Welcome to GizmoData — the home of GizmoSQL and GizmoEdge
Powering the next generation of data analytics
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At GizmoData, we’re building the future of SQL analytics, from lightning-fast data lake queries in the cloud to distributed compute at the edge.
Here’s what we’ve been up to:
🧠 GizmoSQL — Open Source, Cloud-Ready Analytics
GizmoSQL is an open-source Arrow Flight SQL Server powered by DuckDB, designed to make analytics faster, cheaper, and simpler than ever.
Run complex queries directly against Parquet, Iceberg, or Delta tables.
Connect via ODBC, JDBC, or ADBC — with integrations for dbt, Superset, and Metabase.
Benchmarks show it running 1TB TPC-H in seconds, with cloud costs measured in cents.
Support concurrent users with the powerful DuckDB engine - with ACID compliance, full transaction support, robust security - including token-based authentication, and more!
More customers are choosing GizmoSQL as a powerful alternative to Snowflake and Databricks. It can lower your costs by 90% or more!
Check it out on GitHub → github.com/gizmodata/gizmosql
View more info including benchmarks and more → gizmodata.com/gizmosql
🌍 GizmoEdge — Distributed Analytics Everywhere
GizmoEdge takes the same powerful DuckDB engine — and runs it everywhere as a powerful distributed SQL engine.
From laptops and iPhones to Kubernetes pods and IoT devices, GizmoEdge turns your entire environment into a distributed query engine.
Each device becomes a compute node.
Queries are automatically split and run in parallel.
Perfect for low-latency IoT analytics, privacy-preserving AI, and offline edge data sync.
We ran the 1 Trillion Row Challenge with GizmoEdge - in less than 5 seconds! Watch our video:
Please note: GizmoEdge is still in preview - we are looking for design partners to power their OLAP and/or distributed edge IoT data workloads.
Learn more → gizmodata.com/gizmoedge
🧩 What’s Next
We’re working on:
GizmoSQL Cloud (beta) — a fully managed platform for running SQL over your data lake.
Enhancing GizmoSQL — we are working on adding many new features to GizmoSQL - namely:
Enhanced RBAC - including system, schema, and object level permissions
Bulk data ingestion - enhancing both the GizmoSQL server and the ADBC client to support bulk ingestion
DuckDB extension allowing GizmoSQL and DuckDB users to connect to running GizmoSQL instances - think “database link”.
dbt-GizmoSQL adapter and Metabase driver (already released 🎉).
Benchmarks + case studies showing real-world speed and cost savings.
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If you have questions or would like to talk about enterprise support options for GizmoSQL or licensing GizmoEdge - contact GizmoData at: info@gizmodata.com - or call: 1 (866) GIZMODATA today. We also offer commercial licensing for GizmoSQL with indemnity for those interested in warranty beyond the Apache 2.0 license.
Thanks for being part of the GizmoData journey — this is just the beginning.
– Philip Moore
Founder, GizmoData