LanceDB

LanceDB

Engineering
The Case for Random Access I/O

The Case for Random Access I/O

One of the reasons we started the Lance file format and have been investigating new encodings is because we wanted a format with better support for random access.

Engineering
Benchmarking Cohere Rerankers with LanceDB

Benchmarking Cohere Rerankers with LanceDB

Improve retrieval quality by reranking LanceDB results with Cohere and ColBERT. You’ll plug rerankers into vector, FTS, and hybrid search and compare accuracy on real datasets.

Community
Convert Any Image Dataset to Lance

Convert Any Image Dataset to Lance

In our article, we explored the remarkable capabilities of the Lance format, a modern, columnar data storage solution designed to revolutionize the way we work with large image datasets in machine learning.