Link parkin‘: Lance is the file format and LanceDB is the query engine on top:
Lance is a columnar data format that is easy and fast to version, query and train on. It’s designed to be used with images, videos, 3D point clouds, audio and of course tabular data. It supports any POSIX file systems, and cloud storage like AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage.
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LanceDB is an open-source vector database for AI that’s designed to store, manage, query and retrieve embeddings on large-scale multi-modal data. The core of LanceDB is written in Rust 🦀 and is built on top of Lance, an open-source columnar data format designed for performant ML workloads and fast random access.
Both the database and the underlying data format are designed from the ground up to be easy-to-use, scalable and cost-effective.
Been popping up in my feeds recently.