Our October newsletter highlights Semantic.Art, Lance File 2.1, RaBitQ Quantization, upcoming events, and latest product and community updates.

🎨 Semantic.Art, 💾 Stable Lance 2.1, 🎥 Ray+LanceDB powers Netflix

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🎨 Semantic.Art

Meet semantic.art , a multi-feature multi-index retrieval art discovery engine that lets you search with a feeling or intent rather than matching keywords.

 

Powered by LanceDB . The core of the system involves dynamically understanding and inspecting a query’s intent. It then chooses the best search path on the fly, blending vector, FTS, hybrid search, filtering, and custom rerankers.

SemanticDotArt: Rethinking art discovery with LanceDB

💾 Lance File 2.1 Is Now Stable

Big news from the LanceDB team — Lance File Format 2.1 is officially stable!

 

This release solves one of the biggest challenges from 2.0: 👉 adding compression without sacrificing random access performance.

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📃 Lance File 2.1 is Now Stable

LanceDB’s 🐰RaBitQ Quantization for Blazing Fast Vector Search ⚡️

A new quantization technique in LanceDB engineering for high-performance search on large-scale, high-dimensional data.

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📃 LanceDB's RaBitQ Quantization for Blazing Fast Vector Search

▶️ Recordings you might’ve missed!

Lance Integration with Apache Iceberg - Latest Progress

📅 Upcoming Events

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Ray Summit 2025 | Wednesday, November 5, 4:00 PM

 

LanceDB and Netflix are joining forces at Ray Summit to do a deep dive on what the Netflix Media Data Lake team is building.

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Look forward to three sessions from the LanceDB team at PyData Seattle!

 

🎤 Data Loading for Data Engineers
Weston Pace, Senior Software Engineer @ LanceDB | Friday, November 7, 10:10 AM

 

🎤 Keynote Session: Never Send a Human to do an Agent’s Retrieval
Chang She, Co-Founder & CEO @ LanceDB | Saturday, November 8, 9:00 AM

 

🎤 Supercharging Multimodal Feature Engineering with Lance and Ray
Jack Ye, Senior Software Engineer @ LanceDB | Saturday, November 8, 11:40 AM

kubecon-2025

Check out our two sessions at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025!

 

🎤 Highly Scalable AI Search Engine and AI Data Lake With Kubernetes and LanceDB
Lu Qiu, Database Engineer & ChanChan Mao, Developer Relations @ LanceDB | Tuesday, November 11, 5:45 PM

 

🎤 Building AI/ML Pipelines on Kubernetes
Lu Qiu (LanceDB), Susan Wu & Ian Chakares (Google), Anant Vyas & Lucy Sweet (Uber) | Thursday, November 13, 11:45 AM

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Open Lakehouse + AI Meetup | Thursday, November 13, 12 - 4 PM

 

Dive into the key capabilities of LanceDB's Multimodal Lakehouse—fast random-access at scale, vector + full-text search, and optimized schema primitives—so you can iterate rapidly without blowing your budget. 

 

Register: https://luma.com/OLMS-1113

📊 LanceDB Enterprise Product News

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🫶 Community Contributions

  • Multi-path support for Lance datasets, thanks to @jaystarshot from Uber.
  • Lance-Ray now supports distributed compaction of Lance table, thanks to @yingjianwu98 from Netflix.
  • Spark Data evolution feature and JSON document support in FTS index , thanks to @fangbo & @wojiaodoubao from Bytedance

A heartfelt thank you to our community contributors of lance and lancedb this past month:

@lyang24 @wojiaodoubao @jaystarshot @yanghua @chunshao90 @ddupg @majin1102 @yingjianwu98 @xloya @ColdL @niebayes @yingjianwu98 @morales-t-netflix @wayneli-vt @steFaiz @zhangyue19921010 @timsaucer @wayneli-vt @chenghao-guo @jtuglu1 @huyuanfeng2018 @valkum @naaa760 @edrogers @tlamarre91

🌟 Open Source Releases Spotlight

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