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Unlock Conversational Data Interaction: Firebolt MCP Server for Advanced LLM Integration

Supercharge your data workflows by connecting Firebolt to AI tools with the new MCP Server.

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Unlock Conversational Data Interaction: Firebolt MCP Server for Advanced LLM Integration

Supercharge your data workflows by connecting Firebolt to AI tools with the new MCP Server.

Exploring your data lake in Firebolt using just TVFs

Discover how Firebolt implements SQL functions for data exploration.

Unlocking Simplicity and Security: Firebolt’s New LOCATION Object

Discover the new LOCATION object, a foundational improvement to Firebolt’s data access model.

GROUPING SETS as a pure planner rewrite ? Yep - it's possible

Learn how GROUPING SETS work and how Firebolt’s implementation uses smart query planning to execute them efficiently.

Decomposing Firebolt transactions

Explore how Firebolt transaction manager works

Mosha Pasumansky

The Process of Running FireScale Benchmarks

Learn about the methodology behind constructing and running the FireScale benchmarks.

Introducing FireScale - A Benchmark for High Performance and High Concurrency Analytics Workloads

FireScale reveals Firebolt’s 8x-90x price-performance edge & near-linear concurrency scaling for next-gen analytics.

Under the Hood of Firebolt Compute Families

Dive into why Firebolt introduced a new compute family and when you'd want to use it.

Introducing Firebolt Editions and Compute Family Choices

Choose the right edition and compute family to optimize query performance and cost-efficiency with Firebolt.

Robust and efficient geospatial operations using snap rounding (Part III)

We will explore in more detail how Firebolt implements robust operations on geospatial data.

February 20, 2025

Firebolt February Release Roundup: Versions 4.12 to 4.14 -> Faster queries, RBAC upgrades, and geospatial boosts

Recap of the three most recent releases in Firebolt, including changes from versions 4.12, 4.13, and 4.14.

February 14, 2025

Architecture and Internal Representation of the GEOGRAPHY Data Type (Part II)

Discover how Firebolt structures & optimizes GEOGRAPHY data with S2 cells, shape indexes, and pruning for fast queries.

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