LanceDB

aid: lancedb
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lancedb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: LanceDB
kind: company
description: >-
  LanceDB is an open-source, developer-friendly, embedded multimodal vector
  database built on the Lance columnar storage format. It supports vector,
  full-text, hybrid, and SQL search across billions of vectors and multimodal
  data (text, images, video, point clouds). LanceDB ships as an embedded OSS
  library with Python, TypeScript / JavaScript, and Rust SDKs, and is also
  offered as LanceDB Enterprise - a distributed and managed multimodal lakehouse
  - with integrations into Apache Arrow, Pandas, Polars, DuckDB, Ray, Apache
  Spark, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Hugging Face.
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Vector Database
  - Multimodal
  - Lance Format
  - RAG
  - Open Source
  - Lakehouse
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: lancedb:oss
    name: LanceDB OSS Library
    description: >-
      Open-source, embedded, serverless multimodal vector database. Provides
      table create / drop / list, insert / upsert / delete, vector / full-text /
      hybrid / SQL search, automatic versioning, and pluggable embedding
      functions. Apache-2.0 licensed.
    humanURL: https://docs.lancedb.com/
    baseURL: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
    tags:
      - Open Source
      - Embedded
      - Vector Database
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.lancedb.com/
      - type: Repository
        url: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
      - type: Quickstart
        url: https://docs.lancedb.com/quickstart
  - aid: lancedb:enterprise
    name: LanceDB Enterprise
    description: >-
      Distributed, managed multimodal lakehouse built on the Lance format,
      offering curation, deduplication, feature engineering with Python UDFs,
      unified vector / full-text / hybrid search, and direct training from
      curated tables. Sold to enterprise customers via [email protected].
    humanURL: https://lancedb.com/
    baseURL: https://lancedb.com/
    tags:
      - Enterprise
      - Managed
      - Lakehouse
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.lancedb.com/
      - type: Sales
        url: https://lancedb.com/contact
  - 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
  - aid: lancedb:python-sdk
    name: LanceDB Python SDK
    description: >-
      Primary client library for LanceDB OSS and Enterprise, with first-class
      support for Arrow, Pandas, and Polars data frames and pluggable embedding
      functions.
    humanURL: https://docs.lancedb.com/
    baseURL: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
    tags:
      - SDK
      - Python
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.lancedb.com/
      - type: Repository
        url: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
  - aid: lancedb:typescript-sdk
    name: LanceDB TypeScript SDK
    description: >-
      Node.js / TypeScript client library for LanceDB OSS and Enterprise.
    humanURL: https://docs.lancedb.com/
    baseURL: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
    tags:
      - SDK
      - TypeScript
      - JavaScript
      - Node.js
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.lancedb.com/
      - type: Repository
        url: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
  - aid: lancedb:rust-sdk
    name: LanceDB Rust SDK
    description: >-
      Native Rust client library; the LanceDB core and storage layer are written
      in Rust.
    humanURL: https://docs.lancedb.com/
    baseURL: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
    tags:
      - SDK
      - Rust
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.lancedb.com/
      - type: Repository
        url: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://lancedb.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lancedb.com/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/lancedb
  - type: Discord
    url: https://discord.com/invite/G5DcmnZWKB
  - type: Trust
    url: https://trust.lancedb.com/
  - type: Support
    url: mailto:[email protected]
integrations:
  - name: Apache Arrow
  - name: Apache Spark
  - name: DuckDB
  - name: Pandas
  - name: Polars
  - name: Ray
  - name: Hugging Face
  - name: LangChain
  - name: LlamaIndex
  - name: Databricks
  - name: Amazon Web Services
  - name: NVIDIA
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]