# spiceai

> A portable accelerated SQL query, search, and LLM-inference engine, written in Rust, for data-grounded AI apps and agents.

- **URL**: https://www.freshcrate.ai/projects/spiceai
- **Author**: spiceai
- **Category**: RAG & Memory
- **Latest version**: `v2.0.0` (2026-06-05)
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Source**: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai
- **Homepage**: https://docs.spiceai.org
- **Language**: Rust
- **GitHub**: 2,880 stars, 187 forks
- **Registry**: github
- **Tags**: `artificial-intelligence`, `data`, `data-federation`, `developers`, `full-text-search`, `infrastructure`, `llm-inference`, `machine-learning`, `rust`

## Description

A portable accelerated SQL query, search, and LLM-inference engine, written in Rust, for data-grounded AI apps and agents.

## Recent releases

| Version | Date | Urgency | Changes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `v2.0.0` | 2026-06-05 | High | # Spice v2.0.0 (June 4, 2026)  Spice v2.0.0 is the next major release of Spice and a major milestone in the project's development, advancing Spice from a single-node engine into a distributed data and query platform built for enterprise AI agents. These agents need low-latency, governed access to data spread across many production systems, and because they generate their own queries autonomously, that access has to be sandboxed, observable, and able to absorb occasional heavy analytical querie |
| `v1.11.6` | 2026-05-06 | High | # Spice v1.11.6 (May 6, 2026)  Spice v1.11.6 is a patch release improving **DynamoDB** bootstrap ingestion performance and making **Helm chart** health probes configurable.  ## What's New in v1.11.6  ### DynamoDB: Faster Bootstrap Ingestion  Improved [DynamoDB](https://spiceai.org/docs/components/data-connectors/dynamodb) bootstrap ingestion throughput for `refresh_mode: changes` datasets ([#10616](https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/10616)). Large tables now maintain a high, steady |
| `v2.0.0-rc.3` | 2026-04-20 | High | # Spice v2.0.0-rc.3 (Apr 18, 2026)  v2.0.0-rc.3 is the third release candidate for advanced testing of v2.0, building on [v2.0.0-rc.2](https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc.2).  Highlights in this release candidate include:  - **HTTP Connector Enhancements** with OAuth2 refresh-token authentication, query-parameter pagination, and map-to-array conversion for broader API compatibility - **Databricks and Unity Catalog Reliability Improvements** with resilience controls, improve |
| `v2.0.0-unstable` | 2026-04-10 | Medium | This is the release candidate 2.0.0-unstable |
| `v2.0.0-rc.2` | 2026-04-10 | Medium | # Spice v2.0.0-rc.2 (Apr 9, 2026)  v2.0.0-rc.2 is the second release candidate for advanced testing of v2.0, building on [v2.0.0-rc.1](https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc.1).  Highlights in this release candidate include:  - **Distributed Spice Cayenne Query and Write Improvements** with data-local query routing and partition-aware write-through - **DataFusion v52.4.0 Upgrade** with aligned `arrow-rs`, `datafusion-federation`, and `datafusion-table-providers` - **MERGE INTO |
| `v1.11.5` | 2026-04-01 | Medium | # Spice v1.11.5 (Apr 1, 2026)  Spice v1.11.5 is a patch release improving **`on_zero_results: use_source`** fallback performance, **Delta Lake** timestamp predicate data skipping, **S3 Parquet** read performance, **PostgreSQL** partitioned table support, **Cayenne** target file size handling, and preparing the CLI for v2.0 runtime upgrades.  ## What's New in v1.11.5  ### `on_zero_results: use_source` Fallback Performance Improvement  Improved the [`on_zero_results: use_source`](https://s |
| `v1.11.5` | 2026-04-01 | Medium | # Spice v1.11.5 (Apr 1, 2026)  Spice v1.11.5 is a patch release improving **`on_zero_results: use_source`** fallback performance, **Delta Lake** timestamp predicate data skipping, **S3 Parquet** read performance, **PostgreSQL** partitioned table support, **Cayenne** target file size handling, and preparing the CLI for v2.0 runtime upgrades.  ## What's New in v1.11.5  ### `on_zero_results: use_source` Fallback Performance Improvement  Improved the [`on_zero_results: use_source`](https://s |
| `v1.11.5` | 2026-04-01 | Medium | # Spice v1.11.5 (Apr 1, 2026)  Spice v1.11.5 is a patch release improving **`on_zero_results: use_source`** fallback performance, **Delta Lake** timestamp predicate data skipping, **S3 Parquet** read performance, **PostgreSQL** partitioned table support, **Cayenne** target file size handling, and preparing the CLI for v2.0 runtime upgrades.  ## What's New in v1.11.5  ### `on_zero_results: use_source` Fallback Performance Improvement  Improved the [`on_zero_results: use_source`](https://s |
| `v1.11.5` | 2026-04-01 | Medium | # Spice v1.11.5 (Apr 1, 2026)  Spice v1.11.5 is a patch release improving **`on_zero_results: use_source`** fallback performance, **Delta Lake** timestamp predicate data skipping, **S3 Parquet** read performance, **PostgreSQL** partitioned table support, **Cayenne** target file size handling, and preparing the CLI for v2.0 runtime upgrades.  ## What's New in v1.11.5  ### `on_zero_results: use_source` Fallback Performance Improvement  Improved the [`on_zero_results: use_source`](https://s |
| `v1.11.5` | 2026-04-01 | Medium | # Spice v1.11.5 (Apr 1, 2026)  Spice v1.11.5 is a patch release improving **`on_zero_results: use_source`** fallback performance, **Delta Lake** timestamp predicate data skipping, **S3 Parquet** read performance, **PostgreSQL** partitioned table support, **Cayenne** target file size handling, and preparing the CLI for v2.0 runtime upgrades.  ## What's New in v1.11.5  ### `on_zero_results: use_source` Fallback Performance Improvement  Improved the [`on_zero_results: use_source`](https://s |

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