## Summary
Adopts the product terminology guide across the docs site pages, SDK
docstrings and error messages. "LanceDB OSS" and local mode become
**LanceDB Embedded**. "Remote" as the execution model becomes **LanceDB
Distributed**, which LanceDB Enterprise provides. Where free vs paid is
the point, pages contrast "LanceDB Embedded (open source)" with "LanceDB
Enterprise". This is a first trial of the Embedded name, so reviewers
can judge it in context.
- **Embedded vs Distributed** for where execution runs (`optimize()`,
consistency, branching, maintenance). Main pages define it once:
"LanceDB Enterprise runs LanceDB Distributed: …"
- **LanceDB Cloud** is kept only for legacy-Cloud specifics (`db://`
region, the brute-force KNN limit) and marked legacy. "Cloud and
Enterprise" becomes Enterprise or Distributed.
- **Plan executor** becomes "executor" or the fleet name.
- **Error messages** change, e.g. `optimize is not supported for remote
tables.` → `... in LanceDB Distributed.` Tests that match on them are
updated.
- **Vale rules** (`EmbeddedName`, `OSSProduct`, `RemoteExecution`,
`DistributedEnterprise`, `LegacyCloud`, `InternalNames`) enforce the
terms in prose.
Unchanged: identifiers (`availability.oss`, the `remote` module and
feature, `RemoteTable`, `db://`), heading anchors, internal code
comments, and Geneva.
## Evidence
- Rust lib tests for the changed messages and the Python tests in
`test_remote_db.py`, `test_materialized_views.py` and `test_table.py`
pass locally.
- Not run locally:
- The Node tests: `remote.test.ts` and `table.test.ts` have updated
assertions.
- Vale.
- The `experimental_functions`-marked materialized-view tests.
- `docs/src` API reference was hand-edited to match the docstrings
rather than regenerated.
## Merge Risk
**Door:** two-way; prose and message text only.
**Blast Radius:** `docs`, `error-messages`: callers matching on old
error strings would break.
Companion PRs: lancedb/docs (assembler labels, STYLE.md) and sophon
(Enterprise pages).
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add Reverie banner to the top of README until event ends.
Additionally, I also removed the "LanceDB Cloud" skinny banner since
we're not promoting that right? Should we modify the larger LanceDB
modify to not mention "Try LanceDB Cloud"?
Did a full scan of all URLs that used to point to the old mkdocs pages,
and now links to the appropriate pages on lancedb.com/docs or lance.org
docs.
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Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Added a new readme for better navigation, updated language and more
detail
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **Documentation**
- Updated the README with a modernized header, improved structure, and
clearer descriptions of features and architecture.
- Expanded and reorganized key features and product offerings for better
clarity.
- Simplified installation instructions and added a table of SDK
interfaces with documentation links.
- Enhanced community and contributor sections with new visuals and links
to social and support channels.
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Hello team,
I'm the maintainer of [Anteon](https://github.com/getanteon/anteon). We
have created Gurubase.io with the mission of building a centralized,
open-source tool-focused knowledge base. Essentially, each "guru" is
equipped with custom knowledge to answer user questions based on
collected data related to that tool.
I wanted to update you that I've manually added the [LanceDB
Guru](https://gurubase.io/g/lancedb) to Gurubase. LanceDB Guru uses the
data from this repo and data from the
[docs](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/) to answer questions by
leveraging the LLM.
In this PR, I showcased the "LanceDB Guru", which highlights that
LanceDB now has an AI assistant available to help users with their
questions. Please let me know your thoughts on this contribution.
Additionally, if you want me to disable LanceDB Guru in Gurubase, just
let me know that's totally fine.
Signed-off-by: Kursat Aktas <kursat.ce@gmail.com>
- The JS/TS library actually expects named parameters via an object in
`.createTable()` rather than individual arguments
- Added example on how to search rows by criteria without a vector
search. TS type of `.search()` currently has the `query` parameter as
non-optional so we have to pass undefined for now.
Add `to_list` to return query results as list of python dict (so we're
not too pandas-centric). Closes#555
Add `to_pandas` API and add deprecation warning on `to_df`. Closes#545
Co-authored-by: Chang She <chang@lancedb.com>
- Creates testing files `md_testing.py` and `md_testing.js` for testing
python and nodejs code in markdown files in the documentation
This listens for HTML tags as well: `<!--[language] code code
code...-->` will create a set-up file to create some mock tables or to
fulfill some assumptions in the documentation.
- Creates a github action workflow that triggers every push/pr to
`docs/**`
- Modifies documentation so tests run (mostly indentation, some small
syntax errors and some missing imports)
A list of excluded files that we need to take a closer look at later on:
```javascript
const excludedFiles = [
"../src/fts.md",
"../src/embedding.md",
"../src/examples/serverless_lancedb_with_s3_and_lambda.md",
"../src/examples/serverless_qa_bot_with_modal_and_langchain.md",
"../src/examples/youtube_transcript_bot_with_nodejs.md",
];
```
Many of them can't be done because we need the OpenAI API key :(.
`fts.md` has some issues with the library, I believe this is still
experimental?
Closes#170
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Co-authored-by: Will Jones <willjones127@gmail.com>
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