## Summary
When an `LsmWriteSpec` is installed on a table (#3396), `merge_insert`
upsert
calls are dispatched through Lance's MemWAL `ShardWriter` (LSM-style
append)
instead of the standard merge path.
- **`use_lsm_write`** — a `merge_insert` builder option, default `true`;
set it
`false` to use the standard path for a call even when a spec is set.
- **`assume_pre_sharded`** — a `merge_insert` builder option, default
`false`;
skips the per-row shard check and routes by the first row only.
- **`close_lsm_writers`** — drains and closes the table's cached MemWAL
shard
writers.
- The `merge_insert` **`on`** columns default to, and are validated
against,
the table's unenforced primary key.
- Shard writers are cached alongside the dataset (in
`DatasetConsistencyWrapper`) and reused for the session.
- `MergeResult` gains **`num_rows`** — on the LSM path the insert/update
breakdown is unknown until compaction, so only the total is reported.
Routing covers all three sharding strategies — bucket (murmur3,
Iceberg-compatible), identity, and unsharded. Each `merge_insert` call
targets
a single shard; the whole input is collected and validated before a
single
atomic `ShardWriter::put`, so a validation failure leaves the MemWAL
untouched.
Bindings: Python (`merge_insert(...).use_lsm_write(...)` /
`.assume_pre_sharded(...)`, `Table.close_lsm_writers`) and TypeScript
(`mergeInsert(...).useLsmWrite(...)` / `.assumePreSharded(...)`,
`Table.closeLsmWriters`).
## Context
Reconstructed from the original #3354 branch onto current `main`: the
branch
predated the #3394 (unenforced primary key) / #3396 (`LsmWriteSpec`)
split and
has been rebuilt on that merged foundation. Depends on Lance
`v7.0.0-beta.13`.
The MemWAL read path (reading un-flushed shard data back into queries)
and
remote (LanceDB Cloud) LSM support are follow-ups.
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Co-authored-by: Jack Ye <yezhaoqin@gmail.com>
This follows the Rust-side Tantivy removal by deleting the remaining
Python Tantivy runtime, tests, and packaging references.
It also turns the legacy Python-only Tantivy parameters into explicit
errors and stops reading legacy `_indices/fts` directories so Python FTS
is fully native-only.
this introduces some breaking changes in terms of rust API of creating
FTS index, and the default index params changed
Signed-off-by: BubbleCal <bubble-cal@outlook.com>
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **New Features**
- Updated default settings for full-text search (FTS) index creation:
stemming, stop word removal, and ASCII folding are now enabled by
default, while token position storage is disabled by default.
- **Refactor**
- Simplified and streamlined the configuration and handling of FTS index
parameters for improved maintainability and consistency across
interfaces.
- Enhanced serialization and request construction for FTS index
parameters to reduce manual handling and improve code clarity.
- Improved test coverage by explicitly enabling positional indexing in
FTS tests to support phrase queries.
- **Chores**
- Upgraded all internal dependencies related to FTS indexing to the
latest version for enhanced compatibility and performance.
- Updated package versions for Node.js, Python, and Rust components to
the latest beta releases.
- Improved CI workflows by adding Rust toolchain setup with formatting
and linting tools.
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Signed-off-by: BubbleCal <bubble-cal@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Will Jones <willjones127@gmail.com>
Adds example for querying a dataset with SQL
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **Documentation**
- Added new guides on querying LanceDB tables using SQL with DuckDB and
Apache Datafusion.
- Included detailed instructions for integrating LanceDB with Datafusion
in Python.
- Updated navigation to include Datafusion and SQL querying
documentation.
- Improved formatting in TypeScript and vectordb update examples for
consistency.
- **Tests**
- Added a new test demonstrating SQL querying on Lance tables via
DataFusion integration.
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Co-authored-by: Weston Pace <weston.pace@gmail.com>
return version info for all write operations (add, update, merge_insert
and column modification operations)
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **New Features**
- Table modification operations (add, update, delete, merge,
add/alter/drop columns) now return detailed result objects including
version numbers and operation statistics.
- Result objects provide clearer feedback such as rows affected and new
table version after each operation.
- **Documentation**
- Updated documentation to describe new result objects and their fields
for all relevant table operations.
- Added documentation for new result interfaces and updated method
return types in Node.js and Python APIs.
- **Tests**
- Enhanced test coverage to assert correctness of returned versioning
and operation metadata after table modifications.
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Based on this comment:
https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/2228#issuecomment-2730463075
and https://github.com/lancedb/lance/pull/2357
Here is my attempt at implementing bindings for returning merge stats
from a `merge_insert.execute` call for lancedb.
Note: I have almost no idea what I am doing in Rust but tried to follow
existing code patterns and pay attention to compiler hints.
- The change in nodejs binding appeared to be necessary to get
compilation to work, presumably this could actual work properly by
returning some kind of NAPI JS object of the stats data?
- I am unsure of what to do with the remote/table.rs changes -
necessarily for compilation to work; I assume this is related to LanceDB
cloud, but unsure the best way to handle that at this point.
Proof of function:
```python
import pandas as pd
import lancedb
db = lancedb.connect("/tmp/test.db")
test_data = pd.DataFrame(
{
"title": ["Hello", "Test Document", "Example", "Data Sample", "Last One"],
"id": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
"content": [
"World",
"This is a test",
"Another example",
"More test data",
"Final entry",
],
}
)
table = db.create_table("documents", data=test_data, exist_ok=True, mode="overwrite")
update_data = pd.DataFrame(
{
"title": [
"Hello, World",
"Test Document, it's good",
"Example",
"Data Sample",
"Last One",
"New One",
],
"id": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
"content": [
"World",
"This is a test",
"Another example",
"More test data",
"Final entry",
"New content",
],
}
)
stats = (
table.merge_insert(on="id")
.when_matched_update_all()
.when_not_matched_insert_all()
.execute(update_data)
)
print(stats)
```
returns
```
{'num_inserted_rows': 1, 'num_updated_rows': 5, 'num_deleted_rows': 0}
```
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **New Features**
- Merge-insert operations now return detailed statistics, including
counts of inserted, updated, and deleted rows.
- **Bug Fixes**
- Tests updated to validate returned merge-insert statistics for
accuracy.
- **Documentation**
- Method documentation improved to reflect new return values and clarify
merge operation results.
- Added documentation for the new `MergeStats` interface detailing
operation statistics.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **New Features**
- Enhanced full-text search capabilities with support for phrase
queries, fuzzy matching, boosting, and multi-column matching.
- Search methods now accept full-text query objects directly, improving
query flexibility and precision.
- Python and JavaScript SDKs updated to handle full-text queries
seamlessly, including async search support.
- **Tests**
- Added comprehensive tests covering fuzzy search, phrase search, and
boosted queries to ensure robust full-text search functionality.
- **Documentation**
- Updated query class documentation to reflect new constructor options
and removal of deprecated methods for clarity and simplicity.
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Signed-off-by: BubbleCal <bubble-cal@outlook.com>
This reverts commit a547c523c2 or #2281
The current implementation can cause panics and performance degradation.
I will bring this back with more testing in
https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/2311
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **Documentation**
- Enhanced clarity on read consistency settings with updated
descriptions and default behavior.
- Removed outdated warnings about eventual consistency from the
troubleshooting guide.
- **Refactor**
- Streamlined the handling of the read consistency interval across
integrations, now defaulting to "None" for improved performance.
- Simplified internal logic to offer a more consistent experience.
- **Tests**
- Updated test expectations to reflect the new default representation
for the read consistency interval.
- Removed redundant tests related to "no consistency" settings for
streamlined testing.
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Previously, when we loaded the next version of the table, we would block
all reads with a write lock. Now, we only do that if
`read_consistency_interval=0`. Otherwise, we load the next version
asynchronously in the background. This should mean that
`read_consistency_interval > 0` won't have a meaningful impact on
latency.
Along with this change, I felt it was safe to change the default
consistency interval to 5 seconds. The current default is `None`, which
means we will **never** check for a new version by default. I think that
default is contrary to most users expectations.
Previously, users could only specify new data types in `alterColumns` as
strings:
```ts
await tbl.alterColumns([
path: "price",
dataType: "float"
]);
```
But this has some problems:
1. It wasn't clear what were valid types
2. It was impossible to specify nested types, like lists and vector
columns.
This PR changes it to take an Arrow data type, similar to how the Python
API works. This allows casting vector types:
```ts
await tbl.alterColumns([
{
path: "vector",
dataType: new arrow.FixedSizeList(
2,
new arrow.Field("item", new arrow.Float16(), false),
),
},
]);
```
Closes#2185
BREAKING CHANGE: embedding function implementations in Node need to now
call `resolveVariables()` in their constructors and should **not**
implement `toJSON()`.
This tries to address the handling of secrets. In Node, they are
currently lost. In Python, they are currently leaked into the table
schema metadata.
This PR introduces an in-memory variable store on the function registry.
It also allows embedding function definitions to label certain config
values as "sensitive", and the preprocessing logic will raise an error
if users try to pass in hard-coded values.
Closes#2110Closes#521
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Co-authored-by: Weston Pace <weston.pace@gmail.com>
Reviving #1966.
Closes#1938
The `search()` method can apply embeddings for the user. This simplifies
hybrid search, so instead of writing:
```python
vector_query = embeddings.compute_query_embeddings("flower moon")[0]
await (
async_tbl.query()
.nearest_to(vector_query)
.nearest_to_text("flower moon")
.to_pandas()
)
```
You can write:
```python
await (await async_tbl.search("flower moon", query_type="hybrid")).to_pandas()
```
Unfortunately, we had to do a double-await here because `search()` needs
to be async. This is because it often needs to do IO to retrieve and run
an embedding function.
Address usage mistakes in
https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/2135.
* Add example of how to use `LanceModel` and `Vector` decorator
* Add test for pydantic doc
* Fix the example to directly use LanceModel instead of calling
`MyModel.to_arrow_schema()` in the example.
* Add cross-reference link to pydantic doc site
* Configure mkdocs to watch code changes in python directory.
This PR aims to fix#2047 by doing the following things:
- Add a distance_type parameter to the sync query builders of Python
SDK.
- Make metric an alias to distance_type.
BREAKING CHANGE: For a field "vector", list of integers will now be
converted to binary (uint8) vectors instead of f32 vectors. Use float
values instead for f32 vectors.
* Adds proper support for inserting and upserting subsets of the full
schema. I thought I had previously implemented this in #1827, but it
turns out I had not tested carefully enough.
* Refactors `_santize_data` and other utility functions to be simpler
and not require `numpy` or `combine_chunks()`.
* Added a new suite of unit tests to validate sanitization utilities.
## Examples
```python
import pandas as pd
import lancedb
db = lancedb.connect("memory://demo")
intial_data = pd.DataFrame({
"a": [1, 2, 3],
"b": [4, 5, 6],
"c": [7, 8, 9]
})
table = db.create_table("demo", intial_data)
# Insert a subschema
new_data = pd.DataFrame({"a": [10, 11]})
table.add(new_data)
table.to_pandas()
```
```
a b c
0 1 4.0 7.0
1 2 5.0 8.0
2 3 6.0 9.0
3 10 NaN NaN
4 11 NaN NaN
```
```python
# Upsert a subschema
upsert_data = pd.DataFrame({
"a": [3, 10, 15],
"b": [6, 7, 8],
})
table.merge_insert(on="a").when_matched_update_all().when_not_matched_insert_all().execute(upsert_data)
table.to_pandas()
```
```
a b c
0 1 4.0 7.0
1 2 5.0 8.0
2 3 6.0 9.0
3 10 7.0 NaN
4 11 NaN NaN
5 15 8.0 NaN
```
binary vectors and hamming distance can work on only IVF_FLAT, so
introduce them all in this PR.
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Signed-off-by: BubbleCal <bubble-cal@outlook.com>
- Tried to address some onboarding feedbacks listed in
https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/1224
- Improve visibility of pydantic integration and embedding API. (Based
on onboarding feedback - Many ways of ingesting data, defining schema
but not sure what to use in a specific use-case)
- Add a guide that takes users through testing and improving retriever
performance using built-in utilities like hybrid-search and reranking
- Add some benchmarks for the above
- Add missing cohere docs
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Co-authored-by: Weston Pace <weston.pace@gmail.com>
Heng Ge
Xuanwo
BubbleCal
Renato Marroquin
LuQQiu
Alex Pilon
Will Jones
Lei Xu
Vaibhav
QianZhu
Ayush Chaurasia
Weston Pace