Spice v0.13.2-alpha (June 3, 2024)

The v0.13.2-alpha release is focused on quality and stability with improvements to federated query push-down, telemetry, and query history.

Highlights

• Filesystem Data Connector: Adds the Filesystem Data Connector for directly using files as data sources.

• Federated Query Push-Down: Improved stability and schema compatibility for federated queries.

• Enhanced Telemetry: Runtime Metrics now include last update time for accelerated datasets, count of refresh errors, and new metrics for query duration and failures.

• Query History: Enabled query history logging for Arrow Flight queries in addition to HTTP queries.

Contributors

• @lukekim
• @y-f-u
• @ewgenius
• @phillipleblanc
• @Jeadie
• @Sevenannn
• @sgrebnov
• @gloomweaver
• @mach-kernel

What’s Changed

• Update ROADMAP.md May 27, 2024 by @lukekim in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1535
• update helm chart version and use v0.13.1-alpha by @y-f-u in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1536
• version correction in v0.13.1 release note by @y-f-u in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1538
• update version to v0.14.0-alpha by @y-f-u in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1539
• Update spice_cloud - connect to cloud api by @ewgenius in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1523
• Update spice_cloud extension params, and remove logging by @ewgenius in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1541
• Update MSRV to 1.78 and remove unused Rust Version parameter in CI by @phillipleblanc in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1540
• Improve llm UX in spicepod.yaml by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1545
• Store local runtime metrics in Timestamp with nanoseconds precision and UTC time by @ewgenius in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1548
• Object store metadata Table provider by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1518
• Remove clickhouse password requirement by @Sevenannn in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1547
• pretty print loaded rows number by @y-f-u in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1553
• Fix UNION ALL federated push down by @phillipleblanc in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1550
• Update mistral, fix bugs and improve local file DX by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1552
• Cast runtime.metrics schema, if remote (spiceai) data connector provided by @ewgenius in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1554
• Use proper MySQL dialect during federation push-down by @phillipleblanc in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1555
• parallel load dataset when starting up by @y-f-u in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1551
• fix linter warning on Scanf return value by @y-f-u in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1556
• Update spice cloud connect api endpoint by @ewgenius in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1557
• Create new HTTP endpoint to create embeddings. by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1558
• Query History support for Flight API by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1549
• Don’t cache queries for runtime tables by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1561
• Fix schema incompatibility on federated push-down queries by @phillipleblanc in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1560
• move ’embeddings’ to top-level concept in spicepod.yaml by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1564
• object_store table provider for UTF8 data formats by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1562
• Improve connectivity for JDBC clients, like Tableau by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1563
• Enable datasets from local filesystem by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1584
• Adds benchmarking tests for Spice by @phillipleblanc in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1577
• Push down correct timestamp expr to SQLite, add binary type mapping by @mach-kernel in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1566
• Add query_duration_seconds and query_failures metrics by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1575
• Use /app as a default workdir in spiceai docker image by @ewgenius in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1586
• Add support for both file:// and file:/ by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1587
• put load_datasets as the latest step along with start_servers by @y-f-u in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1559
• Embedding columns (from embedding providers) are now run inside datafusion plans. by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1576
• Support BinaryArray in DuckDB accelerations by @phillipleblanc in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1595
• Add cache header to Flight API and Spice REPL indicator by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1591
• Add accelerated datasets refresh metrics by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1589
• update the error when starting spice sql with no runtime to be actionable by @digadeesh in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1597
• add odbc integration test by @y-f-u in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1590
• Fix bug in instantiating EmbeddingConnector by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1592
• readme change to reflect new cli output by @y-f-u in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1602
• Update version v0.13.2 by @ewgenius in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1604
• Roadmap changes Jun 3, 2024 by @lukekim in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/1609

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/compare/v0.13.1-alpha...v0.13.2

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