AI is changing how work gets done. But for many data leaders, it’s also creating a new challenge: managing the cloud bill.
As more people (and more AI agents) query data, cloud data warehouse (CDW) spend can spike fast. Costs become harder to predict, and teams end up making tradeoffs—scaling AI insights or staying within budget.
That tension creates a real bottleneck on the path to becoming AI-ready. When every question and AI-generated insight has a compute price tag, self-service gets rationed, dashboards stay static, and curiosity gets expensive.
That’s why we’re excited to announce the launch of SpotCache, now generally available to all ThoughtSpot customers.
SpotCache is ThoughtSpot’s new caching capability that helps data teams control CDW costs while scaling AI-driven and agentic analytics to every user. With the choice of cached versus live data, you can power the right workloads with optimized data snapshots, while still keeping data fresh when you need it. The result: agentic analytics in seconds, predictable spend, and a stronger data foundation for AI.
Smart cost management and uncompromised flexibility
With SpotCache, you can choose the right connection type for each use case in the same ThoughtSpot experience:
Use cached data for repetitive, high-concurrency, or interval-based reporting.
Use live data for operational views that need to reflect what’s happening right now.
You can even mix both in the same Liveboard. For example, put a quarterly sales target powered by cached data next to a live operational view of your current revenue. Your teams get the insights they expect, and you get a more predictable handle on compute spend.
This is the practical lever data leaders have been asking for: reduce unnecessary warehouse compute without compromising analytical precision.
Built for AI-ready data at scale
SpotCache is designed for modern analytics and agentic experiences, where more users and more automated workflows need consistent, governed answers. With SpotCache, you can:
Enable unlimited queries with predictable costs:
Reduce redundant CDW compute for workloads that don’t require real-time data. As usage grows, you’re not forced into a proportional compute increase just to keep performance and interactivity high.
Create a unified insight layer across sources:
Model and mash up data from multiple systems, including CDWs like Snowflake and Databricks, plus files like Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, into a consistent cached dataset. This supports the cross-functional analysis teams need to understand the business end-to-end.
Control refresh schedules with confidence:
Set refresh cadence based on how the business runs. You decide when snapshots update, so analysis stays reliable and aligned with production realities.
A seamless experience for business users
SpotCache is powerful because it works behind the scenes.
Whether a user is exploring cached data or querying live, the ThoughtSpot experience stays consistent. Business teams don’t need to think about the underlying connection type. They just get decision-ready insights from ThoughtSpot’s natural language search and agents like Spotter, without any disruption in the workflows they already use.
That seamlessness is made possible by ThoughtSpot’s:
Agentic Semantic Layer, which preserves business logic across all data sources.
Native integration with Analyst Studio, so analysts can build and manage snapshots as part of their analytics workflow (without separate ETL pipelines for every use case)
Optimized query processing, designed to keep performance high even with very large or complex datasets
Ground your AI in business reality
SpotCache isn’t only about cost control. It’s about making AI more dependable.
AI agents are only as useful as the data they’re grounded in. SpotCache gives you a governed space to mash up and standardize data across apps, files, CDWs, and other data sources, while keeping your data anchored to your organization’s definitions and logic.
That means the insights your AI generates are built on a consistent foundation of facts, whether the underlying data is live or a snapshot.
SpotCache is available today
SpotCache is generally available now for all ThoughtSpot Analytics and ThoughtSpot Embedded customers.
The value of SpotCache is simple: It delivers trusted AI insights with predictable costs across workloads—from quarterly QBR Liveboards to exploration across billions of rows.
Ready to scale AI-ready data across the organization without cloud-spend surprises? Request a demo to see SpotCache in action.
