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+# Welcome to LanceDB's Documentation
+
+LanceDB is an open-source database for vector-search built with persistent storage, which greatly simplifies retrevial, filtering and management of embeddings.
+
+The key features of LanceDB include:
+
+* Production-scale vector search with no servers to manage.
+
+* Combine attribute-based information with vectors and store them as a single source-of-truth.
+
+* Zero-copy, automatic versioning, manage versions of your data without needing extra infrastructure.
+
+* Ecosystem integrations: Apache-Arrow, Pandas, Polars, DuckDB and more on the way.
+
+LanceDB's core is written in Rust 🦀 and is built using Lance, an open-source columnar format designed for performant ML workloads.
+
+## Documentation Quick Links
+
+* `Quick start` - search and filter a hello world vector dataset with LanceDB using the Python SDK.
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