Launch HN: Quilt (YC W16) – A versioned data portal for S3
We're Aneesh and Kevin of Quilt ( https://open.quiltdata.com/ ). Quilt is a versioned data portal for S3 that makes it easier to share, discover, model, and decide based on data at scale. It consists of a Python client, web catalog, and lambda functions (all open source), plus a suite of backend containers and CloudFormation templates for businesses to run their own stacks. Public data are free. Private stacks are available for a flat monthly licensing fee. Try searching for anything on https://open.quiltdata.com/ and let us know how search works for you. We kind of surprised ourselves with a Google-like experience that returns primary data instead of links to web pages. We've got over 1M Jupyter notebooks, 100M Amazon reviews, and many more public S3 objects on over a dozen topics indexed in ElasticSearch. The best example, so far, of "S3 buc
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We're Aneesh and Kevin of Quilt ( https://open.quiltdata.com/ ). Quilt is a versioned data portal for S3 that makes it easier to share, discover, model, and decide based on data at scale. It consists of a Python client, web catalog, and lambda functions (all o
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- akarve
- Ended
- 2019
- Source
- hackernews