Lance Format

Apache 2.0 open lakehouse format for multimodal AI. Columnar Parquet replacement offering 100x faster random access, zero-copy reads, vector indexes, and automatic data versioning. Convertible from Parquet in two lines of code. Maintained by the lance-format community.

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aid: lancedb:lance-format
name: Lance Format
description: Apache 2.0 open lakehouse format for multimodal AI. Columnar Parquet replacement offering
  100x faster random access, zero-copy reads, vector indexes, and automatic data versioning. Convertible
  from Parquet in two lines of code. Maintained by the lance-format community.
humanURL: https://lance.org/
baseURL: https://github.com/lance-format/lance
tags:
- File Format
- Columnar
- Arrow
- Open Source
- Apache 2.0
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://lance.org/
- type: Repository
  url: https://github.com/lance-format/lance
- type: Specification
  url: https://lance.org/format/
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/lance-format/lance/releases