+1 on this, Thanks for proposing this.
Looking forward to it.

Regards,
Piyush Mudgal

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 7:28 PM Radu Gheorghe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Airflow Community,
>
> I would like to propose a new provider for Vespa.ai. There's a PR for
> this here: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/63988
>
> Motivation: We'd like to make it easy for Vespa users to use Airflow
> to write data and run queries (potentially other tasks in the future).
> And vice versa: for Airflow users to use Vespa for retrieval.
>
> Background: Vespa.ai is an open-source retrieval engine. Somewhat
> similar to search engines like Elasticsearch or vector DBs like
> Qdrant. Vespa is used for E-commerce or real-time personalization
> (e.g., Spotify, Yahoo!, Vinted), web-scale RAG (e.g., Perplexity), and
> other use-cases needing flexible ranking at scale. Users typically
> combine signals like vector or lexical similarity, recency, etc., via
> custom ranking logic or models (GBDT, ONNX). They normally have
> complex data pipelines, which is where Airflow comes in: many are
> already Airflow users or should be :)
>
> It's in our interest for Airflow users to have a good experience
> (e.g., reliable, secure), so we're committed to maintaining this
> provider. This brings us to maintenance (AIP-95). We have two
> stewards:
>
> Radu Gheorghe (github: radu-gheorghe) - me
> Thomas Hjelde Thoresen (thomasht86) - maintainer of pyvespa (on which
> the provider is based)
>
> While Jarek Potiuk agreed to be our Committer Sponsor. Thanks a lot
> for your guidance in this whole process, Jarek!
>
> Looking forward to your feedback.
>
> Best regards,
> Radu Gheorghe
>
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