Spice.ai – Building blocks for data and time-series AI applications

In plain words

Spice.ai provides building blocks for developers creating data and time-series AI applications. The platform launched in October 2023 and offers components designed to simplify working with temporal data and machine learning models. It serves developers and data engineers who need to build AI systems that process time-dependent information, such as forecasting or anomaly detection. The platform focuses on providing reusable, modular tools rather than a complete end-to-end solution.

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  Spice.ai – open-source, time series AI for developers2021 · blog.spiceai.org · ▲35
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  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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  Spice.ai2023 · spice.ai · ▲63

  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. With v2.0, you can add a real-time analytics node to your operational database with high-throughput native CDC replication. 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. In 2025 we launched Spice Cayenne [5], our acceleration and query…

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