lance

lance

Alternative to Databricks

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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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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Free alternative to Databricks

lance is a free, open-source alternative to Databricks. Here's why:

  • ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ Open Lakehouse Format
  • ๐Ÿ”„ Easy Parquet Conversion
  • โšก๏ธ Ultra-fast Data Access
  • ๐Ÿง  Smart Vector Indexing
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Broad Tool Integration
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