Theseus: The SQL Engine for AI Workloads

GPU-accelerated. Distributed. AI-native.

Orchestrate your AI pipelines with blazing fast SQL.

python
1# Import required libraries
2from theseus.cluster import GatewayWorkerCluster
3import ibis
4
5# Initialize a Theseus cluster with 1 worker
6tc = GatewayWorkerCluster(n_workers=1).__enter__()
7
8# Connect to Theseus using Ibis and the cluster's location
9con = ibis.theseus.connect(tc._location)
10
11# Read a Parquet file into Theseus
12con.read_parquet('example.parquet', table_name='example')
13
14# Execute a SQL query and convert results to pandas DataFrame
15con.sql('select * from example limit 10').to_pandas()

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GPU Accelerated SQL is Fast

(lower is faster, to the left is cheaper)

By rethinking query execution for GPUs, Theseus parallelizes complex queries and outperforms leading engines, delivering results in seconds.

How it works

100x

Cheaper

10x

Faster

100x

Fewer Nodes

GenAI Meets SQL

Process data and drive LLM workflows on the same GPU. Theseus adds GPU‑powered UDFs to SQL, enabling full pipelines, from embedding and vector search to RAG in Dataframes and SQL.

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SQL RAG LLM Diagram

Your Data. Your Format. Your Tables.

Theseus provides fast, in-place queries for data lakes, lakehouses, and warehouses, and supports Apache Iceberg and standard file formats.

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Theseus Control Plane

Powered by a Kubernetes-native control plane, Theseus deploys across public and private clouds using existing authentication and air-gapped support for maximum security and compliance.

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Control Plane Architecture

Theseus Query Profiling

Built for heterogeneous, accelerator-native environments, Theseus Query Profiler captures structured execution DAGs at runtime, enabling real-time analysis of query behavior at CPU, GPU, and I/O layers with minimal system impact.

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Query Profiler Architecture

Conda Install

Run locally. Conda install Theseus and start querying your data immediately.

Setup time: ~5 minutes
conda install --override-channels \
  -c voltrondata-nightly -c rapidsai -c conda-forge \
  theseus-dev quenta cuda-version-12.8 python=3.10

Theseus Test Drive

Evaluate performance on larger datasets using our cloud-based testing environment.

Setup time: ~1 minute

Enterprise Edition

Deploy Theseus in production with enterprise scale, white-glove support, and custom deployment options.

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