy arrays from disk: mmap() vs. Zarr/HDF5”The landing page seems to be a bit confusing. This page does a better job at explaining it imo: https://tiledb.com/embedded/ Without experience with the product, it's core seems to be a wrapper around stored data (sql, hdf, etc.) over several protocols (mysql, static files (s3) etc).
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on “TileDB closes $15M Series A for universal data engine”I don't know if the creators of TileDB visit HN, but if they do - it would be nice to see a code example that showcases what makes TileDB unique. Right now, I don't see any benefit versus serializing a data frame in hdf5 and storing it in Redis or cloud blob storage. (Reading https://tiledb.com/developer , the Github, or the blog - none of it shows me anything amazing) Edit: browsing around the site, I finally found…
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on “TileDB 2.0 and the Future of Data Science”Just wanted to give a major +1 to xarray. It is an excellent approach to labeled n-dimensional arrays, and has a good ecosystem/community in the Earth Science domains.. One nice integration with xarray is with an optimized data store like Zarr [1], TileDB [2] or Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs [3], where you can pull only the pieces of the nd-array relevant to your problem, rather than downloading a large monolithic netCDF…
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on “Named Tensors”TileDB[1] offers an embedded SQL experience for python[2]. We use MariaDB built in embedded mode to allow running sql against TileDB Arrays. This can be combined with pandas.read_sql to load the results directly into a pandas array. I wrote this implementation for the embedded SQL, so happy to answer any questions on it. The embedded SQL in its early stages, but should be fully functional for any queries that MariaD…
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on “Five methods for Filtering data with multiple conditions in Python”There is a follow up article proposing a solution by the TileDB team [1]. [1] https://tiledb.com/blog/tiledb-as-the-data-engine-for-machin...
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on “Finding a standard dataset format for machine learning (2020)”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB is the database for complex data, allowing data scientists, researchers, and analysts to access, analyze, and share any data with any tool at global scale. We have just launched a vector search library leveraging TileDB and TileDB Cloud for powerful local search and seamless scaling to multi-modal organizational datasets and batched computa…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA, Greece/EU | https://tiledb.com TileDB has recently announced a $34 million Series B fund-raise and is actively hiring for engineers across a range of roles (SRE, backend/distributed systems, Python, C++, and more). You will have the opportunity to work on innovative technology that creates impact for challenging problems in genomics, geospatial, machine learning, distributed…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)”TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | USA | Greece | https://tiledb.com TileDB transforms the lives of analytics professionals and data scientists with a universal database, allowing them to access, analyze, and share any data with any tool at global scale. TileDB unifies the way we think about data, delivering superior performance and foundational data management capabilities. All data — tables, genomics, images, vid…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)”