diff --git a/docs/web-tests/rs/Cargo.lock b/docs/web-tests/rs/Cargo.lock
index 0dff8ddfc..84bc7e1c1 100644
--- a/docs/web-tests/rs/Cargo.lock
+++ b/docs/web-tests/rs/Cargo.lock
@@ -452,6 +452,61 @@ version = "1.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c08606f8c3cbf4ce6ec8e28fb0014a2c086708fe954eaa885384a6165172e7e8"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "axum"
+version = "0.7.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "edca88bc138befd0323b20752846e6587272d3b03b0343c8ea28a6f819e6e71f"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "axum-core",
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-util",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "http-body-util",
+ "hyper",
+ "hyper-util",
+ "itoa",
+ "matchit",
+ "memchr",
+ "mime",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "rustversion",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "serde_path_to_error",
+ "serde_urlencoded",
+ "sync_wrapper",
+ "tokio",
+ "tower",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "axum-core"
+version = "0.4.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "09f2bd6146b97ae3359fa0cc6d6b376d9539582c7b4220f041a33ec24c226199"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-util",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "http-body-util",
+ "mime",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "rustversion",
+ "sync_wrapper",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "backtrace"
 version = "0.3.76"
@@ -836,6 +891,16 @@ version = "0.3.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7c74b8349d32d297c9134b8c88677813a227df8f779daa29bfc29c183fe3dca6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "core-foundation"
+version = "0.9.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "91e195e091a93c46f7102ec7818a2aa394e1e1771c3ab4825963fa03e45afb8f"
+dependencies = [
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "core-foundation"
 version = "0.10.1"
@@ -1761,26 +1826,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "uuid",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "deepsize"
-version = "0.2.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1cdb987ec36f6bf7bfbea3f928b75590b736fc42af8e54d97592481351b2b96c"
-dependencies = [
- "deepsize_derive",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "deepsize_derive"
-version = "0.1.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "990101d41f3bc8c1a45641024377ee284ecc338e5ecf3ea0f0e236d897c72796"
-dependencies = [
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "syn 1.0.109",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "deranged"
 version = "0.5.5"
@@ -2408,6 +2453,12 @@ version = "1.10.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6dbf3de79e51f3d586ab4cb9d5c3e2c14aa28ed23d180cf89b4df0454a69cc87"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "httpdate"
+version = "1.0.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "df3b46402a9d5adb4c86a0cf463f42e19994e3ee891101b1841f30a545cb49a9"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "humantime"
 version = "2.3.0"
@@ -2428,6 +2479,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "http",
  "http-body",
  "httparse",
+ "httpdate",
  "itoa",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "pin-utils",
@@ -2472,9 +2524,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "socket2",
+ "system-configuration",
  "tokio",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
+ "windows-registry",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2930,15 +2984,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "half",
  "humantime",
  "itertools 0.13.0",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
+ "lance-core",
  "lance-datafusion",
  "lance-encoding",
  "lance-file",
  "lance-index",
  "lance-io",
  "lance-linalg",
- "lance-namespace 8.0.0",
+ "lance-namespace",
  "lance-select",
  "lance-table",
  "lance-tokenizer",
@@ -2966,28 +3020,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "uuid",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "lance-arrow"
-version = "7.0.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "253f4a0a70580c985b91e65e9ca6cad644825a4078de28d8efbacf3ffbd7ecdc"
-dependencies = [
- "arrow-array",
- "arrow-buffer",
- "arrow-data",
- "arrow-ipc",
- "arrow-ord",
- "arrow-schema",
- "arrow-select",
- "bytes",
- "futures",
- "getrandom 0.2.16",
- "half",
- "jsonb",
- "num-traits",
- "rand 0.9.2",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-arrow"
 version = "8.0.0"
@@ -3048,41 +3080,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "seq-macro",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "lance-core"
-version = "7.0.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "13f84020da5a484e2f07dd1796e09785ed7cd889857ebc4cb77e32ef214ee594"
-dependencies = [
- "arrow-array",
- "arrow-buffer",
- "arrow-schema",
- "async-trait",
- "byteorder",
- "bytes",
- "deepsize",
- "futures",
- "itertools 0.13.0",
- "lance-arrow 7.0.0",
- "libc",
- "log",
- "moka",
- "num_cpus",
- "object_store",
- "pin-project",
- "prost",
- "rand 0.9.2",
- "roaring",
- "serde_json",
- "snafu 0.9.1",
- "tempfile",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
- "tracing",
- "url",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-core"
 version = "8.0.0"
@@ -3100,7 +3097,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "datafusion-sql",
  "futures",
  "itertools 0.13.0",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
  "lance-derive",
  "libc",
  "libm",
@@ -3144,8 +3141,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "datafusion-physical-expr",
  "futures",
  "jsonb",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
+ "lance-core",
  "lance-datagen",
  "log",
  "pin-project",
@@ -3206,9 +3203,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "hex",
  "hyperloglogplus",
  "itertools 0.13.0",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
  "lance-bitpacking",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
+ "lance-core",
  "log",
  "lz4",
  "num-traits",
@@ -3240,8 +3237,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "datafusion-common",
  "futures",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
+ "lance-core",
  "lance-encoding",
  "lance-io",
  "log",
@@ -3286,9 +3283,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "itertools 0.13.0",
  "jieba-rs",
  "jsonb",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
  "lance-arrow-stats",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
+ "lance-core",
  "lance-datafusion",
  "lance-datagen",
  "lance-encoding",
@@ -3343,9 +3340,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "http",
  "io-uring",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
- "lance-namespace 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
+ "lance-core",
+ "lance-namespace",
  "log",
  "moka",
  "object_store",
@@ -3371,26 +3368,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "arrow-schema",
  "cc",
  "half",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
+ "lance-core",
  "num-traits",
  "rand 0.9.2",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "lance-namespace"
-version = "7.0.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "014e8332ca0615506342e0d3af608639864b68396973be14239f09c9f21f1fc2"
-dependencies = [
- "arrow",
- "async-trait",
- "bytes",
- "lance-core 7.0.0",
- "lance-namespace-reqwest-client 0.7.7",
- "snafu 0.9.1",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-namespace"
 version = "8.0.0"
@@ -3400,8 +3383,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "arrow",
  "async-trait",
  "bytes",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
- "lance-namespace-reqwest-client 0.8.6",
+ "lance-core",
+ "lance-namespace-reqwest-client",
  "snafu 0.9.1",
 ]
 
@@ -3415,42 +3398,33 @@ dependencies = [
  "arrow-ipc",
  "arrow-schema",
  "async-trait",
+ "axum",
  "bytes",
  "datafusion-common",
  "datafusion-physical-plan",
  "futures",
  "lance",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
+ "lance-core",
  "lance-index",
  "lance-io",
  "lance-linalg",
- "lance-namespace 8.0.0",
+ "lance-namespace",
  "lance-table",
  "log",
  "object_store",
  "rand 0.9.2",
+ "reqwest",
  "roaring",
+ "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "time",
  "tokio",
+ "tower",
+ "tower-http 0.5.2",
  "url",
  "uuid",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "lance-namespace-reqwest-client"
-version = "0.7.7"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6369eee4682fb11edf538388b43c61ce288b8302fe89bb40944d7daa7faaae99"
-dependencies = [
- "reqwest",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
- "serde_repr",
- "serde_with",
- "url",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "lance-namespace-reqwest-client"
 version = "0.8.6"
@@ -3477,7 +3451,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
  "bytes",
  "itertools 0.13.0",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
+ "lance-core",
  "roaring",
  "tracing",
 ]
@@ -3498,8 +3472,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "chrono",
  "futures",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
+ "lance-core",
  "lance-file",
  "lance-io",
  "lance-select",
@@ -3530,7 +3504,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-schema",
  "criterion",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
  "num-traits",
  "pprof",
  "rand 0.9.2",
@@ -3581,9 +3555,10 @@ dependencies = [
  "datafusion-sql",
  "futures",
  "half",
+ "http",
  "lance",
- "lance-arrow 8.0.0",
- "lance-core 8.0.0",
+ "lance-arrow",
+ "lance-core",
  "lance-datafusion",
  "lance-datagen",
  "lance-encoding",
@@ -3591,7 +3566,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "lance-index",
  "lance-io",
  "lance-linalg",
- "lance-namespace 8.0.0",
+ "lance-namespace",
  "lance-namespace-impls",
  "lance-table",
  "lance-testing",
@@ -3605,6 +3580,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "polars-arrow",
  "rand 0.9.2",
  "regex",
+ "reqwest",
  "semver",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
@@ -3613,6 +3589,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
  "tokio",
  "url",
+ "urlencoding",
  "uuid",
 ]
 
@@ -3859,6 +3836,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex-automata",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "matchit"
+version = "0.7.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0e7465ac9959cc2b1404e8e2367b43684a6d13790fe23056cc8c6c5a6b7bcb94"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "matrixmultiply"
 version = "0.3.10"
@@ -5383,7 +5366,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-rustls",
  "tokio-util",
  "tower",
- "tower-http",
+ "tower-http 0.6.8",
  "tower-service",
  "url",
  "wasm-bindgen",
@@ -5464,7 +5447,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "arrow-schema",
  "futures",
  "futures-util",
- "lance-namespace 7.0.0",
+ "lance-namespace",
  "lancedb",
  "polars",
  "polars-arrow",
@@ -5651,7 +5634,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b3297343eaf830f66ede390ea39da1d462b6b0c1b000f420d0a83f898bbbe6ef"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.10.0",
- "core-foundation",
+ "core-foundation 0.10.1",
  "core-foundation-sys",
  "libc",
  "security-framework-sys",
@@ -5722,6 +5705,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "zmij",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "serde_path_to_error"
+version = "0.1.20"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "10a9ff822e371bb5403e391ecd83e182e0e77ba7f6fe0160b795797109d1b457"
+dependencies = [
+ "itoa",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_core",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_repr"
 version = "0.1.20"
@@ -6193,6 +6187,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "system-configuration"
+version = "0.6.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3c879d448e9d986b661742763247d3693ed13609438cf3d006f51f5368a5ba6b"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.10.0",
+ "core-foundation 0.9.4",
+ "system-configuration-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "system-configuration-sys"
+version = "0.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8e1d1b10ced5ca923a1fcb8d03e96b8d3268065d724548c0211415ff6ac6bac4"
+dependencies = [
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tagptr"
 version = "0.2.0"
@@ -6434,6 +6449,24 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tower-http"
+version = "0.5.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1e9cd434a998747dd2c4276bc96ee2e0c7a2eadf3cae88e52be55a05fa9053f5"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.10.0",
+ "bytes",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "http-body-util",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -6477,6 +6510,7 @@ version = "0.1.43"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2d15d90a0b5c19378952d479dc858407149d7bb45a14de0142f6c534b16fc647"
 dependencies = [
+ "log",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "tracing-attributes",
  "tracing-core",
@@ -6631,6 +6665,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "urlencoding"
+version = "2.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "daf8dba3b7eb870caf1ddeed7bc9d2a049f3cfdfae7cb521b087cc33ae4c49da"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "utf8-ranges"
 version = "1.0.5"
@@ -6989,6 +7029,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-link 0.1.3",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "windows-registry"
+version = "0.6.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "02752bf7fbdcce7f2a27a742f798510f3e5ad88dbe84871e5168e2120c3d5720"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-link 0.2.1",
+ "windows-result 0.4.1",
+ "windows-strings 0.5.1",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-result"
 version = "0.3.4"
diff --git a/docs/web-tests/rs/Cargo.toml b/docs/web-tests/rs/Cargo.toml
index c8a4cc7ca..6b68f5fff 100644
--- a/docs/web-tests/rs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/docs/web-tests/rs/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ arrow-json = "58.3.0"
 arrow-schema = "58.3.0"
 futures = "0.3.31"
 futures-util = "0.3.31"
-lance-namespace = "7.0.0"
-lancedb = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["polars"] }
+lance-namespace = "8.0.0"
+lancedb = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["polars", "remote"] }
 polars = ">=0.37,<0.40.0"
 polars-arrow = ">=0.37,<0.40.0"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }