LanceDB

Developer-friendly, embedded retrieval engine for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

LanceDB is designed for fast, scalable, and production-ready vector search. It is built on top of the Lance columnar format. You can store, index, and search over petabytes of multimodal data and vectors with ease. LanceDB is a central location where developers can build, train and analyze their AI workloads.

Key Features

  • Fast Vector Search: Search billions of vectors in milliseconds with state-of-the-art indexing
  • Comprehensive Search: Support for vector similarity search, full-text search and SQL
  • Multimodal Support: Store, query and filter vectors, metadata and multimodal data (text, images, videos, point clouds, and more)
  • Advanced Features: Zero-copy, automatic versioning, manage versions of your data without needing extra infrastructure. GPU support in building vector index

Products

  • Open Source & Local: 100% open source, runs locally or in your cloud. No vendor lock-in
  • Cloud and Enterprise: Production-scale vector search with no servers to manage. Complete data sovereignty and security

Ecosystem

  • Columnar Storage: Built on the Lance columnar format for efficient storage and analytics
  • Seamless Integration: Python, Node.js, Rust, and REST APIs for easy integration. Native Python and Javascript/Typescript support
  • Rich Ecosystem: Integrations with LangChain 🦜️🔗, LlamaIndex 🦙, Apache-Arrow, Pandas, Polars, DuckDB and more on the way

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LanceDB
Resource Info
Author LanceDB
Added Date 2025-07-29
Type
Tool
Tags
RAG Data OSS