# Lance Format

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/lance-format/  
**Provider:** LanceDB — https://apis.io/providers/lancedb/  
**Base URL:** https://github.com/lance-format/lance  
**Documentation:** https://lance.org/

Lance Format is one of 16 APIs that [LanceDB](https://apis.io/providers/lancedb/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include File Format, Columnar, Arrow, Open-Source, and Apache 2.0. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and release notes.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://lance.org/
- **Repository** — https://github.com/lance-format/lance
- **Specification** — https://lance.org/format/
- **ReleaseNotes** — https://github.com/lance-format/lance/releases

## Other LanceDB APIs (12)

- [LanceDB Enterprise](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/enterprise/)
- [LanceDB Python SDK](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/python-sdk/)
- [LanceDB TypeScript SDK](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/typescript-sdk/)
- [LanceDB Rust SDK](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/rust-sdk/)
- [LanceDB Go SDK](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/go-sdk/)
- [LanceDB C Bindings](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/c-sdk/)
- [LanceDB MCP Server](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/mcp-server/)
- [LanceDB Data API](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/lancedb-data-api/)
- [LanceDB Index API](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/lancedb-index-api/)
- [LanceDB MaterializedView API](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/lancedb-materializedview-api/)
- [LanceDB Metadata API](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/lancedb-metadata-api/)
- [LanceDB Namespace API](https://apis.io/apis/lancedb/lancedb-namespace-api/)

## Tags

File Format, Columnar, Arrow, Open-Source, Apache 2.0

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