Spice v0.19-beta (Oct 7, 2024)

Announcing the release of Spice v0.19-beta 📦

Spice v0.19.0-beta brings performance improvements for accelerators and expanded TPC-DS coverage. A new Azure Blob Storage data connector has also been added.

Highlights in v0.19.0-beta

Improved TPC-DS Coverage: Enhanced support for TPC-DS derived queries.

CLI SQL REPL: The CLI SQL REPL (spice sql) now supports multi-line editing and tab indentation. Note, a terminating semi-colon ‘;’ is now required for each executed SQL block.

Azure Storage Data Connector: A new Azure Blob Storage data connector (abfs://) has been added, enabling federated SQL queries on files stored in Azure Blob-compatible endpoints, including Azure BlobFS (abfss://) and Azure Data Lake (adl://). Supported file formats can be specified using the file_format parameter.

Example spicepod.yml:

datasets:
  - from: abfs://foocontainer/taxi_sample.csv
    name: azure_test
    params:
      azure_account: spiceadls
      azure_access_key: abc123==
      file_format: csv

For a full list of supported files, see the Object Store File Formats documentation.

For more details, see the Azure Blob Storage Data Connector documentation.

Breaking Changes

• Spice.ai Data Connector: The key for the Spice.ai Cloud Platform Data Connector has changed from spiceai to spice.ai. To upgrade, change uses of from: spiceai: to from: spice.ai:.

• GitHub Data Connector: Pull Requests column login has been renamed to author.

• CLI SQL REPL: A terminating semi-colon ‘;’ is now required for each executed SQL block.

• Spicepod Hot-Reload: When running spiced directly, hot-reload of spicepod.yml configuration is now disabled. Run with spice run to use hot-reload.

Contributors

• @sgrebnov
• @Jeadie
• @Sevenannn
• @peasee
• @ewgenius
• @slyons
• @phillipleblanc
• @lukekim

Dependencies

• DataFusion Table Providers: Upgraded to rev 826814ab149aad8ee668454c83a0650fb8b18d60.

What’s Changed

• Bump tonic from 0.12.2 to 0.12.3 by @dependabot in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2880
• Verify benchmark query results using snapshot testing (s3 connector) by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2902
• Fix paths-ignore: by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2906
• Rename spiceai data connector to spice.ai by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2899
• Update ROADMAP.md by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2907
• Helm update for helm for 0.18.3-beta by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2910
• Add tpcds queries by @Sevenannn in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2918
• Fix paths-ignore for docs. by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2911
• feat: Support LIKE expressions in GitHub filter pushdown by @peasee in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2903
• feat: Support date comparison pushdown in GitHub connector by @peasee in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2904
• Improve aggregation and union queries unparsing by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2925
• Initialize file based accelerators on dataset reload by @Sevenannn in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2923
• Update spiceai/spiceai for next release by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2928
• Verify TPC-H benchmark query results for arrow acceleration by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2927
• Update spicepod.schema.json by @github-actions in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2912
• Use structured output for NSQL by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2922
• Update TPC-DS queries to use supported date addition format by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2930
• Add busy_timeout accelerator param for Sqlite by @Sevenannn in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2855
• Use Cosine Similarity in vector search by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2932
• Add support for passing x-spiceai-app-id metadata in spiceai data connector by @ewgenius in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2934
• docs: update beta accelerator criteria by @peasee in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2905
• Azure Connector implementation by @slyons in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2926
• Local embedding model from relative paths by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2908
• Add Markdown aware chunker when params.file_format: md. by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2943
• ‘spice version’ without structured logging by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2944
• Bump tempfile from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2878
• feat: GraphQL commit query parameters by @peasee in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2945
• Update OpenAI client and use new request fields by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2951
• refactor: Rename GitHub pulls login to author by @peasee in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2954
• Run tpcds benchmarks for accelerators by @Sevenannn in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2853
• Add spiced arg --pods-watcher-enabled. Watcher disabled by default for spiced. by @ewgenius in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2953
• Add error message when spicepod has embeddings or models without ‘–features models’ by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2952
• Adding multi-line editing and tab indentation to sql REPL by @slyons in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2949
• Update MySQL ghcr image to include tpcds data by @Sevenannn in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2941
• Document DataFusion limitation: The context only support single SQL Statement, Date Arithmetic like date + 3 not supported by @Sevenannn in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2970
• Bump snafu from 0.8.4 to 0.8.5 by @dependabot in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2876
• Bump async-trait from 0.1.82 to 0.1.83 by @dependabot in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2879
• Bump async-graphql from 7.0.9 to 7.0.11 in the cargo group by @dependabot in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2950
• Verify TPC-H benchmark query results for MySQL by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2972
• Verify TPCH benchmark query results for Postgres by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2973
• Verify TPCH benchmark query results for sqlite acceleration by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2974
• Verify TPCH benchmark query results for duckdb (in-memory) acceleration by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2975
• Support for mdx file extensions to apply a markdown splitter by @ewgenius in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2977
• Don’t assume first vector or content will be non-null/zero by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2940
• use custom chunk sizers for HF, local and OpenAI models by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2971
• Ensure we return N unique documents, not N unique chunks by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2976
• Fix issues parsing messages[*].tool_calls for local models by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2957
• text -> SQL trait to customise per model. by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2942
• Remove system message from ToolUsingChat. by @Jeadie in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2978
• Make logical plan to sql more robust (improve ORDER BY; support round for Postgres) by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2984
• Add connection_pool_size parameter for Postgres accelerator by @Sevenannn in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2969
• Fix dataset configure prompt by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2991
• Verify TPCH benchmark query results for Databricks(odbc) by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2989
• Verify TPCH benchmark query results for Databricks (delta_lake) by @sgrebnov in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2982
• Set log level for anonymous telemetry traces to trace by @phillipleblanc in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2995
• Improvements to issue templates by @lukekim in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2992
• spice login writes to .env.local if present by @slyons in https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/2996

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/compare/v0.18.3-beta...v0.19.0-beta

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