Spice.ai OSS Reference Docs

This section contains reference documentation for the Spice.ai runtime, CLI, API, and Spicepod configuration syntax.

🗃️ Spicepod specification

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🗃️ SQL Reference

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🗃️ Data Types Reference

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📄️ Models Grade Report

Spice AI graded Large-Language-Model (LLM) evaluation report

📄️ Task History

The Spice runtime stores information about completed tasks in the spice.runtime.task_history table. Each task represents a single unit of execution within the runtime, such as a SQL query or an AI chat completion, and is represented by a unique span.

📄️ Duration

Durations are represented as integers with a time unit suffix.

📄️ File Formats

File-based data connectors — including s3//, file//, sftp://, and others — support multiple structured and document file formats. This page details the format-specific parameters available for each.

📄️ Cron Schedules

The Runtime supports cron expressions with optional seconds, like /10 which evaluates to every 10th second (10, 20, 30, etc).

📄️ System Requirements

System requirements for running Spice.ai Open Source

📄️ Distributions

Distribution variants of the Spice runtime for different use cases and deployment scenarios, including data-only, GPU-accelerated, NAS, and allocator variants.

📄️ Memory

Guidelines and best practices for managing memory usage and optimizing performance in Spice deployments.

📄️ Performance Tuning

Comprehensive guide to optimizing query performance, acceleration, and resource utilization in Spice deployments.