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Spice.ai – materialize, accelerate, and query SQL data from any source▲177
Hi HN, We're Luke and Phillip, and we're building Spice.ai OSS - a lightweight, portable runtime, built in Rust and powered by Apache DataFusion to locally materialize, accelerate, and query data tables sourced from any database, data warehouse or data lake. Phillip and I first introduced Spice on Show HN in September 2021. Since then, we’ve been schooled and humbled in every way building 100TB+ data and ML systems for the https://spice.ai cloud platform. Along with our customers, we struggled with getting fast, low-latency, high-concurrency SQL query within a budget, accessing and…
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Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX▲164
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nuvo No-Code Data Pipelines▲384
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Goka – distributed stream processing library for Kafka written in Go▲105
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CamelAI▲194
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Hasura – A Postgres BaaS and Kubernetes PaaS on Your Own Infrastructure▲259
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Lance – Deep Learning with DuckDB and Arrow▲65
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TurboSQL▲120
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Instill VDP▲130
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AI Assistant for SQL by Weld▲119
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Kueri Platform▲121
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Open-Source Business Intelligence for BigQuery – Looker Alternative▲95
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KubeDB – Kubernetes-ready production-grade databases▲108
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PipeSQL – Building SQL queries bottom-up using pipes and filters▲36
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Hello Everyone! We built SQLFlow as a lightweight stream processing engine. We leverage DuckDB as the stream processing engine, which gives SQLFlow the ability to process 10's of thousands of messages a second using ~250MiB of memory! DuckDB also supports a rich ecosystem of sinks and connectors! https://sql-flow.com/docs/category/tutorials/ https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow We were tired of running JVM's for simple stream processing, and also of bespoke one off stream processors I would love your feedback, criticisms and/or…
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Build Real-Time Data Pipelines with Spark Streamliner▲20
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Hi HN, we’re Luke and Phillip, and we’re building Spice.ai OSS - a lightweight, portable data and AI engine and powered by Apache DataFusion & Ballista for SQL query, hybrid-search, and LLM-inference across disaggregated-storage used by enterprises like Barracuda Networks and Twilio. We first introduced Spice [1] on HN in 2021 and re-launched it on HN [2] in 2024 re-built from the ground up in Rust. Spice includes the concept of a Data Accelerator [3], which is a way to materialize data from disparate sources, such as other databases, in embedded databases like SQLite and DuckDB. Today we’re…
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