CatalogConnection.list_databases should return an iterator so that users
don't have to manually re-implement pagination. For those who do want
more control over pagination, add num_page_results and page_token to the
Iterator object, and also allow the iterator object to be created at a
specific page token.
Add a `Catalog` trait and `RemoteCatalog` for managing databases,
exposed through Rust, synchronous/asynchronous Python, and TypeScript. A
remote catalog represents the server's root namespace, and each database
is one child namespace. Create/connect return ordinary LanceDB
connections, so existing table APIs work unchanged.
## Rust API
`Catalog` is an object-safe async trait with `create_database`,
`connect_database`, `list_databases`, and `drop_database`. Backend
create/connect methods return `Arc<dyn Database>`; the public
`CatalogConnection` wraps them as `Connection` values and shares its
embedding registry with those connections. `RemoteCatalog` implements
the trait; `connect_catalog` is the convenience builder, available with
the `remote` feature.
```rust
use lancedb::catalog::{
CreateDatabaseRequest, DropDatabaseRequest, ListDatabasesRequest,
};
let catalog = lancedb::connect_catalog("https://my-server.example")
.api_key("my-api-key")
.execute()
.await?;
let db = catalog.create_database(
CreateDatabaseRequest::new("analytics").exist_ok(true),
).await?;
let connected = catalog.connect_database("analytics").await?;
let page = catalog.list_databases(
ListDatabasesRequest::default().limit(20),
).await?;
// page.databases: Vec<String>; page.page_token: Option<String>
catalog.drop_database(
DropDatabaseRequest::new("analytics").ignore_missing(true),
).await?;
```
Create/drop also accept a plain name for default behavior, e.g.
`catalog.create_database("analytics").await?`. Existing names fail
creation unless `exist_ok` is enabled; missing names fail drop unless
`ignore_missing` is enabled. Drop always requires an empty database.
## Python API
```python
import lancedb
catalog = lancedb.connect_catalog(
"https://my-server.example", api_key="my-api-key"
)
db = catalog.create_database("analytics", exist_ok=True)
connected = catalog.connect_database("analytics")
page = catalog.list_databases(limit=20)
# page.databases: list[str]; page.page_token: Optional[str]
if page.page_token is not None:
next_page = catalog.list_databases(limit=20, page_token=page.page_token)
catalog.drop_database("analytics", ignore_missing=True)
```
`connect_catalog` returns `Catalog`; create/connect return the existing
`DBConnection` API. The async equivalent is `catalog = await
lancedb.connect_catalog_async(...)`, returning `AsyncCatalog`; await
each of the same four methods, with create/connect returning
`AsyncConnection`.
## TypeScript API
```typescript
import { connectCatalog } from "@lancedb/lancedb";
const catalog = await connectCatalog("https://my-server.example", {
apiKey: "my-api-key",
});
const db = await catalog.createDatabase("analytics", { existOk: true });
const connected = await catalog.connectDatabase("analytics");
const page = await catalog.listDatabases({ limit: 20 });
// page.databases: string[]; page.pageToken?: string
if (page.pageToken !== undefined) {
const nextPage = await catalog.listDatabases({
limit: 20, pageToken: page.pageToken,
});
}
await catalog.dropDatabase("analytics", { ignoreMissing: true });
```
Create/connect return the existing `Connection` API. All four methods
are asynchronous.
## REST mapping
All paths below are relative to the catalog endpoint. `{name}` is the
logical database name encoded as one URL path component. The default
namespace delimiter is `$`, so the root identifier is encoded as `%24`.
| Catalog operation | Existing REST route | Request |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `create_database(name)` | `POST /v1/namespace/{name}/create` |
`{"mode":"Create"}`; `exist_ok=true` sends `{"mode":"ExistOk"}` |
| `connect_database(name)` | `POST /v1/namespace/{name}/describe` |
`{}`; verifies existence before returning a scoped connection |
| `list_databases(...)` | `GET /v1/namespace/%24/list` | Optional
`limit` and `page_token` query parameters |
| `drop_database(name)` | `POST /v1/namespace/{name}/drop` |
`{"mode":"Fail","behavior":"Restrict"}`; `ignore_missing=true` changes
mode to `"Skip"` |
For example, database `team/search` uses
`/v1/namespace/team%2Fsearch/create`. A paginated root listing can use
`/v1/namespace/%24/list?limit=20&page_token=a%2Fb`. The list response
retains the existing namespace wire shape,
`{"namespaces":["analytics"],"page_token":"next"}`; the SDK exposes
`namespaces` as `databases` and preserves the opaque continuation token.
An absent or empty token ends pagination. Page limits must be between 1
and 2147483647. Create/drop accept a namespace JSON response or HTTP
204.
Catalog management requests omit both `x-lancedb-database` and
`x-lancedb-database-prefix`, including values supplied through static or
dynamic headers. Returned database connections set `x-lancedb-database`
to the exact logical name and keep independent scope. API keys, OAuth or
dynamic authentication, client settings, table read consistency
settings, and an optional SQL endpoint override carry over to those
connections. OAuth cannot be combined with an API key or a custom header
provider.
For SQL through an HTTPS catalog, configure the existing SQL endpoint
contract with Rust
`.sql_host_override("grpc+tls://sql.example.com:10026")` or Python
`sql_host_override="grpc+tls://sql.example.com:10026"`. TypeScript
catalog options expose the same setting as `sqlHostOverride`. It is
inherited by created/connected databases, retained by Python connection
serialization, and initialized lazily when SQL is executed.
Create HTTP 409 maps to `DatabaseAlreadyExists`; connect/drop HTTP 404
maps to `DatabaseNotFound`, except that `ignore_missing` suppresses a
missing-database drop. Other server errors propagate. The server
enforces restricted deletion; the client never requests cascading
deletion.
Database names preserve literal slashes as part of one name. They must
be nonempty ASCII, with no control characters, surrounding whitespace,
or configured namespace delimiter, and cannot be `.` or `..`. Endpoints
must be HTTP(S) URLs without embedded credentials, query parameters, or
fragments.
## Scope
This PR adds the client API and reuses existing namespace endpoints.
Local catalogs, `__catalog` storage, location generation/sanitization,
and `__manifest` lifecycle support remain deferred; the Lance dependency
is unchanged.
The PR also runs macOS Node tests serially to avoid existing
resource-contention timeouts reproduced across recent main runs.
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## Issue
Fixes#4063
## Background
The Node.js SDK currently requires callers to know the Arrow extension
metadata needed to represent JSON fields. This makes a common LanceDB
schema type unnecessarily verbose and easy to get wrong.
## Changes
- Add `makeJsonField(name, nullable = true)` to create a UTF-8 Arrow
field with the `arrow.json` extension metadata.
- Re-export the helper from the public Node.js entry point.
- Add coverage for the default nullable behavior, explicit non-nullable
fields, and the extension metadata.
- Add the generated TypeDoc function page and public globals entry,
including a usage example.
## Implementation
The helper uses the existing Apache Arrow `Field` type and sets
`ARROW:extension:name` to `arrow.json`, matching the metadata convention
already used by LanceDB.
## Compatibility
This is an additive Node.js API. Existing schema construction and Arrow
behavior are unchanged.
## Verification
- `pnpm test -- arrow.test.ts --runInBand` — 236 tests passed.
- `pnpm exec biome ci lancedb/arrow.ts lancedb/index.ts
__test__/arrow.test.ts` — passed.
- `git diff --check` — passed.
## Not run / known limitations
- `pnpm build` and `pnpm run docs` were attempted after expanding the
checkout. Both are blocked locally by the native binding build/type
declarations: Cargo did not complete, and TypeDoc reported the missing
generated `nodejs/lancedb/native` module. The docs files were generated
from the updated TypeScript comments; full build and docs validation are
left to CI.
this PR blob v2 field helpers and reads to the Node SDK.
`blob()` marks a field as blob v2 and lets you set the storage
thresholds. Inputs can be bytes, a URI, or a data/uri struct.
Queries return descriptors. `fetchBlobs()` reads the bytes by row ID,
and `fetchBlobFiles()` gives you lazy handles for full or range reads.
`blobColumns()` lists the blob fields, including nested ones.
Fetch uses the table’s current checkout. It preserves order, duplicates,
and nulls. Holding row IDs across compaction still requires stable row
IDs.
```javascript
const db = await connect("./data");
const video = await readFile("clip.mp4");
const table = await db.createTable(
"videos",
[{ id: 1n, video }],
{
schema: new Schema([
new Field("id", new Int64()),
blob("video"),
]),
},
);
const rows = await table.query().select(["id"]).withRowId().toArray();
const rowIds = rows.map((row) => row._rowid as bigint);
const bytes = await table.fetchBlobs("video", rowIds);
const [handle] = await table.fetchBlobFiles("video", rowIds);
const header = await handle!.readRange(0n, 65536n);
```
### Testing
- cover input validation, thresholds, nested fields, fetch ordering,
nulls, and range reads.
## Summary
- add table-level FTS query tokenization returning token text and
position
- use the native index tokenizer for local tables and remote index
metadata for remote tables
- expose sync and async Python table wrappers with focused coverage
Bridges Lance's internal `metrics`-crate instrumentation (object store
request counts, bytes, latency, errors, and throttles) into
OpenTelemetry, in both the Python and Node bindings, with a shared
adapter in the Rust core. This is the LanceDB counterpart to
lance-format/lance#7537.
## Rust core (`rust/lancedb`)
Two new, **off-by-default** features:
- `metrics` — re-exports the [`metrics`](https://docs.rs/metrics) crate
as `lancedb::metrics` and turns on Lance's object-store instrumentation.
Install any `metrics`-compatible recorder to collect them.
- `metrics-otel` — adds `lancedb::metrics_otel`, a pull-based adapter
that installs a process-global recorder aggregating into lock-free
cumulative storage and exposes a snapshot/catalog API
(`register_metrics_recorder`, `metrics_catalog`, `snapshot_metrics`,
`MetricPoint`/`MetricValue`/`MetricKind`/`MetricDescription`). Both
bindings build on this.
## Python
`lancedb.otel.instrument_lancedb_metrics()` registers each metric as an
OpenTelemetry observable instrument on the given (or global)
`MeterProvider`. Available via the `otel` extra (`pip install
lancedb[otel]`), which pulls in only `opentelemetry-api` — the
application supplies and configures the SDK.
## Node
`instrumentLanceDbMetrics()` provides the equivalent wiring against
`@opentelemetry/api`. This is the only public entry point; the
underlying recorder/catalog/snapshot functions stay internal.
Because OpenTelemetry has no asynchronous histogram instrument,
histograms are exported Prometheus-style as `<name>_bucket` (with an
`le` attribute), `<name>_count`, and `<name>_sum`. Only `_sum` carries
the histogram's unit; `_bucket` and `_count` observe cumulative counts
and are unitless. The adapter is enabled by default in the Python and
Node builds, and off by default in the Rust crate.
## Notes
- Requires Lance ≥ `v9.0.0-beta.19`, which ships the object-store
metrics APIs (upstream lance-format/lance#7537, now merged). `main` is
already on beta.19, so this is a single feature commit with no
dependency bump.
- Tests: 8 Rust unit tests, 3 Python tests, 2 Node tests, all covering
the end-to-end object-store-metrics → OpenTelemetry path.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
JS native Async Generator, more efficient asynchronous iteration, fewer
synthetic promises, and the ability to handle `catch` or `break` of
parent loop in `finally` block
I'm working on a lancedb version of pytorch data loading (and hopefully
addressing https://github.com/lancedb/lance/issues/3727).
However, rather than rely on pytorch for everything I'm moving some of
the things that pytorch does into rust. This gives us more control over
data loading (e.g. using shards or a hash-based split) and it allows
permutations to be persistent. In particular I hope to be able to:
* Create a persistent permutation
* This permutation can handle splits, filtering, shuffling, and sharding
* Create a rust data loader that can read a permutation (one or more
splits), or a subset of a permutation (for DDP)
* Create a python data loader that delegates to the rust data loader
Eventually create integrations for other data loading libraries,
including rust & node
## Summary
This PR introduces a `HeaderProvider` which is called for all remote
HTTP calls to get the latest headers to inject. This is useful for
features like adding the latest auth tokens where the header provider
can auto-refresh tokens internally and each request always set the
refreshed token.
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## Summary
- Exposes `Session` in Python and Typescript so users can set the
`index_cache_size_bytes` and `metadata_cache_size_bytes`
* The `Session` is attached to the `Connection`, and thus shared across
all tables in that connection.
- Adds deprecation warnings for table-level cache configuration
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* Make `npm run docs` fail if there are any warnings. This will catch
items missing from the API reference.
* Add a check in our CI to make sure `npm run dos` runs without warnings
and doesn't generate any new files (indicating it might be out-of-date.
* Hide constructors that aren't user facing.
* Remove unused enum `WriteMode`.
Closes#2068
* Sets `"useCodeBlocks": true`
* Adds a post-processing script `nodejs/typedoc_post_process.js` that
puts the parameter description on the same line as the parameter name,
like it is in our Python docs. This makes the text hierarchy clearer in
those sections and also makes the sections shorter.
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Jack YeandXuanwo
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