Bodo Blog

The latest news, insights, product release information, guides, and everything in between from the Bodo team.

January 27, 2025

Bodo is Going Open Source – HPC Meets Python for data and AI

When we started Bodo, we had a clear mission: to make high-performance computing (HPC) as simple as possible. Along the way, we tackled some of the most challenging problems in parallel computing—achieving unprecedented performance and efficiency while maintaining ease of use. Today, we are proud to take that mission to the next level: The Bodo compute engine is now open source, bringing HPC to all data and AI workloads.

January 20, 2025

Python data processing engine comparison with NYC Taxi trips (Bodo vs. Spark, Dask, Ray)

We compared popular Python data processing engines using the NYC Taxi dataset to evaluate performance and scalability. The results revealed significant differences, highlighting how the right engine can optimize both speed and cost for data-intensive workloads.

February 13, 2024

2023 Review and Looking Ahead to 2024

2023 was a pivotal year for Bodo’s mission to bring High Performance Computing levels of efficiency, performance, and scalability to data workloads. From building a vectorized SQL engine to a new cloud service architecture, there are several milestones to celebrate. Let’s review some of the highlights of 2023 and look ahead to possibilities in 2024.

March 22, 2023

Moving Seamlessly from Development Environments to Production Realities

Bodo’s UI makes deploying, managing, and monitoring jobs running on notebooks or in production simple—enabling you to connect with terabytes of data and use job scheduling to turn your interactive notebooks into production jobs.

November 23, 2022

2022 at Bodo: A Year in Review

Bodo has accomplished so much this year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of our highlights as 2022 comes to a close.

August 4, 2022

Bodo & Iceberg: The Simple and Fast Open Data Warehouse of the Future

Bodo on Iceberg simplifies data management for users substantially by supporting native Python (in addition to SQL). The connector eliminates the need for an involved setup process and parameter tuning to make sure data engineers and data scientists are solving business problems instead of fighting data infrastructure.

July 7, 2022

Creating ETL Pipelines With Bodo

In this post, we look at some of the considerations you may want to keep in mind when building an ETL pipeline similar to the data collection and exploration as seen...

June 1, 2022

Bodo Now Available on Saturn Cloud

Over the last few months, Bodo and SaturnCloud have worked together to provide a joint solution with Bodo software running within Saturn Cloud resources. Data scientists can now access...

May 25, 2022

Natively Integrated Python and SQL with Extreme Performance and Scale: Introducing BodoSQL

Python is the language of choice for AI and machine learning (ML), but SQL has been used...

May 17, 2022

Machine Learning Series: NYC Yellow Taxi Tips Prediction

Bodo allows machine learning practitioners to rapidly explore data and build complex pipelines. Using Bodo, developers can seamlessly scale their codes from using their own laptop to using Bodo's platform. In this series, we will...

May 17, 2022

Machine Learning Series: Credit Card Fraud Detection

In this post, we will run the code using Bodo. It means that the data will be distributed in chunks across processes. Bodo's documentation provides more information about the parallel execution model. If you want to run the example using Pandas only (without Bodo), simply...

May 9, 2022

Bodo’s Approach to Open Platforms and Open Source

Bodo’s mission is to enable easy access to high-performance computing; to build a platform that makes working with petabyte-scale datasets as fast and straightforward as running pandas on small datasets using a laptop. We believe...