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Speedata

: 2019

Speedata Website, Blog & Press Pages - aVenture Research

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4 pages

Accelerated Spark Service: Early Access/spark-early-access
The Speedata APU processes Apache Spark and AI workloads while keeping data in AWS, Azure, or GCP, with up to $10,000 in free APU hours available.
Product/product
Dramatic hardware acceleration for analytics workloads
Spark Workload Analyzer/workload-analyzer
The page offers a test to compare the speed of Spark workloads on Speedata’s APU, using CLI, browser uploads, or TPC-DS benchmarks.
Technology/technology
right at the hardware layer, with zero code changes

Blog

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259× Faster! What Microsoft's Award-Winning SIGMOD Paper Says About the Speedata APU/post/259-faster-what-microsoft-s-award-winning-sigmod-paper-says-about-the-speedata-apu
Microsoft's CoddSpeed paper won the Best Industry Paper Award at SIGMOD 2026. Inside it: the Speedata Analytics Processing Unit (APU), integrated and benchmarked by Microsoft, delivering up to 259× speedup on TPC-H queries.
Can GPUs accelerate data analytics like they have AI?/post/cangpustransformdataanalytic
From Merge Sort to Silicon: Why We Had to Rethink Computer Science/post/from-merge-sort-to-silicon-why-we-had-to-rethink-computer-science
The page examines designing a domain-specific processor for analytics by building silicon rather than optimizing algorithms for CPUs.
How to collect Apache Spark logs for Speedata Workload Analyzer/post/workload-analyzer-collecting-spark-logs
Workload Analyzer - Collecting Spark logs

Press

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News/news
The Speedata APU achieves high throughput by mapping processing into its hardware pipeline, enabling parallel row processing across hundreds of steps.

Careers & Hiring

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Algorithm Engineer/careers/algorithm-engineer
Careers/careers-1
Data Infrastructure Engineer/careers/data-infrastructure-engineer
Lead SoC Architect/careers/lead-soc-architect

Team

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Dan Eaton/company-team/dan-eaton
Dan is Chief Revenue Officer at Speedata, overseeing go-to-market strategy, revenue growth, and partnerships. He previously drove sales at TigerGraph and expanded the datacenter market at Xilinx.
Dror Trieman/company-team/dror-trieman
Dror leads Project Management at Speedata, overseeing execution across the broader organization, with a focus on accelerating delivery and cross-team alignment.
Gal Barnea/company-team/gal-barnea
Gal leads software engineering at Speedata, with over 20 years of experience in data and analytics, specializing in large-scale systems for major companies.
Liraz Blumenkrantz Menchell/company-team/liraz-blumenkrantz-menchell
Liraz is Chief Administrative Officer at Speedata, managing business, human resources, and operational functions. She previously coordinated programs at Technion and worked in electrical engineering.

About

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Company/company
Speedata introduces the first purpose-built Analytics Processing Unit (APU) for accelerating database analytics and AI workloads, combining hardware and software into a unified platform.

Homepage

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SPEEDATA-Analytics at the Speed of Silicon Accelerate Apache Spark by 100x - right at the hardware layer, with zero code changes

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Privacy Policy/privacy-policy