How We Added Geospatial Support To Lance With No New Code
How Lance's Arrow-native architecture enables first-class geospatial support through extension types, GeoDataFusion integration, and R-Tree indexing.
How Lance's Arrow-native architecture enables first-class geospatial support through extension types, GeoDataFusion integration, and R-Tree indexing.
Kicking off 2026 with Lance-native SQL retrieval via DuckDB, Uber-scale multi-bucket storage, 1.5M IOPS benchmarks, and continued OSS momentum across the Lance ecosystem.
Learn how LanceDB benchmarks storage and how we achieved one million disk reads per second.
A tour of Lance's file path design, and how Lance’s new multi-base layout enables multi-location datasets (such as Uber’s multi-bucket setup) with minimal metadata rewrites.
Store a multimodal dataset of recipes in LanceDB, a multimodal lakehouse for AI, and keep it fresh with CocoIndex, a declarative data transformation framework for AI with incremental processing capabilities.
Use the Lance format as your lakehouse layer for retrieval, RAG and more, with the native Lance extension for DuckDB
Our December newsletter highlights Lance SDK v1.0.0, our upcoming Lance community sync, Wikisearch demo, and the latest product and community updates.
A practical definition of multimodal complexity, and how LanceDB’s Multimodal Lakehouse is built to address these challenges.
We’re excited to announce that the core Rust SDK and the Python and Java binding SDKs are graduating to version 1.0.0, alongside a new, community-driven release strategy.
Our November newsletter highlights Lance community governance, a deep dive on Lance and Iceberg, a demo of Netflix's multimodal search, previous talk recordings, and the latest product and community updates.