lance-format / 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..
Why this job: works in the areas we cover, but does not say which job it does
What it does
Lance is an open lakehouse format for multimodal AI. It contains a file format, table format, and catalog spec that allows you to build a complete lakehouse on top of object storage to power your AI workflows. Lance is perfect for:
Get started
pip install pylance- Maintenance
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- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
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- No release files
- Latest version
- v14.0.2
- Released 14 days ago
- Built with
- Rust
- 83% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 32
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 75% closed
- 798 still open
- Pull requests
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- Releases
- 689
- 30+ in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Rust 83%
- Python 6%
- HTML 5%
- Java 4%
Topics
- machine-learning
- computer-vision
- data-format
- deep-learning
- python
- apache-arrow
- duckdb
- mlops
- data-analysis
- data-analytics
- data-science
- dataops
Project record
- JobOther AI tools
- StatusListed
- Commits6,288
- Forks927
- Watching49
- Stars in 28 days+125
- CreatedJul 7, 2022
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 12, 2026