Highlights

💾 Announcing Lance SDK v1.0.0

Lance now backs production workloads across multiple organizations. With 1.0.0, the Lance SDK has reached a level of stability and has formally adopted semantic versioning and a community-driven release process.

🗓️ Lance Community Sync: Thur 1/15 @ 9am PT

We'll be having our first Lance Community Sync next Thursday 1/15 at 9am PT. Everyone can join and feel free to suggest topics for discussion.

Subscribe to the Lance Format mailing list to receive the meeting invite, get notified, and find the meeting notes.

🔍 Search Across 41M+ Wikipedia Articles with Wikisearch

Wikisearch is a search engine that stores and searches through 41M+ Wikipedia articles. The demo showcases the combination of LanceDB’s semantic and keyword search features to quickly find relevant information in a very large dataset like Wikipedia.

Watch the Recordings

Highly Scalable AI Search Engine and AI Data Lake with Kubernetes & LanceDB

Lu Qiu & ChanChan Mao (LanceDB)

Building AI/ML Pipelines on Kubernetes

Lu Qiu (LanceDB)

Agents Need More Than Vector Search

Prashanth Rao (LanceDB)

Product Updates

LanceDB Enterprise Features

🐰 Add IVF_RQ, RabitQ Index Support

IVF_PQ RabitQ index offers error-bound quantization and outperforms PQ in recall-efficiency tradeoff – 4x faster indexing time, 12% higher recall, and 22% faster search in most cases.

🗄️ Federated Database

Connect LanceDB Enterprise to any catalog service that already stores Lance tables

Open Source Updates

Lance and LanceDB Releases

Lance 1.0 (release notes)

🌍 GeoArrow-based geospatial types + spatial SQL

🤗 Load datasets directly from HuggingFace (hf://datasets/...)

🧱 Arrow-native Blob v2 storage + JSON SQL functions

⚡ Major performance gains: 19x faster filtered scans, faster HNSW & FTS, dynamic IVF pruning

☁️ Cloud-native namespaces with credential vending and REST support

LanceDB 0.23 (release notes)

📉 New IvfSq scalar-quantized IVF index + simpler HNSW aliases

🧵 Stable row IDs via storage_options + automatic IVF partitioning

🌐 Server-side namespace queries, async Python namespaces, remote head()

Lance Namespace 0.4 (release notes)

🔐 Credential vending with table metadata

🪪 Identity on all requests for audit & access control

A huge thank you to contributors from Bytedance, OpenAI, Ants Group, Uber, Datastrato, Xiaomi, and more. for their contributions!

ChanChan Mao

DevRel @ LanceDB

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