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by lance-format · GitHub

Open Lakehouse Format for Multimodal AI. Convert from Parquet in 2 lines of code for 100x faster random access, vector index, and data versioning. Compatible with Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, Pyarrow, and PyTorch with more integrations coming..

# apache-arrow# computer-vision# data-analysis# data-analytics
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Open Lakehouse Format for Multimodal AI. Convert from Parquet in 2 lines of code for 100x faster random access, vector index, and data versioning. Compatible with Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, Pyarrow, and PyTorch with more integrations coming..

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What is lance?

Open Lakehouse Format for Multimodal AI. Convert from Parquet in 2 lines of code for 100x faster random access, vector index, and data versioning. Compatible with Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, Pyarrow, and PyTorch with more integrations coming..

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lance is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

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Yes. lance is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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