LanceDB

Lance Format

Open-source columnar storage format optimized for multimodal AI data - zero-copy reads, automatic versioning, fast random access, and Arrow interop. Powers the LanceDB OSS and Enterprise products and integrates with DuckDB, Pandas, Polars, Ray, Apache Spark, and Hugging Face.

Lance Format is one of 6 APIs that LanceDB publishes on the APIs.io network.

Tagged areas include File Format, Columnar, Arrow, and Open Source. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://lance.org

Other Resources

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Repository
https://github.com/lancedb/lance

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: lancedb:lance-format
name: Lance Format
description: Open-source columnar storage format optimized for multimodal AI data - zero-copy reads, automatic
  versioning, fast random access, and Arrow interop. Powers the LanceDB OSS and Enterprise products and
  integrates with DuckDB, Pandas, Polars, Ray, Apache Spark, and Hugging Face.
humanURL: https://lance.org
baseURL: https://github.com/lancedb/lance
tags:
- File Format
- Columnar
- Arrow
- Open Source
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://lance.org
- type: Repository
  url: https://github.com/lancedb/lance