Model components / Dataset Processing Tools

smallpond

Lightweight distributed data-processing framework built on DuckDB and DeepSeek's 3FS, aimed at PB-scale preprocessing.

DeepSeek smallpond, effectively dormant with no repository commits since March 2025. A rare data-infrastructure release from a lab that publishes little else about its data, with a launch-driven star count and thin sustained use. Verified 2026-08-13 via the GitHub README and the LICENSE body.

Openness

5 high confidence

5.0

license: MIT(OSI)
source: public(deepseek-ai/smallpond)
governance: DeepSeek
core-gated: ungated

Fully OSI-licensed (MIT), full source public.

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-13
MIT License text (Copyright 2025 DeepSeek)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-13
README documents the whole pipeline building and installing from the published repo; no paid tier, enterprise edition or license key appears anywhere in it, so nothing is withheld from the source

Adoption

1 high confidence

1.0

244 downloads in the trailing 30 days for smallpond, from the pypistats API. Bands at level 1 (<10K) on the software and model adoption scale. A large star count from the DeepSeek open-infra launch with little sustained use, and no repo commit since March 2025.

https://pypistats.org/api/packages/smallpond/recent recorded 2026-08-13
244 downloads in the trailing 30 days for smallpond

Capability

3 medium confidence

3.0

Promising design, but not proven on downstream corpora and dormant.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-13
README documents DuckDB- and 3FS-backed distributed processing scaling to PB, with a GraySort result; no commit to the repo since March 2025

Verified 2026-08-13