Four summaries pointed at the table or sections below, which reads wrongly as a row of the comparison. They now stand alone, and insert links to its bulk-ingest section.
Databases, namespaces, jobs and data evolution work in both offerings.
Materialized views, computed columns and column refresh work in the
embedded library and vary on a deployment, which has to enable them.
Views and functions exist only on a deployment that enables them, and
aggregation, joins, windowing and sampling are SQL, so they need one
with SQL enabled.
Sections now say where they differ: views have SDK methods on a
deployment, dropping a function needs a further setting, a local job
handle runs in-process and has no history, create_index and
refresh_column behave differently against a deployment, and the
overviews no longer call computed columns and materialized views
available everywhere.
Creating, writing, updating, merging and deleting rows, managing tables,
branches and read consistency work in the embedded library and on a
deployment, and those pages now say so. The SQL forms they mention need
a deployment.
Where the offerings differ, the section says how: a deployment reuses an
existing table without comparing schemas, a merge insert can be refused
past a configured number of unindexed rows, space is reclaimed by
optimize() locally and by the deployment's compaction and configured
cleanup otherwise, renaming depends on the catalog, a deployment clones
shallowly only, drops all tables only locally, keeps freshness state per
table handle and defaults freshness to its own setting, and refuses to
delete a branch main depends on. table_exists works only on a namespace
connection.
Guarantees and limits span both offerings, so they carry section notes
rather than a label: reads, retention, index freshness and compaction
differ on a deployment, and the name and job limits are a deployment's.
Move the public website pages into `docs/web` beside the SDK, with
shared navigation and executable example sources in `docs/web-tests`.
The combined website is assembled by
[lancedb/docs#355](https://github.com/lancedb/docs/pull/355), with six
Enterprise replacements from
[lancedb/sophon#7681](https://github.com/lancedb/sophon/pull/7681).
This includes Function guidance, runnable Quickstarts, regenerated
snippets, production contact/demo fixes, the legacy SQL route, and the
LeRobot redirect. LeRobot remains attributed to Geneva; all 34 Geneva
pages remain in the docs repository until Function officially launches.
Materialized-view guidance follows the full rebuild refresh introduced
by #4373: local refresh writes the complete result, has no `full`
argument, supports `source_version`, and no longer requires stable row
IDs. Deployment SQL refresh options and stable-ID setup are qualified by
version/configuration. Function input guidance distinguishes ordinary
stored columns from computed inputs supported by newer deployments.
**Validation:** independently accepted local checks include 95 Python
tests (real Enterprise excluded), eight TypeScript tests, Rust
Quickstart, snippet parity, typos, deterministic assembly, Mint
validation and links/anchors/redirects. The combined baseline retains
all 181 production routes and 17 legacy redirects. Examples ran locally
against source-built Python SDK 0.40.0b13; existing GitHub workflows do
not run `docs/web-tests`. New main at `069b2f7d` is 0.41.0b0 and adds
computed Function inputs; that SDK was not exercised by the accepted
tests. Latest prose corrections receive focused site validation.
**Merge/rollout:** merge this and #7681 before #355's combined CI, which
reads producer `main`. This is migration infrastructure: section
overlays, source-owned skills and automatic versioned paired releases
remain follow-ups. The current manual publisher is transitional. Hosted
validation, a supported SDK/Enterprise release pair and a real
Enterprise walkthrough remain pending.
Production Mintlify watches `lancedb/docs:deploy-freeze`, directory
`docs`; preserve that source through review. The separate SDK GitHub
Pages reference workflow rebuilds on main merges.
**Updated-head CI (9a50f8db):**
[Typos](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/actions/runs/37654185443/job/112904990558),
[PR
title](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/actions/runs/37654179507/job/112904974595)
and
[Aikido](https://app.aikido.dev/featurebranch/scan/215386145?groupId=74229)
pass. Critical findings in the example lockfiles were patched: all Sharp
copies use 0.35.5, protobufjs 7.6.6, tar 7.5.22, quinn-proto 0.11.19,
zerovec 0.11.8 and zerovec-derive 0.11.6. The SDK's product dependencies
are unchanged. The revised lockfiles pass eight TypeScript examples,
HuggingFace decode/resize/crop/rescale/normalize plus AVIF roundtrip,
and Rust Quickstart. Aikido passing does not mean every advisory is
cleared; npm still reports 29 high and five moderate advisories in the
example dependency graph. No scanner bypass or suppression was added.
The Function prose correction passes combined/standalone Mint,
deterministic assembly, routes and assets. The revised 325-file site
checksum is
`175bec06864abb400dd292e667ba93448c0479b8359fd7bf6146afabf9040647`. This
PR remains open for independent review; further merges are on hold.
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Co-authored-by: Brendan Clement <brendan.clement@lancedb.com>
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