Bump version: 0.22.0-beta.12 → 0.22.0

Upstream changelog:
https://github.com/lancedb/lance/releases/tag/v0.26.0

<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
-->

## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Chores**
- Updated dependency management to use published crate versions for
improved reliability and maintainability.
- Added a temporary workaround for build issues by pinning a specific
version of a dependency.
- **Refactor**
- Improved resource management and concurrency by updating internal
ownership models for object storage components.

<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

.bumpversion.toml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tool.bumpversion]
-current_version = "0.7.1"
+current_version = "0.19.0-beta.11"
 parse = """(?x)
     (?P<major>0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.
     (?P<minor>0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.
@@ -24,34 +24,87 @@ commit = true
 message = "Bump version: {current_version} → {new_version}"
 commit_args = ""
 
+# Java maven files
+pre_commit_hooks = [
+  """
+    NEW_VERSION="${BVHOOK_NEW_MAJOR}.${BVHOOK_NEW_MINOR}.${BVHOOK_NEW_PATCH}"
+    if [ ! -z "$BVHOOK_NEW_PRE_L" ] && [ ! -z "$BVHOOK_NEW_PRE_N" ]; then
+        NEW_VERSION="${NEW_VERSION}-${BVHOOK_NEW_PRE_L}.${BVHOOK_NEW_PRE_N}"
+    fi
+    echo "Constructed new version: $NEW_VERSION"
+    cd java && mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=$NEW_VERSION && mvn versions:commit
+
+    # Check for any modified but unstaged pom.xml files
+    MODIFIED_POMS=$(git ls-files -m | grep pom.xml)
+    if [ ! -z "$MODIFIED_POMS" ]; then
+        echo "The following pom.xml files were modified but not staged. Adding them now:"
+        echo "$MODIFIED_POMS" | while read -r file; do
+            git add "$file"
+            echo "Added: $file"
+        done
+    fi
+    """,
+]
+
 [tool.bumpversion.parts.pre_l]
-values = ["beta", "final"]
 optional_value = "final"
+values = ["beta", "final"]
 
 [[tool.bumpversion.files]]
 filename = "node/package.json"
-search = "\"version\": \"{current_version}\","
 replace = "\"version\": \"{new_version}\","
+search = "\"version\": \"{current_version}\","
 
 [[tool.bumpversion.files]]
 filename = "nodejs/package.json"
-search = "\"version\": \"{current_version}\","
 replace = "\"version\": \"{new_version}\","
+search = "\"version\": \"{current_version}\","
 
 # nodejs binary packages
 [[tool.bumpversion.files]]
 glob = "nodejs/npm/*/package.json"
-search = "\"version\": \"{current_version}\","
 replace = "\"version\": \"{new_version}\","
+search = "\"version\": \"{current_version}\","
+
+# vectodb node binary packages
+[[tool.bumpversion.files]]
+glob = "node/package.json"
+replace = "\"@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64\": \"{new_version}\""
+search = "\"@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64\": \"{current_version}\""
+
+[[tool.bumpversion.files]]
+glob = "node/package.json"
+replace = "\"@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64\": \"{new_version}\""
+search = "\"@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64\": \"{current_version}\""
+
+[[tool.bumpversion.files]]
+glob = "node/package.json"
+replace = "\"@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu\": \"{new_version}\""
+search = "\"@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu\": \"{current_version}\""
+
+[[tool.bumpversion.files]]
+glob = "node/package.json"
+replace = "\"@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu\": \"{new_version}\""
+search = "\"@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu\": \"{current_version}\""
+
+[[tool.bumpversion.files]]
+glob = "node/package.json"
+replace = "\"@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc\": \"{new_version}\""
+search = "\"@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc\": \"{current_version}\""
 
 # Cargo files
 # ------------
 [[tool.bumpversion.files]]
 filename = "rust/ffi/node/Cargo.toml"
-search = "\nversion = \"{current_version}\""
 replace = "\nversion = \"{new_version}\""
+search = "\nversion = \"{current_version}\""
 
 [[tool.bumpversion.files]]
 filename = "rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml"
-search = "\nversion = \"{current_version}\""
 replace = "\nversion = \"{new_version}\""
+search = "\nversion = \"{current_version}\""
+
+[[tool.bumpversion.files]]
+filename = "nodejs/Cargo.toml"
+replace = "\nversion = \"{new_version}\""
+search = "\nversion = \"{current_version}\""

.cargo/config.toml

@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ rustflags = [
 [target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
 rustflags = ["-C", "target-cpu=haswell", "-C", "target-feature=+avx2,+fma,+f16c"]
 
+[target.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl]
+rustflags = ["-C", "target-cpu=haswell", "-C", "target-feature=-crt-static,+avx2,+fma,+f16c"]
+
+[target.aarch64-unknown-linux-musl]
+linker = "aarch64-linux-musl-gcc"
+rustflags = ["-C", "target-feature=-crt-static"]
+
 [target.aarch64-apple-darwin]
 rustflags = ["-C", "target-cpu=apple-m1", "-C", "target-feature=+neon,+fp16,+fhm,+dotprod"]
 
@@ -38,3 +45,7 @@ rustflags = ["-C", "target-cpu=apple-m1", "-C", "target-feature=+neon,+fp16,+fhm
 # not found errors on systems that are missing it.
 [target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
 rustflags = ["-Ctarget-feature=+crt-static"]
+
+# Experimental target for Arm64 Windows
+[target.aarch64-pc-windows-msvc]
+rustflags = ["-Ctarget-feature=+crt-static"]

.github/workflows/build_linux_wheel/action.yml

@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ runs:
         args: ${{ inputs.args }}
         before-script-linux: |
           set -e
-          yum install -y openssl-devel \
+          curl -L https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v24.4/protoc-24.4-linux-$(uname -m).zip > /tmp/protoc.zip \
-            && curl -L https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v24.4/protoc-24.4-linux-$(uname -m).zip > /tmp/protoc.zip \
             && unzip /tmp/protoc.zip -d /usr/local \
             && rm /tmp/protoc.zip
     - name: Build Arm Manylinux Wheel
@@ -52,12 +51,7 @@ runs:
         args: ${{ inputs.args }}
         before-script-linux: |
           set -e
-          apt install -y unzip
+          yum install -y clang \
-          if [ $(uname -m) = "x86_64" ]; then
+            && curl -L https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v24.4/protoc-24.4-linux-aarch_64.zip > /tmp/protoc.zip \
-            PROTOC_ARCH="x86_64"
-          else
-            PROTOC_ARCH="aarch_64"
-          fi
-          curl -L https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v24.4/protoc-24.4-linux-$PROTOC_ARCH.zip > /tmp/protoc.zip \
             && unzip /tmp/protoc.zip -d /usr/local \
             && rm /tmp/protoc.zip

.github/workflows/build_mac_wheel/action.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ runs:
       uses: PyO3/maturin-action@v1
       with:
         command: build
+        # TODO: pass through interpreter
         args: ${{ inputs.args }}
         docker-options: "-e PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/"
         working-directory: python
-        interpreter: 3.${{ inputs.python-minor-version }}

.github/workflows/build_windows_wheel/action.yml

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ runs:
         args: ${{ inputs.args }}
         docker-options: "-e PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/"
         working-directory: python
-    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
       with:
         name: windows-wheels
         path: python\target\wheels

.github/workflows/docs.yml

@@ -18,17 +18,24 @@ concurrency:
   group: "pages"
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
+env:
+  # This reduces the disk space needed for the build
+  RUSTFLAGS: "-C debuginfo=0"
+  # according to: https://matklad.github.io/2021/09/04/fast-rust-builds.html
+  # CI builds are faster with incremental disabled.
+  CARGO_INCREMENTAL: "0"
+
 jobs:
   # Single deploy job since we're just deploying
   build:
     environment:
       name: github-pages
       url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
-    runs-on: buildjet-8vcpu-ubuntu-2204
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Install dependecies needed for ubuntu
+      - name: Install dependencies needed for ubuntu
         run: |
           sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev
           rustup update && rustup default
@@ -38,18 +45,18 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "3.10"
           cache: "pip"
           cache-dependency-path: "docs/requirements.txt"
+      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
       - name: Build Python
         working-directory: python
         run: |
-          python -m pip install -e .
+          python -m pip install --extra-index-url https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/ -e .
-          python -m pip install -r ../docs/requirements.txt
+          python -m pip install --extra-index-url https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/ -r ../docs/requirements.txt
       - name: Set up node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
           node-version: 20
           cache: 'npm'
           cache-dependency-path: node/package-lock.json
-      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
       - name: Install node dependencies
         working-directory: node
         run: |
@@ -72,9 +79,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Pages
         uses: actions/configure-pages@v2
       - name: Upload artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v1
+        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
         with:
           path: "docs/site"
       - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
         id: deployment
-        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v1
+        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4

.github/workflows/docs_test.yml

@@ -24,15 +24,19 @@ env:
 jobs:
   test-python:
     name: Test doc python code
-    runs-on: "warp-ubuntu-latest-x64-4x"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
     - name: Checkout
       uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Print CPU capabilities
       run: cat /proc/cpuinfo
+    - name: Install protobuf
+      run: |
+        sudo apt update
+        sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler
     - name: Install dependecies needed for ubuntu
       run: |
-        sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev
+        sudo apt install -y libssl-dev
         rustup update && rustup default
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
@@ -45,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Build Python
       working-directory: docs/test
       run:
-        python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
+        python -m pip install --extra-index-url https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/ -r requirements.txt
     - name: Create test files
       run: |
         cd docs/test
@@ -56,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
         for d in *; do cd "$d"; echo "$d".py; python "$d".py; cd ..; done
   test-node:
     name: Test doc nodejs code
-    runs-on: "warp-ubuntu-latest-x64-4x"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 60
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
@@ -72,9 +76,13 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-node@v4
       with:
         node-version: 20
+    - name: Install protobuf
+      run: |
+        sudo apt update
+        sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler
     - name: Install dependecies needed for ubuntu
       run: |
-        sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev
+        sudo apt install -y libssl-dev
         rustup update && rustup default
     - name: Rust cache
       uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2

.github/workflows/java-publish.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+name: Build and publish Java packages
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [released]
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - .github/workflows/java-publish.yml
+
+jobs:
+  macos-arm64:
+    name: Build on MacOS Arm64
+    runs-on: macos-14
+    timeout-minutes: 45
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: ./java/core/lancedb-jni
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          brew install protobuf
+      - name: Build release
+        run: |
+          cargo build --release
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: liblancedb_jni_darwin_aarch64.zip
+          path: target/release/liblancedb_jni.dylib
+          retention-days: 1
+          if-no-files-found: error
+  linux-arm64:
+    name: Build on Linux Arm64
+    runs-on: warp-ubuntu-2204-arm64-8x
+    timeout-minutes: 45
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: ./java/core/lancedb-jni
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+      - uses: actions-rust-lang/setup-rust-toolchain@v1
+        with:
+          toolchain: "1.81.0"
+          cache-workspaces: "./java/core/lancedb-jni"
+          # Disable full debug symbol generation to speed up CI build and keep memory down
+          # "1" means line tables only, which is useful for panic tracebacks.
+          rustflags: "-C debuginfo=1"
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt -y -qq update
+          sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev pkg-config
+      - name: Build release
+        run: |
+          cargo build --release
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: liblancedb_jni_linux_aarch64.zip
+          path: target/release/liblancedb_jni.so
+          retention-days: 1
+          if-no-files-found: error
+  linux-x86:
+    runs-on: warp-ubuntu-2204-x64-8x
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    needs: [macos-arm64, linux-arm64]
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: ./java
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+      - name: Set up Java 8
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: temurin
+          java-version: 8
+          cache: "maven"
+          server-id: ossrh
+          server-username: SONATYPE_USER
+          server-password: SONATYPE_TOKEN
+          gpg-private-key: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+          gpg-passphrase: ${{ secrets.GPG_PASSPHRASE }}
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt -y -qq update
+          sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev pkg-config
+      - name: Download artifact
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+      - name: Copy native libs
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p ./core/target/classes/nativelib/darwin-aarch64 ./core/target/classes/nativelib/linux-aarch64
+          cp ../liblancedb_jni_darwin_aarch64.zip/liblancedb_jni.dylib ./core/target/classes/nativelib/darwin-aarch64/liblancedb_jni.dylib
+          cp ../liblancedb_jni_linux_aarch64.zip/liblancedb_jni.so ./core/target/classes/nativelib/linux-aarch64/liblancedb_jni.so
+      - name: Dry run
+        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+        run: |
+          mvn --batch-mode -DskipTests -Drust.release.build=true package
+      - name: Set github
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.email "LanceDB Github Runner"
+          git config --global user.name "dev+gha@lancedb.com"
+      - name: Publish with Java 8
+        if: github.event_name == 'release'
+        run: |
+          echo "use-agent" >> ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
+          echo "pinentry-mode loopback" >> ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
+          export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
+          mvn --batch-mode -DskipTests -Drust.release.build=true -DpushChanges=false -Dgpg.passphrase=${{ secrets.GPG_PASSPHRASE }} deploy -P deploy-to-ossrh
+        env:
+          SONATYPE_USER: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_USER }}
+          SONATYPE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/java.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
+    paths:
+      - java/**
   pull_request:
     paths:
       - java/**
@@ -21,9 +23,42 @@ env:
   CARGO_INCREMENTAL: "0"
   CARGO_BUILD_JOBS: "1"
 jobs:
-  linux-build:
+  linux-build-java-11:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    name: ubuntu-22.04 + Java 11 & 17
+    name: ubuntu-22.04 + Java 11
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: ./java
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+        with:
+          workspaces: java/core/lancedb-jni
+      - name: Run cargo fmt
+        run: cargo fmt --check
+        working-directory: ./java/core/lancedb-jni
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt update
+          sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev
+      - name: Install Java 11
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: temurin
+          java-version: 11
+          cache: "maven"
+      - name: Java Style Check
+        run: mvn checkstyle:check
+      # Disable because of issues in lancedb rust core code
+      # - name: Rust Clippy
+      #   working-directory: java/core/lancedb-jni
+      #   run: cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
+      - name: Running tests with Java 11
+        run: mvn clean test
+  linux-build-java-17:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    name: ubuntu-22.04 + Java 17
     defaults:
       run:
         working-directory: ./java
@@ -47,20 +82,12 @@ jobs:
           java-version: 17
           cache: "maven"
       - run: echo "JAVA_17=$JAVA_HOME" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-      - name: Install Java 11
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
-        with:
-          distribution: temurin
-          java-version: 11
-          cache: "maven"
       - name: Java Style Check
         run: mvn checkstyle:check
       # Disable because of issues in lancedb rust core code
       # - name: Rust Clippy
       #   working-directory: java/core/lancedb-jni
       #   run: cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
-      - name: Running tests with Java 11
-        run: mvn clean test
       - name: Running tests with Java 17
         run: |
           export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="$JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS \
@@ -83,3 +110,4 @@ jobs:
           -Djdk.reflect.useDirectMethodHandle=false \
           -Dio.netty.tryReflectionSetAccessible=true"
           JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_17 mvn clean test
+  

.github/workflows/license-header-check.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: Check license headers
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - rust/**
+      - python/**
+      - nodejs/**
+      - java/**
+      - .github/workflows/license-header-check.yml
+jobs:
+  check-licenses:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install license-header-checker
+        working-directory: /tmp
+        run: |
+            curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lluissm/license-header-checker/master/install.sh | bash
+            mv /tmp/bin/license-header-checker /usr/local/bin/
+      - name: Check license headers (rust)
+        run: license-header-checker -a -v ./rust/license_header.txt ./ rs && [[ -z `git status -s` ]]
+      - name: Check license headers (python)
+        run: license-header-checker -a -v ./python/license_header.txt python py && [[ -z `git status -s` ]]
+      - name: Check license headers (typescript)
+        run: license-header-checker -a -v ./nodejs/license_header.txt nodejs ts && [[ -z `git status -s` ]]
+      - name: Check license headers (java)
+        run: license-header-checker -a -v ./nodejs/license_header.txt java java && [[ -z `git status -s` ]]

.github/workflows/make-release-commit.yml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ on:
         default: true
         type: boolean
       other:
-        description: 'Make a Node/Rust release'
+        description: 'Make a Node/Rust/Java release'
         required: true
         default: true
         type: boolean
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   make-release:
     # Creates tag and GH release. The GH release will trigger the build and release jobs.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     permissions:
       contents: write
     steps:
@@ -57,15 +57,14 @@ jobs:
           # trigger any workflows watching for new tags. See:
           # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/triggering-a-workflow#triggering-a-workflow-from-a-workflow
           token: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_RELEASE_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Validate Lance dependency is at stable version
+        if: ${{ inputs.type == 'stable' }}
+        run: python ci/validate_stable_lance.py
       - name: Set git configs for bumpversion
         shell: bash
         run: |
           git config user.name 'Lance Release'
           git config user.email 'lance-dev@lancedb.com'
-      - name: Set up Python 3.11
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: "3.11"
       - name: Bump Python version
         if: ${{ inputs.python }}
         working-directory: python
@@ -97,3 +96,7 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ !inputs.dry_run && inputs.other }}
         with:
           github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - uses: ./.github/workflows/update_package_lock_nodejs
+        if: ${{ !inputs.dry_run && inputs.other }}
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/nodejs.yml

@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ jobs:
         cargo clippy --all --all-features -- -D warnings
         npm ci
         npm run lint-ci
+    - name: Lint examples
+      working-directory: nodejs/examples
+      run: npm ci && npm run lint-ci
   linux:
     name: Linux (NodeJS ${{ matrix.node-version }})
     timeout-minutes: 30
@@ -91,6 +94,30 @@ jobs:
       env:
         S3_TEST: "1"
       run: npm run test
+    - name: Setup examples
+      working-directory: nodejs/examples
+      run: npm ci
+    - name: Test examples
+      working-directory: ./
+      env:
+        OPENAI_API_KEY: test
+        OPENAI_BASE_URL: http://0.0.0.0:8000
+      run: |
+        python ci/mock_openai.py &
+        cd nodejs/examples
+        npm test
+    - name: Check docs
+      run: |
+        # We run this as part of the job because the binary needs to be built
+        # first to export the types of the native code.
+        set -e
+        npm ci
+        npm run docs
+        if ! git diff --exit-code; then
+          echo "Docs need to be updated"
+          echo "Run 'npm run docs', fix any warnings, and commit the changes."
+          exit 1
+        fi
   macos:
     timeout-minutes: 30
     runs-on: "macos-14"

.github/workflows/npm-publish.yml

@@ -1,399 +1,32 @@
 name: NPM Publish
 
+env:
+  MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: '10.13'
+  CARGO_INCREMENTAL: '0'
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  id-token: write
+
 on:
   push:
+    branches:
+      - main
     tags:
       - "v*"
+  pull_request:
+    # This should trigger a dry run (we skip the final publish step)
+    paths:
+      - .github/workflows/npm-publish.yml
+      - Cargo.toml # Change in dependency frequently breaks builds
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  node:
-    name: vectordb Typescript
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # Only runs on tags that matches the make-release action
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    defaults:
-      run:
-        shell: bash
-        working-directory: node
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
-        with:
-          node-version: 20
-          cache: "npm"
-          cache-dependency-path: node/package-lock.json
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          sudo apt update
-          sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev
-      - name: Build
-        run: |
-          npm ci
-          npm run tsc
-          npm pack
-      - name: Upload Linux Artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: node-package
-          path: |
-            node/vectordb-*.tgz
-
-  node-macos:
-    name: vectordb ${{ matrix.config.arch }}
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        config:
-          - arch: x86_64-apple-darwin
-            runner: macos-13
-          - arch: aarch64-apple-darwin
-            # xlarge is implicitly arm64.
-            runner: macos-14
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.runner }}
-    # Only runs on tags that matches the make-release action
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Install system dependencies
-        run: brew install protobuf
-      - name: Install npm dependencies
-        run: |
-          cd node
-          npm ci
-      - name: Build MacOS native node modules
-        run: bash ci/build_macos_artifacts.sh ${{ matrix.config.arch }}
-      - name: Upload Darwin Artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: node-native-darwin-${{ matrix.config.arch }}
-          path: |
-            node/dist/lancedb-vectordb-darwin*.tgz
-
-  nodejs-macos:
-    name: lancedb ${{ matrix.config.arch }}
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        config:
-          - arch: x86_64-apple-darwin
-            runner: macos-13
-          - arch: aarch64-apple-darwin
-            # xlarge is implicitly arm64.
-            runner: macos-14
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.runner }}
-    # Only runs on tags that matches the make-release action
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Install system dependencies
-        run: brew install protobuf
-      - name: Install npm dependencies
-        run: |
-          cd nodejs
-          npm ci
-      - name: Build MacOS native nodejs modules
-        run: bash ci/build_macos_artifacts_nodejs.sh ${{ matrix.config.arch }}
-      - name: Upload Darwin Artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: nodejs-native-darwin-${{ matrix.config.arch }}
-          path: |
-            nodejs/dist/*.node
-
-  node-linux:
-    name: vectordb (${{ matrix.config.arch}}-unknown-linux-gnu)
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.runner }}
-    # Only runs on tags that matches the make-release action
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        config:
-          - arch: x86_64
-            runner: ubuntu-latest
-          - arch: aarch64
-            # For successful fat LTO builds, we need a large runner to avoid OOM errors.
-            runner: warp-ubuntu-latest-arm64-4x
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      # To avoid OOM errors on ARM, we create a swap file.
-      - name: Configure aarch64 build
-        if: ${{ matrix.config.arch == 'aarch64' }}
-        run: |
-          free -h
-          sudo fallocate -l 16G /swapfile
-          sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
-          sudo mkswap /swapfile
-          sudo swapon /swapfile
-          echo "/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0" >> sudo /etc/fstab
-          # print info
-          swapon --show
-          free -h
-      - name: Build Linux Artifacts
-        run: |
-          bash ci/build_linux_artifacts.sh ${{ matrix.config.arch }}
-      - name: Upload Linux Artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: node-native-linux-${{ matrix.config.arch }}
-          path: |
-            node/dist/lancedb-vectordb-linux*.tgz
-
-  nodejs-linux:
-    name: lancedb (${{ matrix.config.arch}}-unknown-linux-gnu
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.runner }}
-    # Only runs on tags that matches the make-release action
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        config:
-          - arch: x86_64
-            runner: ubuntu-latest
-          - arch: aarch64
-            # For successful fat LTO builds, we need a large runner to avoid OOM errors.
-            runner: buildjet-16vcpu-ubuntu-2204-arm
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      # Buildjet aarch64 runners have only 1.5 GB RAM per core, vs 3.5 GB per core for
-      # x86_64 runners. To avoid OOM errors on ARM, we create a swap file.
-      - name: Configure aarch64 build
-        if: ${{ matrix.config.arch == 'aarch64' }}
-        run: |
-          free -h
-          sudo fallocate -l 16G /swapfile
-          sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
-          sudo mkswap /swapfile
-          sudo swapon /swapfile
-          echo "/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0" >> sudo /etc/fstab
-          # print info
-          swapon --show
-          free -h
-      - name: Build Linux Artifacts
-        run: |
-          bash ci/build_linux_artifacts_nodejs.sh ${{ matrix.config.arch }}
-      - name: Upload Linux Artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: nodejs-native-linux-${{ matrix.config.arch }}
-          path: |
-            nodejs/dist/*.node
-      # The generic files are the same in all distros so we just pick
-      # one to do the upload.
-      - name: Upload Generic Artifacts
-        if: ${{ matrix.config.arch == 'x86_64' }}
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: nodejs-dist
-          path: |
-            nodejs/dist/*
-            !nodejs/dist/*.node
-
-  node-windows:
-    name: vectordb ${{ matrix.target }}
-    runs-on: windows-2022
-    # Only runs on tags that matches the make-release action
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        target: [x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Install Protoc v21.12
-        working-directory: C:\
-        run: |
-          New-Item -Path 'C:\protoc' -ItemType Directory
-          Set-Location C:\protoc
-          Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v21.12/protoc-21.12-win64.zip -OutFile C:\protoc\protoc.zip
-          7z x protoc.zip
-          Add-Content $env:GITHUB_PATH "C:\protoc\bin"
-        shell: powershell
-      - name: Install npm dependencies
-        run: |
-          cd node
-          npm ci
-      - name: Build Windows native node modules
-        run: .\ci\build_windows_artifacts.ps1 ${{ matrix.target }}
-      - name: Upload Windows Artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: node-native-windows
-          path: |
-            node/dist/lancedb-vectordb-win32*.tgz
-
-  nodejs-windows:
-    name: lancedb ${{ matrix.target }}
-    runs-on: windows-2022
-    # Only runs on tags that matches the make-release action
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        target: [x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Install Protoc v21.12
-        working-directory: C:\
-        run: |
-          New-Item -Path 'C:\protoc' -ItemType Directory
-          Set-Location C:\protoc
-          Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v21.12/protoc-21.12-win64.zip -OutFile C:\protoc\protoc.zip
-          7z x protoc.zip
-          Add-Content $env:GITHUB_PATH "C:\protoc\bin"
-        shell: powershell
-      - name: Install npm dependencies
-        run: |
-          cd nodejs
-          npm ci
-      - name: Build Windows native node modules
-        run: .\ci\build_windows_artifacts_nodejs.ps1 ${{ matrix.target }}
-      - name: Upload Windows Artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: nodejs-native-windows
-          path: |
-            nodejs/dist/*.node
-
-  release:
-    name: vectordb NPM Publish
-    needs: [node, node-macos, node-linux, node-windows]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # Only runs on tags that matches the make-release action
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          pattern: node-*
-      - name: Display structure of downloaded files
-        run: ls -R
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
-        with:
-          node-version: 20
-          registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org"
-      - name: Publish to NPM
-        env:
-          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_NPM_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
-        run: |
-          # Tag beta as "preview" instead of default "latest". See lancedb 
-          # npm publish step for more info.
-          if [[ $GITHUB_REF =~ refs/tags/v(.*)-beta.* ]]; then
-            PUBLISH_ARGS="--tag preview"
-          fi
-
-          mv */*.tgz .
-          for filename in *.tgz; do
-            npm publish $PUBLISH_ARGS $filename
-          done
-      - name: Notify Slack Action
-        uses: ravsamhq/notify-slack-action@2.3.0
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        with:
-          status: ${{ job.status }}
-          notify_when: "failure"
-          notification_title: "{workflow} is failing"
-        env:
-          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.ACTION_MONITORING_SLACK }}
-
-  release-nodejs:
-    name: lancedb NPM Publish
-    needs: [nodejs-macos, nodejs-linux, nodejs-windows]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # Only runs on tags that matches the make-release action
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    defaults:
-      run:
-        shell: bash
-        working-directory: nodejs
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: nodejs-dist
-          path: nodejs/dist
-      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        name: Download arch-specific binaries
-        with:
-          pattern: nodejs-*
-          path: nodejs/nodejs-artifacts
-          merge-multiple: true
-      - name: Display structure of downloaded files
-        run: find .
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
-        with:
-          node-version: 20
-          registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org"
-      - name: Install napi-rs
-        run: npm install -g @napi-rs/cli
-      - name: Prepare artifacts
-        run: npx napi artifacts -d nodejs-artifacts
-      - name: Display structure of staged files
-        run: find npm
-      - name: Publish to NPM
-        env:
-          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_NPM_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
-        # By default, things are published to the latest tag. This is what is
-        # installed by default if the user does not specify a version. This is
-        # good for stable releases, but for pre-releases, we want to publish to
-        # the "preview" tag so they can install with `npm install lancedb@preview`.
-        # See: https://medium.com/@mbostock/prereleases-and-npm-e778fc5e2420
-        run: |
-          if [[ $GITHUB_REF =~ refs/tags/v(.*)-beta.* ]]; then
-            npm publish --access public --tag preview
-          else
-            npm publish --access public
-          fi
-      - name: Notify Slack Action
-        uses: ravsamhq/notify-slack-action@2.3.0
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        with:
-          status: ${{ job.status }}
-          notify_when: "failure"
-          notification_title: "{workflow} is failing"
-        env:
-          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.ACTION_MONITORING_SLACK }}
-
-  update-package-lock:
-    needs: [release]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          ref: main
-          persist-credentials: false
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          lfs: true
-      - uses: ./.github/workflows/update_package_lock
-        with:
-          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
-  update-package-lock-nodejs:
-    needs: [release-nodejs]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          ref: main
-          persist-credentials: false
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          lfs: true
-      - uses: ./.github/workflows/update_package_lock_nodejs
-        with:
-          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
   gh-release:
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
       contents: write
@@ -458,3 +91,476 @@ jobs:
           generate_release_notes: false
           name: Node/Rust LanceDB v${{ steps.extract_version.outputs.version }}
           body: ${{ steps.release_notes.outputs.changelog }}
+
+  build-lancedb:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        settings:
+          - target: x86_64-apple-darwin
+            host: macos-latest
+            features: ","
+            pre_build: |-
+                brew install protobuf
+                rustup target add x86_64-apple-darwin
+          - target: aarch64-apple-darwin
+            host: macos-latest
+            features: fp16kernels
+            pre_build: brew install protobuf
+          - target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+            host: windows-latest
+            features: ","
+            pre_build: |-
+              choco install --no-progress protoc ninja nasm
+              tail -n 1000 /c/ProgramData/chocolatey/logs/chocolatey.log
+              # There is an issue where choco doesn't add nasm to the path
+              export PATH="$PATH:/c/Program Files/NASM"
+              nasm -v
+          - target: aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
+            host: windows-latest
+            features: ","
+            pre_build: |-
+                choco install --no-progress protoc
+                rustup target add aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
+          - target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
+            host: ubuntu-latest
+            features: fp16kernels
+            # https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs/blob/main/debian.Dockerfile
+            docker: ghcr.io/napi-rs/napi-rs/nodejs-rust:lts-debian
+            pre_build: |-
+              set -e &&
+              apt-get update &&
+              apt-get install -y protobuf-compiler pkg-config
+          - target: x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
+            # This one seems to need some extra memory
+            host: ubuntu-2404-8x-x64
+            # https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs/blob/main/alpine.Dockerfile
+            docker: ghcr.io/napi-rs/napi-rs/nodejs-rust:lts-alpine
+            features: fp16kernels
+            pre_build: |-
+              set -e &&
+              apk add protobuf-dev curl &&
+              ln -s /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/14.2.0/crtbeginS.o /usr/lib/crtbeginS.o &&
+              ln -s /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/libgcc.so &&
+              CC=gcc &&
+              CXX=g++
+          - target: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
+            host: ubuntu-2404-8x-x64
+            # https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs/blob/main/debian-aarch64.Dockerfile
+            docker: ghcr.io/napi-rs/napi-rs/nodejs-rust:lts-debian-aarch64
+            features: "fp16kernels"
+            pre_build: |-
+              set -e &&
+              apt-get update &&
+              apt-get install -y protobuf-compiler pkg-config &&
+              # https://github.com/aws/aws-lc-rs/issues/737#issuecomment-2725918627
+              ln -s /usr/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.8.5/crtbeginS.o /usr/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib/crtbeginS.o &&
+              ln -s /usr/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/gcc /usr/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib/gcc &&
+              rustup target add aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
+          - target: aarch64-unknown-linux-musl
+            host: ubuntu-2404-8x-x64
+            # https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs/blob/main/alpine.Dockerfile
+            docker: ghcr.io/napi-rs/napi-rs/nodejs-rust:lts-alpine
+            features: ","
+            pre_build: |-
+              set -e &&
+              apk add protobuf-dev &&
+              rustup target add aarch64-unknown-linux-musl &&
+              export CC_aarch64_unknown_linux_musl=aarch64-linux-musl-gcc &&
+              export CXX_aarch64_unknown_linux_musl=aarch64-linux-musl-g++
+    name: build - ${{ matrix.settings.target }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.settings.host }}
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: nodejs
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        if: ${{ !matrix.settings.docker }}
+        with:
+          node-version: 20
+          cache: npm
+          cache-dependency-path: nodejs/package-lock.json
+      - name: Install
+        uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
+        if: ${{ !matrix.settings.docker }}
+        with:
+          toolchain: stable
+          targets: ${{ matrix.settings.target }}
+      - name: Cache cargo
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/.cargo/registry/index/
+            ~/.cargo/registry/cache/
+            ~/.cargo/git/db/
+            .cargo-cache
+            target/
+          key: nodejs-${{ matrix.settings.target }}-cargo-${{ matrix.settings.host }}
+      - name: Setup toolchain
+        run: ${{ matrix.settings.setup }}
+        if: ${{ matrix.settings.setup }}
+        shell: bash
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: npm ci
+      - name: Build in docker
+        uses: addnab/docker-run-action@v3
+        if: ${{ matrix.settings.docker }}
+        with:
+          image: ${{ matrix.settings.docker }}
+          options: "--user 0:0 -v ${{ github.workspace }}/.cargo-cache/git/db:/usr/local/cargo/git/db \
+                    -v ${{ github.workspace }}/.cargo/registry/cache:/usr/local/cargo/registry/cache \
+                    -v ${{ github.workspace }}/.cargo/registry/index:/usr/local/cargo/registry/index \
+                    -v ${{ github.workspace }}:/build -w /build/nodejs"
+          run: |
+            set -e
+            ${{ matrix.settings.pre_build }}
+            npx napi build --platform  --release --no-const-enum \
+              --features ${{ matrix.settings.features }} \
+              --target ${{ matrix.settings.target }} \
+              --dts ../lancedb/native.d.ts \
+              --js ../lancedb/native.js \
+              --strip \
+              dist/
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          ${{ matrix.settings.pre_build }}
+          npx napi build --platform  --release --no-const-enum \
+              --features ${{ matrix.settings.features }} \
+              --target ${{ matrix.settings.target }} \
+              --dts ../lancedb/native.d.ts \
+              --js ../lancedb/native.js \
+              --strip \
+              $EXTRA_ARGS \
+              dist/
+        if: ${{ !matrix.settings.docker }}
+        shell: bash
+      - name: Upload artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: lancedb-${{ matrix.settings.target }}
+          path: nodejs/dist/*.node
+          if-no-files-found: error
+      # The generic files are the same in all distros so we just pick
+      # one to do the upload.
+      - name: Make generic artifacts
+        if: ${{ matrix.settings.target == 'aarch64-apple-darwin' }}
+        run: npm run tsc
+      - name: Upload Generic Artifacts
+        if: ${{ matrix.settings.target == 'aarch64-apple-darwin' }}
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: nodejs-dist
+          path: |
+            nodejs/dist/*
+            !nodejs/dist/*.node
+  test-lancedb:
+    name: "Test: ${{ matrix.settings.target }} - node@${{ matrix.node }}"
+    needs:
+      - build-lancedb
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        settings:
+          # TODO: Get tests passing on Windows (failing from test tmpdir issue)
+          # - host: windows-latest
+          #   target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+          - host: macos-latest
+            target: aarch64-apple-darwin
+          - target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
+            host: ubuntu-latest
+          - target: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
+            host: buildjet-16vcpu-ubuntu-2204-arm
+        node:
+          - '20'
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.settings.host }}
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: nodejs
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
+          cache: npm
+          cache-dependency-path: nodejs/package-lock.json
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: npm ci
+      - name: Download artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: lancedb-${{ matrix.settings.target }}
+          path: nodejs/dist/
+          # For testing purposes:
+          # run-id: 13982782871
+          # github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # token with actions:read permissions on target repo
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: nodejs-dist
+          path: nodejs/dist
+          # For testing purposes:
+          # github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # token with actions:read permissions on target repo
+          # run-id: 13982782871
+      - name: List packages
+        run: ls -R dist
+      - name: Move built files
+        run: cp dist/native.d.ts dist/native.js dist/*.node lancedb/
+      - name: Test bindings
+        run: npm test
+  publish:
+    name: Publish
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: nodejs
+    needs:
+      - test-lancedb
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: 20
+          cache: npm
+          cache-dependency-path: nodejs/package-lock.json
+          registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org"
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: npm ci
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: nodejs-dist
+          path: nodejs/dist
+          # For testing purposes:
+          # run-id: 13982782871
+          # github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # token with actions:read permissions on target repo
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        name: Download arch-specific binaries
+        with:
+          pattern: lancedb-*
+          path: nodejs/nodejs-artifacts
+          merge-multiple: true
+          # For testing purposes:
+          # run-id: 13982782871
+          # github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # token with actions:read permissions on target repo
+      - name: Display structure of downloaded files
+        run: find dist && find nodejs-artifacts
+      - name: Move artifacts
+        run: npx napi artifacts -d nodejs-artifacts
+      - name: List packages
+        run: find npm
+      - name: Publish
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_NPM_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
+          DRY_RUN: ${{ !startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
+        run: |
+          ARGS="--access public"
+          if [[ $DRY_RUN == "true" ]]; then
+            ARGS="$ARGS --dry-run"
+          fi
+          if [[ $GITHUB_REF =~ refs/tags/v(.*)-beta.* ]]; then
+            ARGS="$ARGS --tag preview"
+          fi
+          npm publish $ARGS
+
+
+  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  # vectordb release (legacy)
+  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  # TODO: delete this when we drop vectordb
+  node:
+    name: vectordb Typescript
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: node
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        with:
+          node-version: 20
+          cache: "npm"
+          cache-dependency-path: node/package-lock.json
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt update
+          sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          npm ci
+          npm run tsc
+          npm pack
+      - name: Upload Linux Artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: node-package
+          path: |
+            node/vectordb-*.tgz
+
+  node-macos:
+    name: vectordb ${{ matrix.config.arch }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        config:
+          - arch: x86_64-apple-darwin
+            runner: macos-13
+          - arch: aarch64-apple-darwin
+            # xlarge is implicitly arm64.
+            runner: macos-14
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.runner }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        run: brew install protobuf
+      - name: Install npm dependencies
+        run: |
+          cd node
+          npm ci
+      - name: Build MacOS native node modules
+        run: bash ci/build_macos_artifacts.sh ${{ matrix.config.arch }}
+      - name: Upload Darwin Artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: node-native-darwin-${{ matrix.config.arch }}
+          path: |
+            node/dist/lancedb-vectordb-darwin*.tgz
+
+  node-linux-gnu:
+    name: vectordb (${{ matrix.config.arch}}-unknown-linux-gnu)
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.runner }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        config:
+          - arch: x86_64
+            runner: ubuntu-latest
+          - arch: aarch64
+            # For successful fat LTO builds, we need a large runner to avoid OOM errors.
+            runner: warp-ubuntu-latest-arm64-4x
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      # To avoid OOM errors on ARM, we create a swap file.
+      - name: Configure aarch64 build
+        if: ${{ matrix.config.arch == 'aarch64' }}
+        run: |
+          free -h
+          sudo fallocate -l 16G /swapfile
+          sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
+          sudo mkswap /swapfile
+          sudo swapon /swapfile
+          echo "/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0" >> sudo /etc/fstab
+          # print info
+          swapon --show
+          free -h
+      - name: Build Linux Artifacts
+        run: |
+          bash ci/build_linux_artifacts.sh ${{ matrix.config.arch }} ${{ matrix.config.arch }}-unknown-linux-gnu
+      - name: Upload Linux Artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: node-native-linux-${{ matrix.config.arch }}-gnu
+          path: |
+            node/dist/lancedb-vectordb-linux*.tgz
+
+  node-windows:
+    name: vectordb ${{ matrix.target }}
+    runs-on: windows-2022
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        target: [x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install Protoc v21.12
+        working-directory: C:\
+        run: |
+          New-Item -Path 'C:\protoc' -ItemType Directory
+          Set-Location C:\protoc
+          Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v21.12/protoc-21.12-win64.zip -OutFile C:\protoc\protoc.zip
+          7z x protoc.zip
+          Add-Content $env:GITHUB_PATH "C:\protoc\bin"
+        shell: powershell
+      - name: Install npm dependencies
+        run: |
+          cd node
+          npm ci
+      - name: Build Windows native node modules
+        run: .\ci\build_windows_artifacts.ps1 ${{ matrix.target }}
+      - name: Upload Windows Artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: node-native-windows
+          path: |
+            node/dist/lancedb-vectordb-win32*.tgz
+
+  release:
+    name: vectordb NPM Publish
+    needs: [node, node-macos, node-linux-gnu, node-windows]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Only runs on tags that matches the make-release action
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          pattern: node-*
+      - name: Display structure of downloaded files
+        run: ls -R
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        with:
+          node-version: 20
+          registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org"
+      - name: Publish to NPM
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_NPM_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          # Tag beta as "preview" instead of default "latest". See lancedb
+          # npm publish step for more info.
+          if [[ $GITHUB_REF =~ refs/tags/v(.*)-beta.* ]]; then
+            PUBLISH_ARGS="--tag preview"
+          fi
+
+          mv */*.tgz .
+          for filename in *.tgz; do
+            npm publish $PUBLISH_ARGS $filename
+          done
+      - name: Deprecate
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_NPM_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
+        # We need to deprecate the old package to avoid confusion.
+        # Each time we publish a new version, it gets undeprecated.
+        run: npm deprecate vectordb "Use @lancedb/lancedb instead."
+      - name: Notify Slack Action
+        uses: ravsamhq/notify-slack-action@2.3.0
+        if: ${{ always() }}
+        with:
+          status: ${{ job.status }}
+          notify_when: "failure"
+          notification_title: "{workflow} is failing"
+        env:
+          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.ACTION_MONITORING_SLACK }}
+
+  update-package-lock:
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+    needs: [release]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: main
+          token: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_RELEASE_TOKEN }}
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          lfs: true
+      - uses: ./.github/workflows/update_package_lock
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yml

@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ on:
   push:
     tags:
       - 'python-v*'
+  pull_request:
+    # This should trigger a dry run (we skip the final publish step)
+    paths:
+      - .github/workflows/pypi-publish.yml
+      - Cargo.toml # Change in dependency frequently breaks builds
 
 jobs:
   linux:
@@ -15,15 +20,21 @@ jobs:
           - platform: x86_64
             manylinux: "2_17"
             extra_args: ""
+            runner: ubuntu-22.04
           - platform: x86_64
             manylinux: "2_28"
             extra_args: "--features fp16kernels"
+            runner: ubuntu-22.04
           - platform: aarch64
-            manylinux: "2_24"
+            manylinux: "2_17"
             extra_args: ""
-          # We don't build fp16 kernels for aarch64, because it uses 
+            # For successful fat LTO builds, we need a large runner to avoid OOM errors.
-          # cross compilation image, which doesn't have a new enough compiler.
+            runner: ubuntu-2404-8x-arm64
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
+          - platform: aarch64
+            manylinux: "2_28"
+            extra_args: "--features fp16kernels"
+            runner: ubuntu-2404-8x-arm64
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.runner }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
@@ -40,6 +51,7 @@ jobs:
           arm-build: ${{ matrix.config.platform == 'aarch64' }}
           manylinux: ${{ matrix.config.manylinux }}
       - uses: ./.github/workflows/upload_wheel
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/python-v')
         with:
           pypi_token: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
           fury_token: ${{ secrets.FURY_TOKEN }}
@@ -69,6 +81,7 @@ jobs:
           python-minor-version: 8
           args: "--release --strip --target ${{ matrix.config.target }} --features fp16kernels"
       - uses: ./.github/workflows/upload_wheel
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/python-v')
         with:
           pypi_token: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
           fury_token: ${{ secrets.FURY_TOKEN }}
@@ -83,17 +96,19 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.12
       - uses: ./.github/workflows/build_windows_wheel
         with:
           python-minor-version: 8
           args: "--release --strip"
           vcpkg_token: ${{ secrets.VCPKG_GITHUB_PACKAGES }}
       - uses: ./.github/workflows/upload_wheel
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/python-v')
         with:
           pypi_token: ${{ secrets.LANCEDB_PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
           fury_token: ${{ secrets.FURY_TOKEN }}
   gh-release:
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/python-v')
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
       contents: write

.github/workflows/python.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
+env:
+  # Color output for pytest is off by default.
+  PYTEST_ADDOPTS: "--color=yes"
+  FORCE_COLOR: "1"
+
 jobs:
   lint:
     name: "Lint"
@@ -30,16 +35,17 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.11"
+          python-version: "3.12"
       - name: Install ruff
         run: |
-          pip install ruff==0.5.4
+          pip install ruff==0.9.9
       - name: Format check
         run: ruff format --check .
       - name: Lint
         run: ruff check .
-  doctest:
+
-    name: "Doctest"
+  type-check:
+    name: "Type Check"
     timeout-minutes: 30
     runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
     defaults:
@@ -54,7 +60,36 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.11"
+          python-version: "3.12"
+      - name: Install protobuf compiler
+        run: |
+          sudo apt update
+          sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler
+          pip install toml
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python ../ci/parse_requirements.py pyproject.toml --extras dev,tests,embeddings > requirements.txt
+          pip install -r requirements.txt
+      - name: Run pyright
+        run: pyright
+
+  doctest:
+    name: "Doctest"
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-24.04"
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: python
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          lfs: true
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
           cache: "pip"
       - name: Install protobuf
         run: |
@@ -75,8 +110,8 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 30
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-minor-version: ["9", "11"]
+        python-minor-version: ["9", "12"]
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-24.04"
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash
@@ -101,6 +136,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: ./.github/workflows/run_tests
         with:
           integration: true
+      - name: Test without pylance or pandas
+        run: |
+          pip uninstall -y pylance pandas
+          pytest -vv python/tests/test_table.py
       # Make sure wheels are not included in the Rust cache
       - name: Delete wheels
         run: rm -rf target/wheels
@@ -127,7 +166,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.11"
+          python-version: "3.12"
       - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
         with:
           workspaces: python
@@ -138,7 +177,7 @@ jobs:
         run: rm -rf target/wheels
   windows:
     name: "Windows: ${{ matrix.config.name }}"
-    timeout-minutes: 30
+    timeout-minutes: 60
     strategy:
       matrix:
         config:
@@ -157,7 +196,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.11"
+          python-version: "3.12"
       - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
         with:
           workspaces: python
@@ -168,7 +207,7 @@ jobs:
         run: rm -rf target/wheels
   pydantic1x:
     timeout-minutes: 30
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-24.04"
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash

.github/workflows/rust.yml

@@ -22,19 +22,19 @@ env:
   # "1" means line tables only, which is useful for panic tracebacks.
   RUSTFLAGS: "-C debuginfo=1"
   RUST_BACKTRACE: "1"
+  CARGO_INCREMENTAL: 0
 
 jobs:
   lint:
     timeout-minutes: 30
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash
-        working-directory: rust
     env:
       # Need up-to-date compilers for kernels
-      CC: gcc-12
+      CC: clang-18
-      CXX: g++-12
+      CXX: clang++-18
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
@@ -50,21 +50,49 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run format
         run: cargo fmt --all -- --check
       - name: Run clippy
-      run: cargo clippy --all --all-features -- -D warnings
+        run: cargo clippy --workspace --tests --all-features -- -D warnings
+
+  build-no-lock:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    env:
+      # Need up-to-date compilers for kernels
+      CC: clang
+      CXX: clang++
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      # Building without a lock file often requires the latest Rust version since downstream
+      # dependencies may have updated their minimum Rust version.
+      - uses: actions-rust-lang/setup-rust-toolchain@v1
+        with:
+          toolchain: "stable"
+      # Remove cargo.lock to force a fresh build
+      - name: Remove Cargo.lock
+        run: rm -f Cargo.lock
+      - uses: rui314/setup-mold@v1
+      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt update
+          sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev
+      - name: Build all
+        run: |
+          cargo build --benches --all-features --tests
+
   linux:
     timeout-minutes: 30
     # To build all features, we need more disk space than is available
-    # on the GitHub-provided runner. This is mostly due to the the
+    # on the free OSS github runner. This is mostly due to the the
     # sentence-transformers feature.
-    runs-on: warp-ubuntu-latest-x64-4x
+    runs-on: ubuntu-2404-4x-x64
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash
         working-directory: rust
     env:
       # Need up-to-date compilers for kernels
-      CC: gcc-12
+      CC: clang-18
-      CXX: g++-12
+      CXX: clang++-18
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
@@ -75,17 +103,27 @@ jobs:
           workspaces: rust
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          sudo apt update
+          # This shaves 2 minutes off this step in CI. This doesn't seem to be
+          # necessary in standard runners, but it is in the 4x runners.
+          sudo rm /var/lib/man-db/auto-update
           sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev
+      - uses: rui314/setup-mold@v1
+      - name: Make Swap
+        run: |
+          sudo fallocate -l 16G /swapfile
+          sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
+          sudo mkswap /swapfile
+          sudo swapon /swapfile
       - name: Start S3 integration test environment
         working-directory: .
         run: docker compose up --detach --wait
       - name: Build
-      run: cargo build --all-features
+        run: cargo build --all-features --tests --locked --examples
       - name: Run tests
-      run: cargo test --all-features
+        run: cargo test --all-features --locked
       - name: Run examples
-      run: cargo run --example simple
+        run: cargo run --example simple --locked
+
   macos:
     timeout-minutes: 30
     strategy:
@@ -108,29 +146,78 @@ jobs:
           workspaces: rust
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: brew install protobuf
-      - name: Build
-        run: cargo build --all-features
       - name: Run tests
-        # Run with everything except the integration tests.
+        run: |
-        run: cargo test --features remote,fp16kernels
+          # Don't run the s3 integration tests since docker isn't available
+          # on this image.
+          ALL_FEATURES=`cargo metadata --format-version=1 --no-deps \
+            | jq -r '.packages[] | .features | keys | .[]' \
+            | grep -v s3-test | sort | uniq | paste -s -d "," -`
+          cargo test --features $ALL_FEATURES --locked
+
   windows:
     runs-on: windows-2022
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        target:
+        - x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+        - aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: rust/lancedb
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
         with:
           workspaces: rust
       - name: Install Protoc v21.12
-        working-directory: C:\
+        run: choco install --no-progress protoc
+      - name: Build
         run: |
-          New-Item -Path 'C:\protoc' -ItemType Directory
+          rustup target add ${{ matrix.target }}
-          Set-Location C:\protoc
+          $env:VCPKG_ROOT = $env:VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT
-          Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v21.12/protoc-21.12-win64.zip -OutFile C:\protoc\protoc.zip
+          cargo build --features remote --tests --locked --target ${{ matrix.target }}
-          7z x protoc.zip
-          Add-Content $env:GITHUB_PATH "C:\protoc\bin"
-        shell: powershell
       - name: Run tests
+        # Can only run tests when target matches host
+        if: ${{ matrix.target == 'x86_64-pc-windows-msvc' }}
         run: |
           $env:VCPKG_ROOT = $env:VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT
-          cargo build
+          cargo test --features remote --locked
-          cargo test
+
+  msrv:
+    # Check the minimum supported Rust version
+    name: MSRV Check - Rust v${{ matrix.msrv }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        msrv: ["1.78.0"] # This should match up with rust-version in Cargo.toml
+    env:
+      # Need up-to-date compilers for kernels
+      CC: clang-18
+      CXX: clang++-18
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt update
+          sudo apt install -y protobuf-compiler libssl-dev
+      - name: Install ${{ matrix.msrv }}
+        uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@master
+        with:
+          toolchain: ${{ matrix.msrv }}
+      - name: Downgrade  dependencies
+        # These packages have newer requirements for MSRV
+        run: |
+          cargo update -p aws-sdk-bedrockruntime --precise 1.64.0
+          cargo update -p aws-sdk-dynamodb --precise 1.55.0
+          cargo update -p aws-config --precise 1.5.10
+          cargo update -p aws-sdk-kms --precise 1.51.0
+          cargo update -p aws-sdk-s3 --precise 1.65.0
+          cargo update -p aws-sdk-sso --precise 1.50.0
+          cargo update -p aws-sdk-ssooidc --precise 1.51.0
+          cargo update -p aws-sdk-sts --precise 1.51.0
+          cargo update -p home --precise 0.5.9
+      - name: cargo +${{ matrix.msrv }} check
+        run: cargo check --workspace --tests --benches --all-features

.github/workflows/upload_wheel/action.yml

@@ -17,11 +17,12 @@ runs:
     run: |
       python -m pip install --upgrade pip
       pip install twine
+      python3 -m pip install --upgrade pkginfo
   - name: Choose repo
     shell: bash
     id: choose_repo
     run: |
-      if [ ${{ github.ref }} == "*beta*" ]; then
+      if [[ ${{ github.ref }} == *beta* ]]; then
         echo "repo=fury" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
       else
         echo "repo=pypi" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ runs:
       FURY_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.fury_token }}
       PYPI_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.pypi_token }}
     run: |
-      if [ ${{ steps.choose_repo.outputs.repo }} == "fury" ]; then
+      if [[ ${{ steps.choose_repo.outputs.repo }} == fury ]]; then
         WHEEL=$(ls target/wheels/lancedb-*.whl 2> /dev/null | head -n 1)
         echo "Uploading $WHEEL to Fury"
         curl -f -F package=@$WHEEL https://$FURY_TOKEN@push.fury.io/lancedb/

.gitignore

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ venv
 .vscode
 .zed
 rust/target
-rust/Cargo.lock
 
 site
 
@@ -42,5 +41,3 @@ dist
 target
 
 **/sccache.log
-
-Cargo.lock

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -7,9 +7,15 @@ repos:
       - id: trailing-whitespace
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
     # Ruff version.
-    rev: v0.2.2
+    rev: v0.9.9
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
+  # - repo: https://github.com/RobertCraigie/pyright-python
+  #   rev: v1.1.395
+  #   hooks:
+  #     - id: pyright
+  #       args: ["--project", "python"]
+  #       additional_dependencies: [pyarrow-stubs]
   - repo: local
     hooks:
       - id: local-biome-check

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# Contributing to LanceDB
+
+LanceDB is an open-source project and we welcome contributions from the community.
+This document outlines the process for contributing to LanceDB.
+
+## Reporting Issues
+
+If you encounter a bug or have a feature request, please open an issue on the
+[GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb).
+
+## Picking an issue
+
+We track issues on the GitHub issue tracker. If you are looking for something to
+work on, check the [good first issue](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/contribute) label. These issues are typically the best described and have the smallest scope.
+
+If there's an issue you are interested in working on, please leave a comment on the issue. This will help us avoid duplicate work. Additionally, if you have questions about the issue, please ask them in the issue comments. We are happy to provide guidance on how to approach the issue.
+
+## Configuring Git
+
+First, fork the repository on GitHub, then clone your fork:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/<username>/lancedb.git
+cd lancedb
+```
+
+Then add the main repository as a remote:
+
+```bash
+git remote add upstream https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb.git
+git fetch upstream
+```
+
+## Setting up your development environment
+
+We have development environments for Python, Typescript, and Java. Each environment has its own setup instructions.
+
+* [Python](python/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+* [Typescript](nodejs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+<!-- TODO: add Java contributing guide -->
+* [Documentation](docs/README.md)
+
+
+## Best practices for pull requests
+
+For the best chance of having your pull request accepted, please follow these guidelines:
+
+1. Unit test all bug fixes and new features. Your code will not be merged if it
+   doesn't have tests.
+1. If you change the public API, update the documentation in the `docs` directory.
+1. Aim to minimize the number of changes in each pull request. Keep to solving
+   one problem at a time, when possible.
+1. Before marking a pull request ready-for-review, do a self review of your code.
+   Is it clear why you are making the changes? Are the changes easy to understand?
+1. Use [conventional commit messages](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/) as pull request titles. Examples:
+    * New feature: `feat: adding foo API`
+    * Bug fix: `fix: issue with foo API`
+    * Documentation change: `docs: adding foo API documentation`
+1. If your pull request is a work in progress, leave the pull request as a draft.
+   We will assume the pull request is ready for review when it is opened.
+1. When writing tests, test the error cases. Make sure they have understandable
+   error messages.
+
+## Project structure
+
+The core library is written in Rust. The Python, Typescript, and Java libraries
+are wrappers around the Rust library.
+
+* `src/lancedb`: Rust library source code
+* `python`: Python package source code
+* `nodejs`: Typescript package source code
+* `node`: **Deprecated** Typescript package source code
+* `java`: Java package source code
+* `docs`: Documentation source code
+
+## Release process
+
+For information on the release process, see: [release_process.md](release_process.md)

Cargo.toml

@@ -18,34 +18,58 @@ repository = "https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb"
 description = "Serverless, low-latency vector database for AI applications"
 keywords = ["lancedb", "lance", "database", "vector", "search"]
 categories = ["database-implementations"]
+rust-version = "1.78.0"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
-lance = { "version" = "=0.14.1", "features" = ["dynamodb"] }
+lance = { "version" = "=0.26.0", "features" = ["dynamodb"] }
-lance-index = { "version" = "=0.14.1" }
+lance-io = "=0.26.0"
-lance-linalg = { "version" = "=0.14.1" }
+lance-index = "=0.26.0"
-lance-testing = { "version" = "=0.14.1" }
+lance-linalg = "=0.26.0"
-lance-datafusion = { "version" = "=0.14.1" }
+lance-table = "=0.26.0"
+lance-testing = "=0.26.0"
+lance-datafusion = "=0.26.0"
+lance-encoding = "=0.26.0"
 # Note that this one does not include pyarrow
-arrow = { version = "51.0", optional = false }
+arrow = { version = "54.1", optional = false }
-arrow-array = "51.0"
+arrow-array = "54.1"
-arrow-data = "51.0"
+arrow-data = "54.1"
-arrow-ipc = "51.0"
+arrow-ipc = "54.1"
-arrow-ord = "51.0"
+arrow-ord = "54.1"
-arrow-schema = "51.0"
+arrow-schema = "54.1"
-arrow-arith = "51.0"
+arrow-arith = "54.1"
-arrow-cast = "51.0"
+arrow-cast = "54.1"
 async-trait = "0"
-chrono = "0.4.35"
+datafusion = { version = "46.0", default-features = false }
-datafusion-physical-plan = "37.1"
+datafusion-catalog = "46.0"
+datafusion-common = { version = "46.0", default-features = false }
+datafusion-execution = "46.0"
+datafusion-expr = "46.0"
+datafusion-physical-plan = "46.0"
+env_logger = "0.11"
 half = { "version" = "=2.4.1", default-features = false, features = [
     "num-traits",
 ] }
 futures = "0"
 log = "0.4"
-object_store = "0.9.0"
+moka = { version = "0.12", features = ["future"] }
+object_store = "0.11.0"
 pin-project = "1.0.7"
-snafu = "0.7.4"
+snafu = "0.8"
 url = "2"
 num-traits = "0.2"
+rand = "0.8"
 regex = "1.10"
 lazy_static = "1"
+semver = "1.0.25"
+
+# Temporary pins to work around downstream issues
+# https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/commit/2fddf85afcd20110ce783ed5b4cdeb82293da30b
+chrono = "=0.4.39"
+# https://github.com/RustCrypto/formats/issues/1684
+base64ct = "=1.6.0"
+
+# Workaround for: https://github.com/eira-fransham/crunchy/issues/13
+crunchy = "=0.2.2"
+
+# Workaround for: https://github.com/Lokathor/bytemuck/issues/306
+bytemuck_derive = ">=1.8.1, <1.9.0"

README.md

@@ -1,15 +1,24 @@
+<a href="https://cloud.lancedb.com" target="_blank">
+  <img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/92dad0a2-2a37-4ce1-b783-0d1b4f30a00c" alt="LanceDB Cloud Public Beta" width="100%" style="max-width: 100%;">
+</a>
+
 <div align="center">
 <p align="center">
 
-<img width="275" alt="LanceDB Logo" src="https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/assets/5846846/37d7c7ad-c2fd-4f56-9f16-fffb0d17c73a">
+<picture>
+  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ac270358-333e-4bea-a132-acefaa94040e">
+  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b864d814-0d29-4784-8fd9-807297c758c0">
+  <img alt="LanceDB Logo" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b864d814-0d29-4784-8fd9-807297c758c0" width=300>
+</picture>
 
-**Developer-friendly, database for multimodal AI**
+**Search More, Manage Less**
 
 <a href='https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main' target="_blank"><img alt='LanceDB' src='https://img.shields.io/badge/VectorDB_Recipes-100000?style=for-the-badge&logo=LanceDB&logoColor=white&labelColor=645cfb&color=645cfb'/></a>
 <a href='https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/' target="_blank"><img alt='lancdb' src='https://img.shields.io/badge/DOCS-100000?style=for-the-badge&logo=lancdb&logoColor=white&labelColor=645cfb&color=645cfb'/></a>
 [![Blog](https://img.shields.io/badge/Blog-12100E?style=for-the-badge&logoColor=white)](https://blog.lancedb.com/)
 [![Discord](https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-%235865F2.svg?style=for-the-badge&logo=discord&logoColor=white)](https://discord.gg/zMM32dvNtd)
 [![Twitter](https://img.shields.io/badge/Twitter-%231DA1F2.svg?style=for-the-badge&logo=Twitter&logoColor=white)](https://twitter.com/lancedb)
+[![Gurubase](https://img.shields.io/badge/Gurubase-Ask%20LanceDB%20Guru-006BFF?style=for-the-badge)](https://gurubase.io/g/lancedb)
 
 </p>
 
@@ -44,26 +53,24 @@ LanceDB's core is written in Rust 🦀 and is built using <a href="https://githu
 
 **Javascript**
 ```shell
-npm install vectordb
+npm install @lancedb/lancedb
 ```
 
 ```javascript
-const lancedb = require('vectordb');
+import * as lancedb from "@lancedb/lancedb";
-const db = await lancedb.connect('data/sample-lancedb');
 
-const table = await db.createTable({
+const db = await lancedb.connect("data/sample-lancedb");
-  name: 'vectors',
+const table = await db.createTable("vectors", [
-  data:  [
 	{ id: 1, vector: [0.1, 0.2], item: "foo", price: 10 },
-    { id: 2, vector: [1.1, 1.2], item: "bar", price: 50 }
+	{ id: 2, vector: [1.1, 1.2], item: "bar", price: 50 },
-  ]
+], {mode: 'overwrite'});
-})
 
-const query = table.search([0.1, 0.3]).limit(2);
+
-const results = await query.execute();
+const query = table.vectorSearch([0.1, 0.3]).limit(2);
+const results = await query.toArray();
 
 // You can also search for rows by specific criteria without involving a vector search.
-const rowsByCriteria = await table.search(undefined).where("price >= 10").execute();
+const rowsByCriteria = await table.query().where("price >= 10").toArray();
 ```
 
 **Python**
@@ -84,4 +91,4 @@ result = table.search([100, 100]).limit(2).to_pandas()
 
 ## Blogs, Tutorials & Videos
 * 📈 <a href="https://blog.lancedb.com/benchmarking-random-access-in-lance/">2000x better performance with Lance over Parquet</a>
-* 🤖 <a href="https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/blob/main/docs/src/notebooks/youtube_transcript_search.ipynb">Build a question and answer bot with LanceDB</a>
+* 🤖 <a href="https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/Youtube-Search-QA-Bot">Build a question and answer bot with LanceDB</a>

ci/build_linux_artifacts.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
 ARCH=${1:-x86_64}
+TARGET_TRIPLE=${2:-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu}
 
 # We pass down the current user so that when we later mount the local files
 # into the container, the files are accessible by the current user.
@@ -18,4 +19,4 @@ docker run \
     -v $(pwd):/io -w /io \
     --memory-swap=-1 \
     lancedb-node-manylinux \
-    bash ci/manylinux_node/build.sh $ARCH
+    bash ci/manylinux_node/build_vectordb.sh $ARCH $TARGET_TRIPLE

ci/build_linux_artifacts_nodejs.sh

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-ARCH=${1:-x86_64}
-
-# We pass down the current user so that when we later mount the local files
-# into the container, the files are accessible by the current user.
-pushd ci/manylinux_nodejs
-docker build \
-    -t lancedb-nodejs-manylinux \
-    --build-arg="ARCH=$ARCH" \
-    --build-arg="DOCKER_USER=$(id -u)" \
-    --progress=plain \
-    .
-popd
-
-# We turn on memory swap to avoid OOM killer
-docker run \
-    -v $(pwd):/io -w /io \
-    --memory-swap=-1 \
-    lancedb-nodejs-manylinux \
-    bash ci/manylinux_nodejs/build.sh $ARCH

ci/build_macos_artifacts_nodejs.sh

@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-# Builds the macOS artifacts (nodejs binaries).
-# Usage: ./ci/build_macos_artifacts_nodejs.sh [target]
-# Targets supported: x86_64-apple-darwin aarch64-apple-darwin
-set -e
-
-prebuild_rust() {
-    # Building here for the sake of easier debugging.
-    pushd rust/lancedb
-    echo "Building rust library for $1"
-    export RUST_BACKTRACE=1
-    cargo build --release --target $1
-    popd
-}
-
-build_node_binaries() {
-    pushd nodejs
-    echo "Building nodejs library for $1"
-    export RUST_TARGET=$1
-    npm run build-release
-    popd
-}
-
-if [ -n "$1" ]; then
-    targets=$1
-else
-    targets="x86_64-apple-darwin aarch64-apple-darwin"
-fi
-
-echo "Building artifacts for targets: $targets"
-for target in $targets
-    do
-    prebuild_rust $target
-    build_node_binaries $target
-done

ci/build_windows_artifacts.ps1

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # Targets supported:
 # - x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
 # - i686-pc-windows-msvc
+# - aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
 
 function Prebuild-Rust {
     param (
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ function Build-NodeBinaries {
 
 $targets = $args[0]
 if (-not $targets) {
-    $targets = "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"
+    $targets = "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc", "aarch64-pc-windows-msvc"
 }
 
 Write-Host "Building artifacts for targets: $targets"

ci/build_windows_artifacts_nodejs.ps1

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # Targets supported:
 # - x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
 # - i686-pc-windows-msvc
+# - aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
 
 function Prebuild-Rust {
     param (
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ function Build-NodeBinaries {
 
 $targets = $args[0]
 if (-not $targets) {
-    $targets = "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"
+    $targets = "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc", "aarch64-pc-windows-msvc"
 }
 
 Write-Host "Building artifacts for targets: $targets"

ci/manylinux_node/Dockerfile

@@ -4,15 +4,11 @@
 # range of linux distributions.
 ARG ARCH=x86_64
 
-FROM quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_${ARCH}
+FROM quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_${ARCH}
 
 ARG ARCH=x86_64
 ARG DOCKER_USER=default_user
 
-# Install static openssl
-COPY install_openssl.sh install_openssl.sh
-RUN ./install_openssl.sh ${ARCH} > /dev/null
-
 # Protobuf is also installed as root.
 COPY install_protobuf.sh install_protobuf.sh
 RUN ./install_protobuf.sh ${ARCH}

ci/manylinux_node/build.sh

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Builds the node module for manylinux. Invoked by ci/build_linux_artifacts.sh.
-set -e
-ARCH=${1:-x86_64}
-
-if [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
-    export OPENSSL_LIB_DIR=/usr/local/lib64/
-else 
-    export OPENSSL_LIB_DIR=/usr/local/lib/
-fi
-export OPENSSL_STATIC=1
-export OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/openssl
-
-source $HOME/.bashrc
-
-cd node
-npm ci
-npm run build-release
-npm run pack-build

ci/manylinux_node/build_vectordb.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Builds the node module for manylinux. Invoked by ci/build_linux_artifacts.sh.
+set -e
+ARCH=${1:-x86_64}
+TARGET_TRIPLE=${2:-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu}
+
+#Alpine doesn't have .bashrc
+FILE=$HOME/.bashrc && test -f $FILE && source $FILE
+
+cd node
+npm ci
+npm run build-release
+npm run pack-build -- -t $TARGET_TRIPLE

ci/manylinux_node/install_openssl.sh

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Builds openssl from source so we can statically link to it
-
-# this is to avoid the error we get with the system installation:
-# /usr/bin/ld: <library>: version node not found for symbol SSLeay@@OPENSSL_1.0.1
-# /usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
-set -e
-
-git clone -b OpenSSL_1_1_1u \
-    --single-branch \
-    https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git
-
-pushd openssl
-
-if [[ $1 == x86_64* ]]; then
-    ARCH=linux-x86_64
-else
-    # gnu target
-    ARCH=linux-aarch64
-fi
-
-./Configure no-shared $ARCH
-
-make
-
-make install

ci/manylinux_node/prepare_manylinux_node.sh

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ install_node() {
 
     source "$HOME"/.bashrc
 
-    nvm install --no-progress 16
+    nvm install --no-progress 18
 }
 
 install_rust() {

ci/manylinux_nodejs/Dockerfile

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Many linux dockerfile with Rust, Node, and Lance dependencies installed.
-# This container allows building the node modules native libraries in an
-# environment with a very old glibc, so that we are compatible with a wide
-# range of linux distributions.
-ARG ARCH=x86_64
-
-FROM quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_${ARCH}
-
-ARG ARCH=x86_64
-ARG DOCKER_USER=default_user
-
-# Install static openssl
-COPY install_openssl.sh install_openssl.sh
-RUN ./install_openssl.sh ${ARCH} > /dev/null
-
-# Protobuf is also installed as root.
-COPY install_protobuf.sh install_protobuf.sh
-RUN ./install_protobuf.sh ${ARCH}
-
-ENV DOCKER_USER=${DOCKER_USER}
-# Create a group and user
-RUN echo ${ARCH} && adduser --user-group --create-home --uid ${DOCKER_USER} build_user
-
-# We switch to the user to install Rust and Node, since those like to be
-# installed at the user level.
-USER ${DOCKER_USER}
-
-COPY prepare_manylinux_node.sh prepare_manylinux_node.sh
-RUN cp /prepare_manylinux_node.sh $HOME/ && \
-    cd $HOME && \
-    ./prepare_manylinux_node.sh ${ARCH}

ci/manylinux_nodejs/build.sh

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Builds the nodejs module for manylinux. Invoked by ci/build_linux_artifacts_nodejs.sh.
-set -e
-ARCH=${1:-x86_64}
-
-if [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
-    export OPENSSL_LIB_DIR=/usr/local/lib64/
-else
-    export OPENSSL_LIB_DIR=/usr/local/lib/
-fi
-export OPENSSL_STATIC=1
-export OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/openssl
-
-source $HOME/.bashrc
-
-cd nodejs
-npm ci
-npm run build-release

ci/manylinux_nodejs/install_openssl.sh

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Builds openssl from source so we can statically link to it
-
-# this is to avoid the error we get with the system installation:
-# /usr/bin/ld: <library>: version node not found for symbol SSLeay@@OPENSSL_1.0.1
-# /usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
-set -e
-
-git clone -b OpenSSL_1_1_1u \
-    --single-branch \
-    https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git
-
-pushd openssl
-
-if [[ $1 == x86_64* ]]; then
-    ARCH=linux-x86_64
-else
-    # gnu target
-    ARCH=linux-aarch64
-fi
-
-./Configure no-shared $ARCH
-
-make
-
-make install

ci/manylinux_nodejs/install_protobuf.sh

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Installs protobuf compiler. Should be run as root.
-set -e
-
-if [[ $1 == x86_64* ]]; then
-    ARCH=x86_64
-else
-    # gnu target
-    ARCH=aarch_64
-fi
-
-PB_REL=https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases
-PB_VERSION=23.1
-curl -LO $PB_REL/download/v$PB_VERSION/protoc-$PB_VERSION-linux-$ARCH.zip
-unzip protoc-$PB_VERSION-linux-$ARCH.zip -d /usr/local

ci/manylinux_nodejs/prepare_manylinux_node.sh

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-install_node() {
-    echo "Installing node..."
-
-    curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash
-
-    source "$HOME"/.bashrc
-
-    nvm install --no-progress 16
-}
-
-install_rust() {
-    echo "Installing rust..."
-    curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | bash -s -- -y
-    export PATH="$PATH:/root/.cargo/bin"
-}
-
-install_node
-install_rust

ci/mock_openai.py

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors
+"""A zero-dependency mock OpenAI embeddings API endpoint for testing purposes."""
+import argparse
+import json
+import http.server
+
+
+class MockOpenAIRequestHandler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def do_POST(self):
+        content_length = int(self.headers["Content-Length"])
+        post_data = self.rfile.read(content_length)
+        post_data = json.loads(post_data.decode("utf-8"))
+        # See: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/embeddings/create
+
+        if isinstance(post_data["input"], str):
+            num_inputs = 1
+        else:
+            num_inputs = len(post_data["input"])
+
+        model = post_data.get("model", "text-embedding-ada-002")
+
+        data = []
+        for i in range(num_inputs):
+            data.append({
+                "object": "embedding",
+                "embedding": [0.1] * 1536,
+                "index": i,
+            })
+
+        response = {
+            "object": "list",
+            "data": data,
+            "model": model,
+            "usage": {
+                "prompt_tokens": 0,
+                "total_tokens": 0,
+            }
+        }
+
+        self.send_response(200)
+        self.send_header("Content-type", "application/json")
+        self.end_headers()
+        self.wfile.write(json.dumps(response).encode("utf-8"))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Mock OpenAI embeddings API endpoint")
+    parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=8000, help="Port to listen on")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    port = args.port
+
+    print(f"server started on port {port}. Press Ctrl-C to stop.")
+    print(f"To use, set OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:{port} in your environment.")
+
+    with http.server.HTTPServer(("0.0.0.0", port), MockOpenAIRequestHandler) as server:
+        server.serve_forever()

ci/parse_requirements.py

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import argparse
+import toml
+
+
+def parse_dependencies(pyproject_path, extras=None):
+    with open(pyproject_path, "r") as file:
+        pyproject = toml.load(file)
+
+    dependencies = pyproject.get("project", {}).get("dependencies", [])
+    for dependency in dependencies:
+        print(dependency)
+
+    optional_dependencies = pyproject.get("project", {}).get(
+        "optional-dependencies", {}
+    )
+
+    if extras:
+        for extra in extras.split(","):
+            for dep in optional_dependencies.get(extra, []):
+                print(dep)
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Generate requirements.txt from pyproject.toml"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("path", type=str, help="Path to pyproject.toml")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--extras",
+        type=str,
+        help="Comma-separated list of extras to include",
+        default="",
+    )
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    parse_dependencies(args.path, args.extras)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

ci/sysroot-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# https://github.com/mstorsjo/msvc-wine/blob/master/vsdownload.py
+# https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/6027d1d91f2d3204a3992633b3ef730ff005fc64/build/vs/vs2022-car.yaml
+
+# function dl() {
+# 	curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/$1
+# }
+
+# [[.h]]
+
+# "id": "Win11SDK_10.0.26100"
+# "version": "10.0.26100.7"
+
+# libucrt.lib
+
+# example: <assert.h>
+# dir: ucrt/
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/2ee3a5fc6e9fc832af7295b138e93839/universal%20crt%20headers%20libraries%20and%20sources-x86_en-us.msi
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/b1aa09b90fe314aceb090f6ec7626624/16ab2ea2187acffa6435e334796c8c89.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/400609bb0ff5804e36dbe6dcd42a7f01/6ee7bbee8435130a869cf971694fd9e2.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/2ac327317abb865a0e3f56b2faefa918/78fa3c824c2c48bd4a49ab5969adaaf7.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/f034bc0b2680f67dccd4bfeea3d0f932/7afc7b670accd8e3cc94cfffd516f5cb.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/7ed5e12f9d50f80825a8b27838cf4c7f/96076045170fe5db6d5dcf14b6f6688e.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/764edc185a696bda9e07df8891dddbbb/a1e2a83aa8a71c48c742eeaff6e71928.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/66854bedc6dbd5ccb5dd82c8e2412231/b2f03f34ff83ec013b9e45c7cd8e8a73.cab
+
+# example: <windows.h>
+# dir: um/
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/b286efac4d83a54fc49190bddef1edc9/windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20headers-x86_en-us.msi
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/e0dc3811d92ab96fcb72bf63d6c08d71/766c0ffd568bbb31bf7fb6793383e24a.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/613503da4b5628768497822826aed39f/8125ee239710f33ea485965f76fae646.cab
+
+# example: <winapifamily.h>
+# dir: /shared
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/122979f0348d3a2a36b6aa1a111d5d0c/windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20headers%20onecoreuap-x86_en-us.msi
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/766e04beecdfccff39e91dd9eb32834a/e89e3dcbb016928c7e426238337d69eb.cab
+
+
+# "id": "Microsoft.VisualC.14.16.CRT.Headers"
+# "version": "14.16.27045"
+
+# example: <vcruntime.h>
+# dir: MSVC/
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/bac0afd7-cc9e-4182-8a83-9898fa20e092/87bbe41e09a2f83711e72696f49681429327eb7a4b90618c35667a6ba2e2880e/Microsoft.VisualC.14.16.CRT.Headers.vsix
+
+# [[.lib]]
+
+# advapi32.lib bcrypt.lib kernel32.lib ntdll.lib user32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib userenv.lib cfgmgr32.lib runtimeobject.lib
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/944c4153b849a1f7d0c0404a4f1c05ea/windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20libs-x86_en-us.msi
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/5306aed3e1a38d1e8bef5934edeb2a9b/05047a45609f311645eebcac2739fc4c.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/13c8a73a0f5a6474040b26d016a26fab/13d68b8a7b6678a368e2d13ff4027521.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/149578fb3b621cdb61ee1813b9b3e791/463ad1b0783ebda908fd6c16a4abfe93.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/5c986c4f393c6b09d5aec3b539e9fb4a/5a22e5cde814b041749fb271547f4dd5.cab
+
+# dbghelp.lib fwpuclnt.lib arm64rt.lib
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/7a332420d812f7c1d41da865ae5a7c52/windows%20sdk%20desktop%20libs%20arm64-x86_en-us.msi
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/19de98ed4a79938d0045d19c047936b3/3e2f7be479e3679d700ce0782e4cc318.cab
+
+# libcmt.lib libvcruntime.lib
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/bac0afd7-cc9e-4182-8a83-9898fa20e092/227f40682a88dc5fa0ccb9cadc9ad30af99ad1f1a75db63407587d079f60d035/Microsoft.VisualC.14.16.CRT.ARM64.Desktop.vsix
+
+
+msiextract universal%20crt%20headers%20libraries%20and%20sources-x86_en-us.msi
+msiextract windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20headers-x86_en-us.msi
+msiextract windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20headers%20onecoreuap-x86_en-us.msi
+msiextract windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20libs-x86_en-us.msi
+msiextract windows%20sdk%20desktop%20libs%20arm64-x86_en-us.msi
+unzip -o Microsoft.VisualC.14.16.CRT.Headers.vsix
+unzip -o Microsoft.VisualC.14.16.CRT.ARM64.Desktop.vsix
+
+mkdir -p /usr/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/include
+mkdir -p /usr/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/lib
+
+# lowercase folder/file names
+echo "$(find . -regex ".*/[^/]*[A-Z][^/]*")" | xargs -I{} sh -c 'mv "$(echo "{}" | sed -E '"'"'s/(.*\/)/\L\1/'"'"')" "$(echo "{}" | tr [A-Z] [a-z])"'
+
+# .h
+(cd 'program files/windows kits/10/include/10.0.26100.0' && cp -r ucrt/* um/* shared/* -t /usr/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/include)
+
+cp -r contents/vc/tools/msvc/14.16.27023/include/* /usr/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/include
+
+# lowercase #include "" and #include <>
+find /usr/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/include -type f -exec sed -i -E 's/(#include <[^<>]*?[A-Z][^<>]*?>)|(#include "[^"]*?[A-Z][^"]*?")/\L\1\2/' "{}" ';'
+
+# ARM intrinsics
+# original dir: MSVC/
+
+# '__n128x4' redefined in arm_neon.h
+# "arm64_neon.h" included from intrin.h
+
+(cd /usr/lib/llvm19/lib/clang/19/include && cp arm_neon.h intrin.h -t /usr/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/include)
+
+# .lib
+
+# _Interlocked intrinsics
+# must always link with arm64rt.lib
+# reason: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/libucrtlibstreamobj-error-lnk2001-unresolved-exter/1544787#T-ND1599818
+# I don't understand the 'correct' fix for this, arm64rt.lib is supposed to be the workaround
+
+(cd 'program files/windows kits/10/lib/10.0.26100.0/um/arm64' && cp advapi32.lib bcrypt.lib kernel32.lib ntdll.lib user32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib userenv.lib cfgmgr32.lib runtimeobject.lib dbghelp.lib fwpuclnt.lib arm64rt.lib -t /usr/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/lib)
+
+(cd 'contents/vc/tools/msvc/14.16.27023/lib/arm64' && cp libcmt.lib libvcruntime.lib -t /usr/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/lib)
+
+cp 'program files/windows kits/10/lib/10.0.26100.0/ucrt/arm64/libucrt.lib' /usr/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/lib

ci/sysroot-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# https://github.com/mstorsjo/msvc-wine/blob/master/vsdownload.py
+# https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/6027d1d91f2d3204a3992633b3ef730ff005fc64/build/vs/vs2022-car.yaml
+
+# function dl() {
+# 	curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/$1
+# }
+
+# [[.h]]
+
+# "id": "Win11SDK_10.0.26100"
+# "version": "10.0.26100.7"
+
+# libucrt.lib
+
+# example: <assert.h>
+# dir: ucrt/
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/2ee3a5fc6e9fc832af7295b138e93839/universal%20crt%20headers%20libraries%20and%20sources-x86_en-us.msi
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/b1aa09b90fe314aceb090f6ec7626624/16ab2ea2187acffa6435e334796c8c89.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/400609bb0ff5804e36dbe6dcd42a7f01/6ee7bbee8435130a869cf971694fd9e2.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/2ac327317abb865a0e3f56b2faefa918/78fa3c824c2c48bd4a49ab5969adaaf7.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/f034bc0b2680f67dccd4bfeea3d0f932/7afc7b670accd8e3cc94cfffd516f5cb.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/7ed5e12f9d50f80825a8b27838cf4c7f/96076045170fe5db6d5dcf14b6f6688e.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/764edc185a696bda9e07df8891dddbbb/a1e2a83aa8a71c48c742eeaff6e71928.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/66854bedc6dbd5ccb5dd82c8e2412231/b2f03f34ff83ec013b9e45c7cd8e8a73.cab
+
+# example: <windows.h>
+# dir: um/
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/b286efac4d83a54fc49190bddef1edc9/windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20headers-x86_en-us.msi
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/e0dc3811d92ab96fcb72bf63d6c08d71/766c0ffd568bbb31bf7fb6793383e24a.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/613503da4b5628768497822826aed39f/8125ee239710f33ea485965f76fae646.cab
+
+# example: <winapifamily.h>
+# dir: /shared
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/122979f0348d3a2a36b6aa1a111d5d0c/windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20headers%20onecoreuap-x86_en-us.msi
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/766e04beecdfccff39e91dd9eb32834a/e89e3dcbb016928c7e426238337d69eb.cab
+
+
+# "id": "Microsoft.VisualC.14.16.CRT.Headers"
+# "version": "14.16.27045"
+
+# example: <vcruntime.h>
+# dir: MSVC/
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/bac0afd7-cc9e-4182-8a83-9898fa20e092/87bbe41e09a2f83711e72696f49681429327eb7a4b90618c35667a6ba2e2880e/Microsoft.VisualC.14.16.CRT.Headers.vsix
+
+# [[.lib]]
+
+# advapi32.lib bcrypt.lib kernel32.lib ntdll.lib user32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib userenv.lib cfgmgr32.lib
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/944c4153b849a1f7d0c0404a4f1c05ea/windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20libs-x86_en-us.msi
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/5306aed3e1a38d1e8bef5934edeb2a9b/05047a45609f311645eebcac2739fc4c.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/13c8a73a0f5a6474040b26d016a26fab/13d68b8a7b6678a368e2d13ff4027521.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/149578fb3b621cdb61ee1813b9b3e791/463ad1b0783ebda908fd6c16a4abfe93.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/5c986c4f393c6b09d5aec3b539e9fb4a/5a22e5cde814b041749fb271547f4dd5.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/bfc3904a0195453419ae4dfea7abd6fb/e10768bb6e9d0ea730280336b697da66.cab
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/637f9f3be880c71f9e3ca07b4d67345c/f9b24c8280986c0683fbceca5326d806.cab
+
+# dbghelp.lib fwpuclnt.lib
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/9f51690d5aa804b1340ce12d1ec80f89/windows%20sdk%20desktop%20libs%20x64-x86_en-us.msi
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/32863b8d-a46d-4231-8e84-0888519d20a9/d3a7df4ca3303a698640a29e558a5e5b/58314d0646d7e1a25e97c902166c3155.cab
+
+# libcmt.lib libvcruntime.lib
+curl -O https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/bac0afd7-cc9e-4182-8a83-9898fa20e092/8728f21ae09940f1f4b4ee47b4a596be2509e2a47d2f0c83bbec0ea37d69644b/Microsoft.VisualC.14.16.CRT.x64.Desktop.vsix
+
+
+msiextract universal%20crt%20headers%20libraries%20and%20sources-x86_en-us.msi
+msiextract windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20headers-x86_en-us.msi
+msiextract windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20headers%20onecoreuap-x86_en-us.msi
+msiextract windows%20sdk%20for%20windows%20store%20apps%20libs-x86_en-us.msi
+msiextract windows%20sdk%20desktop%20libs%20x64-x86_en-us.msi
+unzip -o Microsoft.VisualC.14.16.CRT.Headers.vsix
+unzip -o Microsoft.VisualC.14.16.CRT.x64.Desktop.vsix
+
+mkdir -p /usr/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/include
+mkdir -p /usr/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/lib
+
+# lowercase folder/file names
+echo "$(find . -regex ".*/[^/]*[A-Z][^/]*")" | xargs -I{} sh -c 'mv "$(echo "{}" | sed -E '"'"'s/(.*\/)/\L\1/'"'"')" "$(echo "{}" | tr [A-Z] [a-z])"'
+
+# .h
+(cd 'program files/windows kits/10/include/10.0.26100.0' && cp -r ucrt/* um/* shared/* -t /usr/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/include)
+
+cp -r contents/vc/tools/msvc/14.16.27023/include/* /usr/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/include
+
+# lowercase #include "" and #include <>
+find /usr/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/include -type f -exec sed -i -E 's/(#include <[^<>]*?[A-Z][^<>]*?>)|(#include "[^"]*?[A-Z][^"]*?")/\L\1\2/' "{}" ';'
+
+# x86 intrinsics
+# original dir: MSVC/
+
+# '_mm_movemask_epi8' defined in emmintrin.h
+# '__v4sf' defined in xmmintrin.h
+# '__v2si' defined in mmintrin.h
+# '__m128d' redefined in immintrin.h
+# '__m128i' redefined in intrin.h
+# '_mm_comlt_epu8' defined in ammintrin.h
+
+(cd /usr/lib/llvm19/lib/clang/19/include && cp emmintrin.h xmmintrin.h mmintrin.h immintrin.h intrin.h ammintrin.h -t /usr/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/include)
+
+# .lib
+(cd 'program files/windows kits/10/lib/10.0.26100.0/um/x64' && cp advapi32.lib bcrypt.lib kernel32.lib ntdll.lib user32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib userenv.lib cfgmgr32.lib dbghelp.lib fwpuclnt.lib -t /usr/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/lib)
+
+(cd 'contents/vc/tools/msvc/14.16.27023/lib/x64' && cp libcmt.lib libvcruntime.lib -t /usr/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/lib)
+
+cp 'program files/windows kits/10/lib/10.0.26100.0/ucrt/x64/libucrt.lib' /usr/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/usr/lib

ci/validate_stable_lance.py

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import tomllib
+
+found_preview_lance = False
+
+with open("Cargo.toml", "rb") as f:
+    cargo_data = tomllib.load(f)
+
+    for name, dep in cargo_data["workspace"]["dependencies"].items():
+        if name == "lance" or name.startswith("lance-"):
+            if isinstance(dep, str):
+                version = dep
+            elif isinstance(dep, dict):
+                # Version doesn't have the beta tag in it, so we instead look
+                # at the git tag.
+                version = dep.get('tag', dep.get('version'))
+            else:
+                raise ValueError("Unexpected type for dependency: " + str(dep))
+
+            if "beta" in version:
+                found_preview_lance = True
+                print(f"Dependency '{name}' is a preview version: {version}")
+
+with open("python/pyproject.toml", "rb") as f:
+    py_proj_data = tomllib.load(f)
+
+    for dep in py_proj_data["project"]["dependencies"]:
+        if dep.startswith("pylance"):
+            if "b" in dep:
+                found_preview_lance = True
+                print(f"Dependency '{dep}' is a preview version")
+            break  # Only one pylance dependency
+
+if found_preview_lance:
+    raise ValueError("Found preview version of Lance in dependencies")

docs/README.md

@@ -2,43 +2,88 @@
 
 LanceDB docs are deployed to https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/.
 
-Docs is built and deployed automatically by [Github Actions](.github/workflows/docs.yml)
+Docs is built and deployed automatically by [Github Actions](../.github/workflows/docs.yml)
 whenever a commit is pushed to the `main` branch. So it is possible for the docs to show
 unreleased features.
 
 ## Building the docs
 
 ### Setup
-1. Install LanceDB. From LanceDB repo root: `pip install -e python`
+1. Install LanceDB Python. See setup in [Python contributing guide](../python/CONTRIBUTING.md).
-2. Install dependencies. From LanceDB repo root: `pip install -r docs/requirements.txt`
+   Run `make develop` to install the Python package.
-3. Make sure you have node and npm setup
+2. Install documentation dependencies. From LanceDB repo root: `pip install -r docs/requirements.txt`
-4. Make sure protobuf and libssl are installed
 
-### Building node module and create markdown files
+### Preview the docs
 
-See [Javascript docs README](./src/javascript/README.md)
+```shell
-
-### Build docs
-From LanceDB repo root:
-
-Run: `PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs build -f docs/mkdocs.yml`
-
-If successful, you should see a `docs/site` directory that you can verify locally.
-
-### Run local server
-
-You can run a local server to test the docs prior to deployment by navigating to the `docs` directory and running the following command:
-
-```bash
 cd docs
 mkdocs serve
 ```
 
-### Run doctest for typescript example
+If you want to just generate the HTML files:
 
-```bash
+```shell
-cd lancedb/docs
+PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs build -f docs/mkdocs.yml
-npm i
+```
-npm run build
+
-npm run all
+If successful, you should see a `docs/site` directory that you can verify locally.
+
+## Adding examples
+
+To make sure examples are correct, we put examples in test files so they can be
+run as part of our test suites.
+
+You can see the tests are at:
+
+* Python: `python/python/tests/docs`
+* Typescript: `nodejs/examples/`
+
+### Checking python examples
+
+```shell
+cd python
+pytest -vv python/tests/docs
+```
+
+### Checking typescript examples
+
+The `@lancedb/lancedb` package must be built before running the tests:
+
+```shell
+pushd nodejs
+npm ci
+npm run build
+popd
+```
+
+Then you can run the examples by going to the `nodejs/examples` directory and
+running the tests like a normal npm package:
+
+```shell
+pushd nodejs/examples
+npm ci
+npm test
+popd
+```
+
+## API documentation
+
+### Python
+
+The Python API documentation is organized based on the file `docs/src/python/python.md`.
+We manually add entries there so we can control the organization of the reference page.
+**However, this means any new types must be manually added to the file.** No additional
+steps are needed to generate the API documentation.
+
+### Typescript
+
+The typescript API documentation is generated from the typescript source code using [typedoc](https://typedoc.org/).
+
+When new APIs are added, you must manually re-run the typedoc command to update the API documentation.
+The new files should be checked into the repository.
+
+```shell
+pushd nodejs
+npm run docs
+popd
 ```

docs/mkdocs.yml

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ repo_url: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
 edit_uri: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/tree/main/docs/src
 repo_name: lancedb/lancedb
 docs_dir: src
+watch:
+  - src
+  - ../python/python
 
 theme:
   name: "material"
@@ -26,6 +29,7 @@ theme:
     - content.code.copy
     - content.tabs.link
     - content.action.edit
+    - content.tooltips
     - toc.follow
     - navigation.top
     - navigation.tabs
@@ -33,8 +37,10 @@ theme:
     - navigation.footer
     - navigation.tracking
     - navigation.instant
+    - content.footnote.tooltips
   icon:
     repo: fontawesome/brands/github
+    annotation: material/arrow-right-circle
   custom_dir: overrides
 
 plugins:
@@ -52,10 +58,15 @@ plugins:
             show_signature_annotations: true
             show_root_heading: true
             members_order: source
+            docstring_section_style: list
+            signature_crossrefs: true
+            separate_signature: true
           import:
             # for cross references
             - https://arrow.apache.org/docs/objects.inv
             - https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/objects.inv
+            - https://lancedb.github.io/lance/objects.inv
+            - https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/objects.inv
   - mkdocs-jupyter
   - render_swagger:
       allow_arbitrary_locations: true
@@ -63,6 +74,11 @@ plugins:
 markdown_extensions:
   - admonition
   - footnotes
+  - pymdownx.critic
+  - pymdownx.caret
+  - pymdownx.keys
+  - pymdownx.mark
+  - pymdownx.tilde
   - pymdownx.details
   - pymdownx.highlight:
       anchor_linenums: true
@@ -76,7 +92,15 @@ markdown_extensions:
   - pymdownx.tabbed:
       alternate_style: true
   - md_in_html
+  - abbr
   - attr_list
+  - pymdownx.snippets
+  - pymdownx.emoji:
+      emoji_index: !!python/name:material.extensions.emoji.twemoji
+      emoji_generator: !!python/name:material.extensions.emoji.to_svg
+  - markdown.extensions.toc:
+      baselevel: 1
+      permalink: ""
 
 nav:
   - Home:
@@ -84,30 +108,54 @@ nav:
       - 🏃🏼‍♂️ Quick start: basic.md
       - 📚 Concepts:
           - Vector search: concepts/vector_search.md
-          - Indexing: concepts/index_ivfpq.md
+          - Indexing:
+              - IVFPQ: concepts/index_ivfpq.md
+              - HNSW: concepts/index_hnsw.md
           - Storage: concepts/storage.md
           - Data management: concepts/data_management.md
       - 🔨 Guides:
           - Working with tables: guides/tables.md
-          - Building an ANN index: ann_indexes.md
+          - Building a vector index: ann_indexes.md
           - Vector Search: search.md
-          - Full-text search: fts.md
+          - Full-text search (native): fts.md
+          - Full-text search (tantivy-based): fts_tantivy.md
+          - Building a scalar index: guides/scalar_index.md
           - Hybrid search:
               - Overview: hybrid_search/hybrid_search.md
               - Comparing Rerankers: hybrid_search/eval.md
               - Airbnb financial data example: notebooks/hybrid_search.ipynb
+          - Late interaction with MultiVector search:
+              - Overview: guides/multi-vector.md
+              - Example: notebooks/Multivector_on_LanceDB.ipynb
+          - RAG:
+              - Vanilla RAG: rag/vanilla_rag.md
+              - Multi-head RAG: rag/multi_head_rag.md
+              - Corrective RAG: rag/corrective_rag.md
+              - Agentic RAG: rag/agentic_rag.md
+              - Graph RAG: rag/graph_rag.md
+              - Self RAG: rag/self_rag.md
+              - Adaptive RAG: rag/adaptive_rag.md
+              - SFR RAG: rag/sfr_rag.md
+              - Advanced Techniques:
+                  - HyDE: rag/advanced_techniques/hyde.md
+                  - FLARE: rag/advanced_techniques/flare.md
           - Reranking:
               - Quickstart: reranking/index.md
               - Cohere Reranker: reranking/cohere.md
               - Linear Combination Reranker: reranking/linear_combination.md
+              - Reciprocal Rank Fusion Reranker: reranking/rrf.md
               - Cross Encoder Reranker: reranking/cross_encoder.md
               - ColBERT Reranker: reranking/colbert.md
               - Jina Reranker: reranking/jina.md
               - OpenAI Reranker: reranking/openai.md
+              - AnswerDotAi Rerankers: reranking/answerdotai.md
+              - Voyage AI Rerankers: reranking/voyageai.md
               - Building Custom Rerankers: reranking/custom_reranker.md
               - Example: notebooks/lancedb_reranking.ipynb
           - Filtering: sql.md
-          - Versioning & Reproducibility: notebooks/reproducibility.ipynb
+          - Versioning & Reproducibility:
+              - sync API: notebooks/reproducibility.ipynb
+              - async API: notebooks/reproducibility_async.ipynb
           - Configuring Storage: guides/storage.md
           - Migration Guide: migration.md
           - Tuning retrieval performance:
@@ -115,10 +163,29 @@ nav:
               - Reranking: guides/tuning_retrievers/2_reranking.md
               - Embedding fine-tuning: guides/tuning_retrievers/3_embed_tuning.md
       - 🧬 Managing embeddings:
-          - Overview: embeddings/index.md
+          - Understand Embeddings: embeddings/understanding_embeddings.md
+          - Get Started: embeddings/index.md
           - Embedding functions: embeddings/embedding_functions.md
-          - Available models: embeddings/default_embedding_functions.md
+          - Available models:
+              - Overview: embeddings/default_embedding_functions.md
+              - Text Embedding Functions:
+                  - Sentence Transformers: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/sentence_transformers.md
+                  - Huggingface Embedding Models: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/huggingface_embedding.md
+                  - Ollama Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/ollama_embedding.md
+                  - OpenAI Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/openai_embedding.md
+                  - Instructor Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/instructor_embedding.md
+                  - Gemini Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/gemini_embedding.md
+                  - Cohere Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/cohere_embedding.md
+                  - Jina Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/jina_embedding.md
+                  - AWS Bedrock Text Embedding Functions: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/aws_bedrock_embedding.md
+                  - IBM watsonx.ai Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/ibm_watsonx_ai_embedding.md
+                  - Voyage AI Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/voyageai_embedding.md
+              - Multimodal Embedding Functions:
+                  - OpenClip embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/openclip_embedding.md
+                  - Imagebind embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/imagebind_embedding.md
+                  - Jina Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/jina_multimodal_embedding.md
           - User-defined embedding functions: embeddings/custom_embedding_function.md
+          - Variables and secrets: embeddings/variables_and_secrets.md
           - "Example: Multi-lingual semantic search": notebooks/multi_lingual_example.ipynb
           - "Example: MultiModal CLIP Embeddings": notebooks/DisappearingEmbeddingFunction.ipynb
       - 🔌 Integrations:
@@ -136,14 +203,21 @@ nav:
           - Pydantic: python/pydantic.md
           - Voxel51: integrations/voxel51.md
           - PromptTools: integrations/prompttools.md
+          - dlt: integrations/dlt.md
+          - phidata: integrations/phidata.md
       - 🎯 Examples:
           - Overview: examples/index.md
           - 🐍 Python:
               - Overview: examples/examples_python.md
-              - YouTube Transcript Search: notebooks/youtube_transcript_search.ipynb
+              - Build From Scratch: examples/python_examples/build_from_scratch.md
-              - Documentation QA Bot using LangChain: notebooks/code_qa_bot.ipynb
+              - Multimodal: examples/python_examples/multimodal.md
-              - Multimodal search using CLIP: notebooks/multimodal_search.ipynb
+              - Rag: examples/python_examples/rag.md
-              - Example - Calculate CLIP Embeddings with Roboflow Inference: examples/image_embeddings_roboflow.md
+              - Vector Search: examples/python_examples/vector_search.md
+              - Chatbot: examples/python_examples/chatbot.md
+              - Evaluation: examples/python_examples/evaluations.md
+              - AI Agent: examples/python_examples/aiagent.md
+              - Recommender System: examples/python_examples/recommendersystem.md
+              - Miscellaneous:
                   - Serverless QA Bot with S3 and Lambda: examples/serverless_lancedb_with_s3_and_lambda.md
                   - Serverless QA Bot with Modal: examples/serverless_qa_bot_with_modal_and_langchain.md
           - 👾 JavaScript:
@@ -153,46 +227,66 @@ nav:
               - TransformersJS Embedding Search: examples/transformerjs_embedding_search_nodejs.md
           - 🦀 Rust:
               - Overview: examples/examples_rust.md
+      - 📓 Studies:
+          - ↗Improve retrievers with hybrid search and reranking: https://blog.lancedb.com/hybrid-search-and-reranking-report/
       - 💭 FAQs: faq.md
+      - 🔍 Troubleshooting: troubleshooting.md
       - ⚙️ API reference:
           - 🐍 Python: python/python.md
           - 👾 JavaScript (vectordb): javascript/modules.md
           - 👾 JavaScript (lancedb): js/globals.md
           - 🦀 Rust: https://docs.rs/lancedb/latest/lancedb/
-      - ☁️ LanceDB Cloud:
-          - Overview: cloud/index.md
-          - API reference:
-              - 🐍 Python: python/saas-python.md
-              - 👾 JavaScript: javascript/modules.md
-              - REST API: cloud/rest.md
 
   - Quick start: basic.md
   - Concepts:
       - Vector search: concepts/vector_search.md
-      - Indexing: concepts/index_ivfpq.md
+      - Indexing:
+          - IVFPQ: concepts/index_ivfpq.md
+          - HNSW: concepts/index_hnsw.md
       - Storage: concepts/storage.md
       - Data management: concepts/data_management.md
   - Guides:
       - Working with tables: guides/tables.md
       - Building an ANN index: ann_indexes.md
       - Vector Search: search.md
-      - Full-text search: fts.md
+      - Full-text search (native): fts.md
+      - Full-text search (tantivy-based): fts_tantivy.md
+      - Building a scalar index: guides/scalar_index.md
       - Hybrid search:
           - Overview: hybrid_search/hybrid_search.md
           - Comparing Rerankers: hybrid_search/eval.md
           - Airbnb financial data example: notebooks/hybrid_search.ipynb
+      - Late interaction with MultiVector search:
+          - Overview: guides/multi-vector.md
+          - Document search Example: notebooks/Multivector_on_LanceDB.ipynb
+      - RAG:
+          - Vanilla RAG: rag/vanilla_rag.md
+          - Multi-head RAG: rag/multi_head_rag.md
+          - Corrective RAG: rag/corrective_rag.md
+          - Agentic RAG: rag/agentic_rag.md
+          - Graph RAG: rag/graph_rag.md
+          - Self RAG: rag/self_rag.md
+          - Adaptive RAG: rag/adaptive_rag.md
+          - SFR RAG: rag/sfr_rag.md
+          - Advanced Techniques:
+              - HyDE: rag/advanced_techniques/hyde.md
+              - FLARE: rag/advanced_techniques/flare.md
       - Reranking:
           - Quickstart: reranking/index.md
           - Cohere Reranker: reranking/cohere.md
           - Linear Combination Reranker: reranking/linear_combination.md
+          - Reciprocal Rank Fusion Reranker: reranking/rrf.md
           - Cross Encoder Reranker: reranking/cross_encoder.md
           - ColBERT Reranker: reranking/colbert.md
           - Jina Reranker: reranking/jina.md
           - OpenAI Reranker: reranking/openai.md
+          - AnswerDotAi Rerankers: reranking/answerdotai.md
           - Building Custom Rerankers: reranking/custom_reranker.md
           - Example: notebooks/lancedb_reranking.ipynb
       - Filtering: sql.md
-      - Versioning & Reproducibility: notebooks/reproducibility.ipynb
+      - Versioning & Reproducibility:
+          - sync API: notebooks/reproducibility.ipynb
+          - async API: notebooks/reproducibility_async.ipynb
       - Configuring Storage: guides/storage.md
       - Migration Guide: migration.md
       - Tuning retrieval performance:
@@ -200,10 +294,28 @@ nav:
           - Reranking: guides/tuning_retrievers/2_reranking.md
           - Embedding fine-tuning: guides/tuning_retrievers/3_embed_tuning.md
   - Managing Embeddings:
-      - Overview: embeddings/index.md
+      - Understand Embeddings: embeddings/understanding_embeddings.md
+      - Get Started: embeddings/index.md
       - Embedding functions: embeddings/embedding_functions.md
-      - Available models: embeddings/default_embedding_functions.md
+      - Available models:
+          - Overview: embeddings/default_embedding_functions.md
+          - Text Embedding Functions:
+              - Sentence Transformers: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/sentence_transformers.md
+              - Huggingface Embedding Models: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/huggingface_embedding.md
+              - Ollama Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/ollama_embedding.md
+              - OpenAI Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/openai_embedding.md
+              - Instructor Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/instructor_embedding.md
+              - Gemini Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/gemini_embedding.md
+              - Cohere Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/cohere_embedding.md
+              - Jina Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/jina_embedding.md
+              - AWS Bedrock Text Embedding Functions: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/aws_bedrock_embedding.md
+              - IBM watsonx.ai Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/ibm_watsonx_ai_embedding.md
+          - Multimodal Embedding Functions:
+              - OpenClip embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/openclip_embedding.md
+              - Imagebind embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/imagebind_embedding.md
+              - Jina Embeddings: embeddings/available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/jina_multimodal_embedding.md
       - User-defined embedding functions: embeddings/custom_embedding_function.md
+      - Variables and secrets: embeddings/variables_and_secrets.md
       - "Example: Multi-lingual semantic search": notebooks/multi_lingual_example.ipynb
       - "Example: MultiModal CLIP Embeddings": notebooks/DisappearingEmbeddingFunction.ipynb
   - Integrations:
@@ -217,28 +329,39 @@ nav:
       - Pydantic: python/pydantic.md
       - Voxel51: integrations/voxel51.md
       - PromptTools: integrations/prompttools.md
+      - dlt: integrations/dlt.md
+      - phidata: integrations/phidata.md
   - Examples:
       - examples/index.md
-      - YouTube Transcript Search: notebooks/youtube_transcript_search.ipynb
+      - 🐍 Python:
-      - Documentation QA Bot using LangChain: notebooks/code_qa_bot.ipynb
+          - Overview: examples/examples_python.md
-      - Multimodal search using CLIP: notebooks/multimodal_search.ipynb
+          - Build From Scratch: examples/python_examples/build_from_scratch.md
+          - Multimodal: examples/python_examples/multimodal.md
+          - Rag: examples/python_examples/rag.md
+          - Vector Search: examples/python_examples/vector_search.md
+          - Chatbot: examples/python_examples/chatbot.md
+          - Evaluation: examples/python_examples/evaluations.md
+          - AI Agent: examples/python_examples/aiagent.md
+          - Recommender System: examples/python_examples/recommendersystem.md
+          - Miscellaneous:
               - Serverless QA Bot with S3 and Lambda: examples/serverless_lancedb_with_s3_and_lambda.md
               - Serverless QA Bot with Modal: examples/serverless_qa_bot_with_modal_and_langchain.md
-      - YouTube Transcript Search (JS): examples/youtube_transcript_bot_with_nodejs.md
+      - 👾 JavaScript:
-      - Serverless Chatbot from any website: examples/serverless_website_chatbot.md
+          - Overview: examples/examples_js.md
+          - Serverless Website Chatbot: examples/serverless_website_chatbot.md
+          - YouTube Transcript Search: examples/youtube_transcript_bot_with_nodejs.md
           - TransformersJS Embedding Search: examples/transformerjs_embedding_search_nodejs.md
+      - 🦀 Rust:
+          - Overview: examples/examples_rust.md
+  - Studies:
+      - studies/overview.md
+      - ↗Improve retrievers with hybrid search and reranking: https://blog.lancedb.com/hybrid-search-and-reranking-report/
   - API reference:
       - Overview: api_reference.md
       - Python: python/python.md
       - Javascript (vectordb): javascript/modules.md
       - Javascript (lancedb): js/globals.md
       - Rust: https://docs.rs/lancedb/latest/lancedb/index.html
-  - LanceDB Cloud:
-      - Overview: cloud/index.md
-      - API reference:
-          - 🐍 Python: python/saas-python.md
-          - 👾 JavaScript: javascript/modules.md
-          - REST API: cloud/rest.md
 
 extra_css:
   - styles/global.css
@@ -246,6 +369,7 @@ extra_css:
 
 extra_javascript:
   - "extra_js/init_ask_ai_widget.js"
+  - "extra_js/reo.js"
 
 extra:
   analytics:

docs/openapi.yml

@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ components:
       required: true
       schema:
         type: string
+    index_name:
+      name: index_name
+      in: path
+      description: name of the index
+      required: true
+      schema:
+        type: string
   responses:
     invalid_request:
       description: Invalid request
@@ -164,7 +171,7 @@ paths:
                 distance_type:
                   type: string
                   description: |
-                    The distance metric to use for search. L2, Cosine, Dot and Hamming are supported. Default is L2.
+                    The distance metric to use for search. l2, Cosine, Dot and Hamming are supported. Default is l2.
                 bypass_vector_index:
                   type: boolean
                   description: |
@@ -443,7 +450,7 @@ paths:
                   type: string
                   nullable: false
                   description: |
-                    The metric type to use for the index. L2, Cosine, Dot are supported.
+                    The metric type to use for the index. l2, Cosine, Dot are supported.
                 index_type:
                   type: string
       responses:
@@ -485,3 +492,22 @@ paths:
           $ref: "#/components/responses/unauthorized"
         "404":
           $ref: "#/components/responses/not_found"
+  /v1/table/{name}/index/{index_name}/drop/:
+    post:
+      description: Drop an index from the table
+      tags:
+        - Tables
+      summary: Drop an index from the table
+      operationId: dropIndex
+      parameters:
+        - $ref: "#/components/parameters/table_name"
+        - $ref: "#/components/parameters/index_name"
+      responses:
+        "200":
+          description: Index successfully dropped
+        "400":
+          $ref: "#/components/responses/invalid_request"
+        "401":
+          $ref: "#/components/responses/unauthorized"
+        "404":
+          $ref: "#/components/responses/not_found"

docs/package-lock.json

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     },
     "../node": {
       "name": "vectordb",
-      "version": "0.4.6",
+      "version": "0.12.0",
       "cpu": [
         "x64",
         "arm64"
@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@
         "win32"
       ],
       "dependencies": {
-        "@apache-arrow/ts": "^14.0.2",
         "@neon-rs/load": "^0.0.74",
-        "apache-arrow": "^14.0.2",
         "axios": "^1.4.0"
       },
       "devDependencies": {
@@ -46,6 +44,7 @@
         "@types/temp": "^0.9.1",
         "@types/uuid": "^9.0.3",
         "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^5.59.1",
+        "apache-arrow-old": "npm:apache-arrow@13.0.0",
         "cargo-cp-artifact": "^0.1",
         "chai": "^4.3.7",
         "chai-as-promised": "^7.1.1",
@@ -62,15 +61,19 @@
         "ts-node-dev": "^2.0.0",
         "typedoc": "^0.24.7",
         "typedoc-plugin-markdown": "^3.15.3",
-        "typescript": "*",
+        "typescript": "^5.1.0",
         "uuid": "^9.0.0"
       },
       "optionalDependencies": {
-        "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64": "0.4.6",
+        "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64": "0.12.0",
-        "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64": "0.4.6",
+        "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64": "0.12.0",
-        "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu": "0.4.6",
+        "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu": "0.12.0",
-        "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu": "0.4.6",
+        "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu": "0.12.0",
-        "@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc": "0.4.6"
+        "@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc": "0.12.0"
+      },
+      "peerDependencies": {
+        "@apache-arrow/ts": "^14.0.2",
+        "apache-arrow": "^14.0.2"
       }
     },
     "../node/node_modules/apache-arrow": {

docs/requirements.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 mkdocs==1.5.3
 mkdocs-jupyter==0.24.1
 mkdocs-material==9.5.3
-mkdocstrings[python]==0.20.0
+mkdocstrings[python]==0.25.2
+griffe
 mkdocs-render-swagger-plugin
 pydantic

docs/src/ann_indexes.md

@@ -18,24 +18,23 @@ See the [indexing](concepts/index_ivfpq.md) concepts guide for more information
 Lance supports `IVF_PQ` index type by default.
 
 === "Python"
+    === "Sync API"
 
         Creating indexes is done via the [create_index](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/python/#lancedb.table.LanceTable.create_index) method.
 
         ```python
-    import lancedb
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb"
-    import numpy as np
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-numpy"
-    uri = "data/sample-lancedb"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:create_ann_index"
-    db = lancedb.connect(uri)
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+        Creating indexes is done via the [create_index](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/python/#lancedb.table.LanceTable.create_index) method.
 
-    # Create 10,000 sample vectors
+        ```python
-    data = [{"vector": row, "item": f"item {i}"}
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb"
-        for i, row in enumerate(np.random.random((10_000, 1536)).astype('float32'))]
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-numpy"
-
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb-ivfpq"
-    # Add the vectors to a table
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:create_ann_index_async"
-    tbl = db.create_table("my_vectors", data=data)
-
-    # Create and train the index - you need to have enough data in the table for an effective training step
-    tbl.create_index(num_partitions=256, num_sub_vectors=96)
         ```
 
 === "TypeScript"
@@ -45,9 +44,9 @@ Lance supports `IVF_PQ` index type by default.
         Creating indexes is done via the [lancedb.Table.createIndex](../js/classes/Table.md/#createIndex) method.
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<--- "nodejs/examples/ann_indexes.ts:import"
+        --8<--- "nodejs/examples/ann_indexes.test.ts:import"
 
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/ann_indexes.ts:ingest"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/ann_indexes.test.ts:ingest"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@ Lance supports `IVF_PQ` index type by default.
 
 The following IVF_PQ paramters can be specified:
 
-- **distance_type**: The distance metric to use. By default it uses euclidean distance "`L2`".
+- **distance_type**: The distance metric to use. By default it uses euclidean distance "`l2`".
   We also support "cosine" and "dot" distance as well.
 - **num_partitions**: The number of partitions in the index. The default is the square root
   of the number of rows.
@@ -83,6 +82,7 @@ The following IVF_PQ paramters can be specified:
 - **num_sub_vectors**: The number of sub-vectors (M) that will be created during Product Quantization (PQ).
   For D dimensional vector, it will be divided into `M` subvectors with dimension `D/M`, each of which is replaced by
   a single PQ code. The default is the dimension of the vector divided by 16.
+- **num_bits**: The number of bits used to encode each sub-vector. Only 4 and 8 are supported. The higher the number of bits, the higher the accuracy of the index, also the slower search. The default is 8.
 
 !!! note
 
@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ You can specify the GPU device to train IVF partitions via
         accelerator="mps"
     )
     ```
+!!! note
+    GPU based indexing is not yet supported with our asynchronous client.
     
 Troubleshooting:
 
@@ -140,22 +142,26 @@ There are a couple of parameters that can be used to fine-tune the search:
 
 - **limit** (default: 10): The amount of results that will be returned
 - **nprobes** (default: 20): The number of probes used. A higher number makes search more accurate but also slower.<br/>
-  Most of the time, setting nprobes to cover 5-10% of the dataset should achieve high recall with low latency.<br/>
+  Most of the time, setting nprobes to cover 5-15% of the dataset should achieve high recall with low latency.<br/>
-  e.g., for 1M vectors divided up into 256 partitions, nprobes should be set to ~20-40.<br/>
+    - _For example_, For a dataset of 1 million vectors divided into 256 partitions, `nprobes` should be set to ~20-40. This value can be adjusted to achieve the optimal balance between search latency and search quality. <br/>
-  Note: nprobes is only applicable if an ANN index is present. If specified on a table without an ANN index, it is ignored.
+
 - **refine_factor** (default: None): Refine the results by reading extra elements and re-ranking them in memory.<br/>
   A higher number makes search more accurate but also slower. If you find the recall is less than ideal, try refine_factor=10 to start.<br/>
-  e.g., for 1M vectors divided into 256 partitions, if you're looking for top 20, then refine_factor=200 reranks the whole partition.<br/>
+    - _For example_, For a dataset of 1 million vectors divided into 256 partitions, setting the `refine_factor` to 200 will initially retrieve the top 4,000 candidates (top k * refine_factor) from all searched partitions. These candidates are then reranked to determine the final top 20 results.<br/>
-  Note: refine_factor is only applicable if an ANN index is present. If specified on a table without an ANN index, it is ignored.
+!!! note
+    Both `nprobes` and `refine_factor` are only applicable if an ANN index is present. If specified on a table without an ANN index, those parameters are ignored.
+
 
 === "Python"
+    === "Sync API"
 
         ```python
-    tbl.search(np.random.random((1536))) \
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:vector_search"
-        .limit(2) \
+        ```
-        .nprobes(20) \
+    === "Async API"
-        .refine_factor(10) \
+
-        .to_pandas()
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:vector_search_async"
         ```
 
     ```text
@@ -169,7 +175,7 @@ There are a couple of parameters that can be used to fine-tune the search:
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/ann_indexes.ts:search1"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/ann_indexes.test.ts:search1"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -193,9 +199,15 @@ The search will return the data requested in addition to the distance of each it
 You can further filter the elements returned by a search using a where clause.
 
 === "Python"
+    === "Sync API"
 
         ```python
-    tbl.search(np.random.random((1536))).where("item != 'item 1141'").to_pandas()
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:vector_search_with_filter"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:vector_search_async_with_filter"
         ```
 
 === "TypeScript"
@@ -203,7 +215,7 @@ You can further filter the elements returned by a search using a where clause.
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/ann_indexes.ts:search2"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/ann_indexes.test.ts:search2"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -218,10 +230,16 @@ You can select the columns returned by the query using a select clause.
 
 === "Python"
 
-    ```python
+    === "Sync API"
-    tbl.search(np.random.random((1536))).select(["vector"]).to_pandas()
-    ```
 
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:vector_search_with_select"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:vector_search_async_with_select"
+        ```
 
     ```text
                                                 vector _distance
@@ -235,7 +253,7 @@ You can select the columns returned by the query using a select clause.
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/ann_indexes.ts:search3"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/ann_indexes.test.ts:search3"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -275,7 +293,15 @@ Product quantization can lead to approximately `16 * sizeof(float32) / 1 = 64` t
 Higher number of partitions could lead to more efficient I/O during queries and better accuracy, but it takes much more time to train.
 On `SIFT-1M` dataset, our benchmark shows that keeping each partition 1K-4K rows lead to a good latency / recall.
 
-`num_sub_vectors` specifies how many Product Quantization (PQ) short codes to generate on each vector. Because
+`num_sub_vectors` specifies how many Product Quantization (PQ) short codes to generate on each vector. The number should be a factor of the vector dimension. Because
 PQ is a lossy compression of the original vector, a higher `num_sub_vectors` usually results in
-less space distortion, and thus yields better accuracy. However, a higher `num_sub_vectors` also causes heavier I/O and
+less space distortion, and thus yields better accuracy. However, a higher `num_sub_vectors` also causes heavier I/O and more PQ computation, and thus, higher latency. `dimension / num_sub_vectors` should be a multiple of 8 for optimum SIMD efficiency.
-more PQ computation, and thus, higher latency. `dimension / num_sub_vectors` should be a multiple of 8 for optimum SIMD efficiency.
+
+!!! note
+    if `num_sub_vectors` is set to be greater than the vector dimension, you will see errors like `attempt to divide by zero`
+
+### How to choose `m` and `ef_construction` for `IVF_HNSW_*` index?
+
+`m` determines the number of connections a new node establishes with its closest neighbors upon entering the graph. Typically, `m` falls within the range of 5 to 48. Lower `m` values are suitable for low-dimensional data or scenarios where recall is less critical. Conversely, higher `m` values are beneficial for high-dimensional data or when high recall is required. In essence, a larger `m` results in a denser graph with increased connectivity, but at the expense of higher memory consumption.
+
+`ef_construction` balances build speed and accuracy. Higher values increase accuracy but slow down the build process. A typical range is 150 to 300. For good search results, a minimum value of 100 is recommended. In most cases, setting this value above 500 offers no additional benefit. Ensure that `ef_construction` is always set to a value equal to or greater than `ef` in the search phase

docs/src/ann_indexes.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import * as vectordb from "vectordb";
 // --8<-- [end:import]
 
 (async () => {
+  console.log("ann_indexes.ts: start");
   // --8<-- [start:ingest]
   const db = await vectordb.connect("data/sample-lancedb");
 
@@ -49,5 +50,5 @@ import * as vectordb from "vectordb";
     .execute();
   // --8<-- [end:search3]
 
-  console.log("Ann indexes: done");
+  console.log("ann_indexes.ts: done");
 })();

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docs/src/basic.md

@@ -133,22 +133,23 @@ recommend switching to stable releases.
 ## Connect to a database
 
 === "Python"
+    === "Sync API"
 
         ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:imports"
-    --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:connect"
 
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:set_uri"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:connect"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:imports"
+
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:set_uri"
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:connect_async"
         ```
 
-    !!! note "Asynchronous Python API"
-
-        The asynchronous Python API is new and has some slight differences compared
-        to the synchronous API.  Feel free to start using the asynchronous version.
-        Once all features have migrated we will start to move the synchronous API to
-        use the same syntax as the asynchronous API.  To help with this migration we
-        have created a [migration guide](migration.md) detailing the differences.
-
 === "Typescript[^1]"
 
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
@@ -157,7 +158,7 @@ recommend switching to stable releases.
         import * as lancedb from "@lancedb/lancedb";
         import * as arrow from "apache-arrow";
 
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.ts:connect"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.test.ts:connect"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -191,19 +192,31 @@ table.
 
 === "Python"
 
-    ```python
-    --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:create_table"
-    --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:create_table_async"
-    ```
-
     If the table already exists, LanceDB will raise an error by default.
     If you want to overwrite the table, you can pass in `mode="overwrite"`
     to the `create_table` method.
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:create_table"
+        ```
+
         You can also pass in a pandas DataFrame directly:
 
         ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:create_table_pandas"
+        ```
+
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:create_table_async"
+        ```
+
+        You can also pass in a pandas DataFrame directly:
+
+        ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:create_table_async_pandas"
         ```
 
@@ -212,7 +225,7 @@ table.
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.ts:create_table"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.test.ts:create_table"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -255,8 +268,14 @@ similar to a `CREATE TABLE` statement in SQL.
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:create_empty_table"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:create_empty_table_async"
         ```
 
@@ -268,7 +287,7 @@ similar to a `CREATE TABLE` statement in SQL.
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.ts:create_empty_table"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.test.ts:create_empty_table"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -289,8 +308,14 @@ Once created, you can open a table as follows:
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:open_table"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:open_table_async"
         ```
 
@@ -298,7 +323,7 @@ Once created, you can open a table as follows:
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.ts:open_table"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.test.ts:open_table"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -318,8 +343,14 @@ If you forget the name of your table, you can always get a listing of all table
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:table_names"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:table_names_async"
         ```
 
@@ -327,7 +358,7 @@ If you forget the name of your table, you can always get a listing of all table
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.ts:table_names"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.test.ts:table_names"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -348,8 +379,14 @@ After a table has been created, you can always add more data to it as follows:
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:add_data"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:add_data_async"
         ```
 
@@ -357,7 +394,7 @@ After a table has been created, you can always add more data to it as follows:
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.ts:add_data"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.test.ts:add_data"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -378,8 +415,14 @@ Once you've embedded the query, you can find its nearest neighbors as follows:
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:vector_search"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:vector_search_async"
         ```
 
@@ -389,7 +432,7 @@ Once you've embedded the query, you can find its nearest neighbors as follows:
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.ts:vector_search"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.test.ts:vector_search"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -420,8 +463,14 @@ LanceDB allows you to create an ANN index on a table as follows:
 
 === "Python"
 
-    ```py
+    === "Sync API"
+
+        ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:create_index"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:create_index_async"
         ```
 
@@ -429,7 +478,7 @@ LanceDB allows you to create an ANN index on a table as follows:
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.ts:create_index"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.test.ts:create_index"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -459,8 +508,14 @@ This can delete any number of rows that match the filter.
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:delete_rows"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:delete_rows_async"
         ```
 
@@ -469,7 +524,7 @@ This can delete any number of rows that match the filter.
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.ts:delete_rows"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.test.ts:delete_rows"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -491,7 +546,10 @@ simple or complex as needed. To see what expressions are supported, see the
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
         Read more: [lancedb.table.Table.delete][]
+    === "Async API"
+        Read more: [lancedb.table.AsyncTable.delete][]
 
 === "Typescript[^1]"
 
@@ -513,8 +571,14 @@ Use the `drop_table()` method on the database to remove a table.
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:drop_table"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_basic.py:drop_table_async"
         ```
 
@@ -527,7 +591,7 @@ Use the `drop_table()` method on the database to remove a table.
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.ts:drop_table"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/basic.test.ts:drop_table"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -551,18 +615,25 @@ You can use the embedding API when working with embedding models. It automatical
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_embeddings_optional.py:imports"
+
         --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_embeddings_optional.py:openai_embeddings"
         ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        Coming soon to the async API.
+        https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/1938
 
 === "Typescript[^1]"
 
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```typescript
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/embedding.ts:imports"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/embedding.test.ts:imports"
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/embedding.ts:openai_embeddings"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/embedding.test.ts:openai_embeddings"
         ```
 
 === "Rust"
@@ -572,7 +643,7 @@ You can use the embedding API when working with embedding models. It automatical
     --8<-- "rust/lancedb/examples/openai.rs:openai_embeddings"
     ```
 
-Learn about using the existing integrations and creating custom embedding functions in the [embedding API guide](./embeddings/).
+Learn about using the existing integrations and creating custom embedding functions in the [embedding API guide](./embeddings/index.md).
 
 
 ## What's next

docs/src/basic_legacy.ts

@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ const example = async () => {
   // --8<-- [start:search]
   const query = await tbl.search([100, 100]).limit(2).execute();
   // --8<-- [end:search]
-  console.log(query);
 
   // --8<-- [start:delete]
   await tbl.delete('item = "fizz"');
@@ -119,8 +118,9 @@ const example = async () => {
 };
 
 async function main() {
+  console.log("basic_legacy.ts: start");
   await example();
-  console.log("Basic example: done");
+  console.log("basic_legacy.ts: done");
 }
 
 main();

docs/src/cloud/cloud_faq.md

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+This section provides answers to the most common questions asked about LanceDB Cloud. By following these guidelines, you can ensure a smooth, performant experience with LanceDB Cloud.
+
+### Should I reuse the database connection?
+Yes! It is recommended to establish a single database connection and maintain it throughout your interaction with the tables within. 
+
+LanceDB uses HTTP connections to communicate with the servers. By re-using the Connection object, you avoid the overhead of repeatedly establishing HTTP connections, significantly improving efficiency.
+
+### Should I re-use the `Table` object?
+`table = db.open_table()` should be called once and used for all subsequent table operations. If there are changes to the opened table, `table` always reflect the **latest version** of the data. 
+
+### What should I do if I need to search for rows by `id`?
+LanceDB Cloud currently does not support an ID or primary key column. You are recommended to add a 
+user-defined ID column. To significantly improve the query performance with SQL causes, a scalar BITMAP/BTREE index should be created on this column. 
+
+### What are the vector indexing types supported by LanceDB Cloud?
+We support `IVF_PQ` and `IVF_HNSW_SQ` as the `index_type` which is passed to `create_index`. LanceDB Cloud tunes the indexing parameters automatically to achieve the best tradeoff between query latency and query quality.
+
+### When I add new rows to a table, do I need to manually update the index?
+No! LanceDB Cloud triggers an asynchronous background job to index the new vectors.
+
+Even though indexing is asynchronous, your vectors will still be immediately searchable. LanceDB uses brute-force search to search over unindexed rows. This makes you new data is immediately available, but does increase latency temporarily. To disable the brute-force part of search, set the `fast_search` flag in your query to `true`.
+
+### Do I need to reindex the whole dataset if only a small portion of the data is deleted or updated?
+No! Similar to adding data to the table, LanceDB Cloud triggers an asynchronous background job to update the existing indices. Therefore, no action is needed from users and there is absolutely no 
+downtime expected.
+
+### How do I know whether an index has been created?
+While index creation in LanceDB Cloud is generally fast, querying immediately after a `create_index` call may result in errors. It's recommended to use `list_indices` to verify index creation before querying.
+
+### Why is my query latency higher than expected?
+Multiple factors can impact query latency. To reduce query latency, consider the following:
+- Send pre-warm queries: send a few queries to warm up the cache before an actual user query.
+- Check network latency: LanceDB Cloud is hosted in AWS `us-east-1` region. It is recommended to run queries from an EC2 instance that is in the same region.
+- Create scalar indices: If you are filtering on metadata, it is recommended to create scalar indices on those columns. This will speedup searches with metadata filtering. See [here](../guides/scalar_index.md) for more details on creating a scalar index.

docs/src/cloud/index.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 LanceDB Cloud is a SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution that runs serverless in the cloud, clearly separating storage from compute. It's designed to be highly scalable without breaking the bank. LanceDB Cloud is currently in private beta with general availability coming soon, but you can apply for early access with the private beta release by signing up below.
 
-[Try out LanceDB Cloud](https://noteforms.com/forms/lancedb-mailing-list-cloud-kty1o5?notionforms=1&utm_source=notionforms){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
+[Try out LanceDB Cloud (Public Beta)](https://cloud.lancedb.com){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
 
 ## Architecture
 

docs/src/concepts/index_hnsw.md

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+
+# Understanding HNSW index
+
+Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search is a method for finding data points near a given point in a dataset, though not always the exact nearest one. HNSW is one of the most accurate and fastest Approximate Nearest Neighbour search algorithms, It’s beneficial in high-dimensional spaces where finding the same nearest neighbor would be too slow and costly
+
+[Jump to usage](#usage)
+There are three main types of ANN search algorithms:
+
+* **Tree-based search algorithms**: Use a tree structure to organize and store data points.
+* **Hash-based search algorithms**: Use a specialized geometric hash table to store and manage data points. These algorithms typically focus on theoretical guarantees, and don't usually perform as well as the other approaches in practice.
+* **Graph-based search algorithms**: Use a graph structure to store data points, which can be a bit complex. 
+
+HNSW is a graph-based algorithm. All graph-based search algorithms rely on the idea of a k-nearest neighbor (or k-approximate nearest neighbor) graph, which we outline below.  
+HNSW also combines this with the ideas behind a classic 1-dimensional search data structure: the skip list.
+
+## k-Nearest Neighbor Graphs and k-approximate Nearest neighbor Graphs
+The k-nearest neighbor graph actually predates its use for ANN search. Its construction is quite simple:
+
+* Each vector in the dataset is given an associated vertex.
+* Each vertex has outgoing edges to its k nearest neighbors. That is, the k closest other vertices by Euclidean distance between the two corresponding vectors. This can be thought of as a "friend list" for the vertex.
+* For some applications (including nearest-neighbor search), the incoming edges are also added.
+
+Eventually, it was realized that the following greedy search method over such a graph typically results in good approximate nearest neighbors:
+
+* Given a query vector, start at some fixed "entry point" vertex (e.g. the approximate center node).
+* Look at that vertex's neighbors. If any of them are closer to the query vector than the current vertex, then move to that vertex.
+* Repeat until a local optimum is found.
+
+The above algorithm also generalizes to e.g. top 10 approximate nearest neighbors.
+
+Computing a k-nearest neighbor graph is actually quite slow, taking quadratic time in the dataset size. It was quickly realized that near-identical performance can be achieved using a k-approximate nearest neighbor graph. That is, instead of obtaining the k-nearest neighbors for each vertex, an approximate nearest neighbor search data structure is used to build much faster.  
+In fact, another data structure is not needed: This can be done "incrementally".
+That is, if you start with a k-ANN graph for n-1 vertices, you can extend it to a k-ANN graph for n vertices as well by using the graph to obtain the k-ANN for the new vertex.
+
+One downside of k-NN and k-ANN graphs alone is that one must typically build them with a large value of k to get decent results, resulting in a large index.
+
+
+## HNSW: Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds
+
+HNSW builds on k-ANN in two main ways:
+
+* Instead of getting the k-approximate nearest neighbors for a large value of k, it sparsifies the k-ANN graph using a carefully chosen "edge pruning" heuristic, allowing for the number of edges per vertex to be limited to a relatively small constant.
+* The "entry point" vertex is chosen dynamically using a recursively constructed data structure on a subset of the data, similarly to a skip list.
+
+This recursive structure can be thought of as separating into layers:
+
+* At the bottom-most layer, an k-ANN graph on the whole dataset is present.
+* At the second layer, a k-ANN graph on a fraction of the dataset (e.g. 10%) is present.
+* At the Lth layer, a k-ANN graph is present. It is over a (constant) fraction (e.g. 10%) of the vectors/vertices present in the L-1th layer.
+
+Then the greedy search routine operates as follows:
+
+* At the top layer (using an arbitrary vertex as an entry point), use the greedy local search routine on the k-ANN graph to get an approximate nearest neighbor at that layer.
+* Using the approximate nearest neighbor found in the previous layer as an entry point, find an approximate nearest neighbor in the next layer with the same method.
+* Repeat until the bottom-most layer is reached. Then use the entry point to find multiple nearest neighbors (e.g. top 10).
+
+
+## Usage
+
+There are three key parameters to set when constructing an HNSW index:
+
+* `metric`: Use an `l2` euclidean distance metric. We also support `dot` and `cosine` distance.
+* `m`: The number of neighbors to select for each vector in the HNSW graph.
+* `ef_construction`: The number of candidates to evaluate during the construction of the HNSW graph.
+
+
+We can combine the above concepts to understand how to build and query an HNSW index in LanceDB.
+
+### Construct index
+
+```python
+import lancedb
+import numpy as np
+uri = "/tmp/lancedb"
+db = lancedb.connect(uri)
+
+# Create 10,000 sample vectors
+data = [
+    {"vector": row, "item": f"item {i}"}
+    for i, row in enumerate(np.random.random((10_000, 1536)).astype('float32'))
+]
+
+# Add the vectors to a table
+tbl = db.create_table("my_vectors", data=data)
+
+# Create and train the HNSW index for a 1536-dimensional vector
+# Make sure you have enough data in the table for an effective training step
+tbl.create_index(index_type=IVF_HNSW_SQ)
+
+```
+
+### Query the index
+
+```python
+# Search using a random 1536-dimensional embedding
+tbl.search(np.random.random((1536))) \
+    .limit(2) \
+    .to_pandas()
+```

docs/src/concepts/index_ivfpq.md

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ We can combine the above concepts to understand how to build and query an IVF-PQ
 
 There are three key parameters to set when constructing an IVF-PQ index:
 
-* `metric`: Use an `L2` euclidean distance metric. We also support `dot` and `cosine` distance.
+* `metric`: Use an `l2` euclidean distance metric. We also support `dot` and `cosine` distance.
 * `num_partitions`: The number of partitions in the IVF portion of the index.
 * `num_sub_vectors`: The number of sub-vectors that will be created during Product Quantization (PQ).
 
@@ -56,10 +56,12 @@ In Python, the index can be created as follows:
 ```python
 # Create and train the index for a 1536-dimensional vector
 # Make sure you have enough data in the table for an effective training step
-tbl.create_index(metric="L2", num_partitions=256, num_sub_vectors=96)
+tbl.create_index(metric="l2", num_partitions=256, num_sub_vectors=96)
 ```
+!!! note
+    `num_partitions`=256 and `num_sub_vectors`=96 does not work for every dataset. Those values needs to be adjusted for your particular dataset.
 
-The `num_partitions` is usually chosen to target a particular number of vectors per partition. `num_sub_vectors` is typically chosen based on the desired recall and the dimensionality of the vector. See the [FAQs](#faq) below for best practices on choosing these parameters.
+The `num_partitions` is usually chosen to target a particular number of vectors per partition. `num_sub_vectors` is typically chosen based on the desired recall and the dimensionality of the vector. See [here](../ann_indexes.md/#how-to-choose-num_partitions-and-num_sub_vectors-for-ivf_pq-index) for best practices on choosing these parameters.
 
 
 ### Query the index

docs/src/embeddings/available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/imagebind_embedding.md

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# Imagebind embeddings
+We have support for [imagebind](https://github.com/facebookresearch/ImageBind) model embeddings. You can download our version of the packaged model via - `pip install imagebind-packaged==0.1.2`.
+
+This function is registered as `imagebind` and supports Audio, Video and Text modalities(extending to Thermal,Depth,IMU data):
+
+| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `name` | `str` | `"imagebind_huge"` | Name of the model. |
+| `device` | `str` | `"cpu"` | The device to run the model on. Can be `"cpu"` or `"gpu"`. |
+| `normalize` | `bool` | `False` | set to `True` to normalize your inputs before model ingestion. |
+
+Below is an example demonstrating how the API works:
+
+```python
+import lancedb
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+
+db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
+func = get_registry().get("imagebind").create()
+
+class ImageBindModel(LanceModel):
+    text: str
+    image_uri: str = func.SourceField()
+    audio_path: str
+    vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()
+
+# add locally accessible image paths
+text_list=["A dog.", "A car", "A bird"]
+image_paths=[".assets/dog_image.jpg", ".assets/car_image.jpg", ".assets/bird_image.jpg"]
+audio_paths=[".assets/dog_audio.wav", ".assets/car_audio.wav", ".assets/bird_audio.wav"]
+
+# Load data
+inputs = [
+    {"text": a, "audio_path": b, "image_uri": c}
+    for a, b, c in zip(text_list, audio_paths, image_paths)
+]
+
+#create table and add data
+table = db.create_table("img_bind", schema=ImageBindModel)
+table.add(inputs)
+```
+
+Now, we can search using any modality:
+
+#### image search
+```python
+query_image = "./assets/dog_image2.jpg" #download an image and enter that path here
+actual = table.search(query_image).limit(1).to_pydantic(ImageBindModel)[0]
+print(actual.text == "dog")
+```
+#### audio search
+
+```python
+query_audio = "./assets/car_audio2.wav" #download an audio clip and enter path here
+actual = table.search(query_audio).limit(1).to_pydantic(ImageBindModel)[0]
+print(actual.text == "car")
+```
+#### Text search
+You can add any input query and fetch the result as follows:
+```python
+query = "an animal which flies and tweets" 
+actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(ImageBindModel)[0]
+print(actual.text == "bird")
+```
+
+If you have any questions about the embeddings API, supported models, or see a relevant model missing, please raise an issue [on GitHub](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues).

docs/src/embeddings/available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/jina_multimodal_embedding.md

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Jina Embeddings : Multimodal
+
+Jina embeddings can also be used to embed both text and image data, only some of the models support image data and you can check the list
+under [https://jina.ai/embeddings/](https://jina.ai/embeddings/)
+
+Supported parameters (to be passed in `create` method) are:
+
+| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `name` | `str` | `"jina-clip-v1"` | The model ID of the jina model to use |
+
+Usage Example:
+
+```python
+    import os
+    import requests
+    import lancedb
+    from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+    from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+    import pandas as pd
+
+    os.environ['JINA_API_KEY'] = 'jina_*'
+
+    db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
+    func = get_registry().get("jina").create()
+
+
+    class Images(LanceModel):
+        label: str
+        image_uri: str = func.SourceField()  # image uri as the source
+        image_bytes: bytes = func.SourceField()  # image bytes as the source
+        vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()  # vector column
+        vec_from_bytes: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()  # Another vector column
+
+
+    table = db.create_table("images", schema=Images)
+    labels = ["cat", "cat", "dog", "dog", "horse", "horse"]
+    uris = [
+        "http://farm1.staticflickr.com/53/167798175_7c7845bbbd_z.jpg",
+        "http://farm1.staticflickr.com/134/332220238_da527d8140_z.jpg",
+        "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8387/8602747737_2e5c2a45d4_z.jpg",
+        "http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4092/5017326486_1f46057f5f_z.jpg",
+        "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8216/8434969557_d37882c42d_z.jpg",
+        "http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5142/5835678453_4f3a4edb45_z.jpg",
+    ]
+    # get each uri as bytes
+    image_bytes = [requests.get(uri).content for uri in uris]
+    table.add(
+      pd.DataFrame({"label": labels, "image_uri": uris, "image_bytes": image_bytes})
+    )
+```

docs/src/embeddings/available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/openclip_embedding.md

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# OpenClip embeddings
+We support CLIP model embeddings using the open source alternative, [open-clip](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip) which supports various customizations. It is registered as `open-clip` and supports the following customizations:
+
+| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `name` | `str` | `"ViT-B-32"` | The name of the model. |
+| `pretrained` | `str` | `"laion2b_s34b_b79k"` | The name of the pretrained model to load. |
+| `device` | `str` | `"cpu"` | The device to run the model on. Can be `"cpu"` or `"gpu"`. |
+| `batch_size` | `int` | `64` | The number of images to process in a batch. |
+| `normalize` | `bool` | `True` | Whether to normalize the input images before feeding them to the model. |
+
+This embedding function supports ingesting images as both bytes and urls. You can query them using both test and other images.
+
+!!! info
+    LanceDB supports ingesting images directly from accessible links.
+
+```python
+import lancedb
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+
+db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
+func = get_registry().get("open-clip").create()
+
+class Images(LanceModel):
+    label: str
+    image_uri: str = func.SourceField() # image uri as the source
+    image_bytes: bytes = func.SourceField() # image bytes as the source
+    vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField() # vector column 
+    vec_from_bytes: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField() # Another vector column 
+
+table = db.create_table("images", schema=Images)
+labels = ["cat", "cat", "dog", "dog", "horse", "horse"]
+uris = [
+    "http://farm1.staticflickr.com/53/167798175_7c7845bbbd_z.jpg",
+    "http://farm1.staticflickr.com/134/332220238_da527d8140_z.jpg",
+    "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8387/8602747737_2e5c2a45d4_z.jpg",
+    "http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4092/5017326486_1f46057f5f_z.jpg",
+    "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8216/8434969557_d37882c42d_z.jpg",
+    "http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5142/5835678453_4f3a4edb45_z.jpg",
+]
+# get each uri as bytes
+image_bytes = [requests.get(uri).content for uri in uris]
+table.add(
+    pd.DataFrame({"label": labels, "image_uri": uris, "image_bytes": image_bytes})
+)
+```
+Now we can search using text from both the default vector column and the custom vector column
+```python
+
+# text search
+actual = table.search("man's best friend").limit(1).to_pydantic(Images)[0]
+print(actual.label) # prints "dog"
+
+frombytes = (
+    table.search("man's best friend", vector_column_name="vec_from_bytes")
+    .limit(1)
+    .to_pydantic(Images)[0]
+)
+print(frombytes.label)
+
+```
+
+Because we're using a multi-modal embedding function, we can also search using images
+
+```python
+# image search
+query_image_uri = "http://farm1.staticflickr.com/200/467715466_ed4a31801f_z.jpg"
+image_bytes = requests.get(query_image_uri).content
+query_image = Image.open(io.BytesIO(image_bytes))
+actual = table.search(query_image).limit(1).to_pydantic(Images)[0]
+print(actual.label == "dog")
+
+# image search using a custom vector column
+other = (
+    table.search(query_image, vector_column_name="vec_from_bytes")
+    .limit(1)
+    .to_pydantic(Images)[0]
+)
+print(actual.label)
+
+```

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+# AWS Bedrock Text Embedding Functions
+
+AWS Bedrock supports multiple base models for generating text embeddings. You need to setup the AWS credentials to use this embedding function.
+You can do so by using `awscli` and also add your session_token:
+```shell
+aws configure
+aws configure set aws_session_token "<your_session_token>"
+```
+to ensure that the credentials are set up correctly, you can run the following command:
+```shell
+aws sts get-caller-identity
+```
+
+Supported Embedding modelIDs are:
+* `amazon.titan-embed-text-v1`
+* `cohere.embed-english-v3`
+* `cohere.embed-multilingual-v3`
+
+Supported parameters (to be passed in `create` method) are:
+
+| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| **name** | str | "amazon.titan-embed-text-v1" | The model ID of the bedrock model to use. Supported base models for Text Embeddings: amazon.titan-embed-text-v1, cohere.embed-english-v3, cohere.embed-multilingual-v3 |
+| **region** | str | "us-east-1" | Optional name of the AWS Region in which the service should be called (e.g., "us-east-1"). |
+| **profile_name** | str | None | Optional name of the AWS profile to use for calling the Bedrock service. If not specified, the default profile will be used. |
+| **assumed_role** | str | None | Optional ARN of an AWS IAM role to assume for calling the Bedrock service. If not specified, the current active credentials will be used. |
+| **role_session_name** | str | "lancedb-embeddings" | Optional name of the AWS IAM role session to use for calling the Bedrock service. If not specified, a "lancedb-embeddings" name will be used. |
+| **runtime** | bool | True | Optional choice of getting different client to perform operations with the Amazon Bedrock service. |
+| **max_retries** | int | 7 | Optional number of retries to perform when a request fails. |
+
+Usage Example:
+
+```python
+import lancedb
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+import pandas as pd
+
+model = get_registry().get("bedrock-text").create()
+
+class TextModel(LanceModel):
+    text: str = model.SourceField()
+    vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
+
+df = pd.DataFrame({"text": ["hello world", "goodbye world"]})
+db = lancedb.connect("tmp_path")
+tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
+
+tbl.add(df)
+rs = tbl.search("hello").limit(1).to_pandas()
+```

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+# Cohere Embeddings
+
+Using cohere API requires cohere package, which can be installed using `pip install cohere`. Cohere embeddings are used to generate embeddings for text data. The embeddings can be used for various tasks like semantic search, clustering, and classification.
+You also need to set the `COHERE_API_KEY` environment variable to use the Cohere API.
+
+Supported models are:
+
+- embed-english-v3.0
+- embed-multilingual-v3.0
+- embed-english-light-v3.0
+- embed-multilingual-light-v3.0
+- embed-english-v2.0
+- embed-english-light-v2.0
+- embed-multilingual-v2.0
+
+
+Supported parameters (to be passed in `create` method) are:
+
+| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
+|---|---|--------|---------|
+| `name` | `str` | `"embed-english-v2.0"` | The model ID of the cohere model to use. Supported base models for Text Embeddings: embed-english-v3.0, embed-multilingual-v3.0, embed-english-light-v3.0, embed-multilingual-light-v3.0, embed-english-v2.0, embed-english-light-v2.0, embed-multilingual-v2.0 |
+| `source_input_type` | `str` | `"search_document"` | The type of input data to be used for the source column. |
+| `query_input_type` | `str` | `"search_query"` | The type of input data to be used for the query. |
+
+Cohere supports following input types:
+
+| Input Type               | Description                          |
+|-------------------------|---------------------------------------|
+| "`search_document`"     | Used for embeddings stored in a vector|
+|                         | database for search use-cases.        |
+| "`search_query`"        | Used for embeddings of search queries |
+|                         | run against a vector DB               |
+| "`semantic_similarity`" | Specifies the given text will be used |
+|                         | for Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) |
+| "`classification`"      | Used for embeddings passed through a  |
+|                         | text classifier.                      |
+| "`clustering`"          | Used for the embeddings run through a |
+|                         | clustering algorithm                  |
+
+Usage Example:
+    
+```python
+    import lancedb
+    from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+    from lancedb.embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+
+    cohere = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+        .get_instance()
+        .get("cohere")
+        .create(name="embed-multilingual-v2.0")
+
+    class TextModel(LanceModel):
+        text: str = cohere.SourceField()
+        vector: Vector(cohere.ndims()) =  cohere.VectorField()
+
+    data = [ { "text": "hello world" },
+            { "text": "goodbye world" }]
+
+    db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
+    tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
+
+    tbl.add(data)
+```

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+# Gemini Embeddings
+With Google's Gemini, you can represent text (words, sentences, and blocks of text) in a vectorized form, making it easier to compare and contrast embeddings. For example, two texts that share a similar subject matter or sentiment should have similar embeddings, which can be identified through mathematical comparison techniques such as cosine similarity. For more on how and why you should use embeddings, refer to the Embeddings guide.
+The Gemini Embedding Model API supports various task types:
+
+| Task Type               | Description                                                                                                                                                |
+|-------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| "`retrieval_query`"     | Specifies the given text is a query in a search/retrieval setting.                                                                                         |
+| "`retrieval_document`"  | Specifies the given text is a document in a search/retrieval setting. Using this task type requires a title but is automatically proided by Embeddings API |
+| "`semantic_similarity`" | Specifies the given text will be used for Semantic Textual Similarity (STS).                                                                               |
+| "`classification`"      | Specifies that the embeddings will be used for classification.                                                                                             |
+| "`clusering`"           | Specifies that the embeddings will be used for clustering.                                                                                                 |
+
+
+Usage Example:
+
+```python
+import lancedb
+import pandas as pd
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+
+
+model = get_registry().get("gemini-text").create()
+
+class TextModel(LanceModel):
+    text: str = model.SourceField()
+    vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
+
+df = pd.DataFrame({"text": ["hello world", "goodbye world"]})
+db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
+tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
+
+tbl.add(df)
+rs = tbl.search("hello").limit(1).to_pandas()
+```

docs/src/embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/huggingface_embedding.md

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+# Huggingface embedding models
+We offer support for all Hugging Face models (which can be loaded via [transformers](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/index) library). The default model is `colbert-ir/colbertv2.0` which also has its own special callout - `registry.get("colbert")`. Some Hugging Face models might require custom models defined on the HuggingFace Hub in their own modeling files. You may enable this by setting `trust_remote_code=True`. This option should only be set to True for repositories you trust and in which you have read the code, as it will execute code present on the Hub on your local machine. 
+
+Example usage - 
+```python
+import lancedb
+import pandas as pd
+
+from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+
+model = get_registry().get("huggingface").create(name='facebook/bart-base')
+
+class Words(LanceModel):
+    text: str = model.SourceField()
+    vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
+
+df = pd.DataFrame({"text": ["hi hello sayonara", "goodbye world"]})
+table = db.create_table("greets", schema=Words)
+table.add(df)
+query = "old greeting"
+actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]
+print(actual.text)
+```

docs/src/embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/ibm_watsonx_ai_embedding.md

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+# IBM watsonx.ai Embeddings
+
+Generate text embeddings using IBM's watsonx.ai platform.
+
+## Supported Models
+
+You can find a list of supported models at [IBM watsonx.ai Documentation](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/fm-models-embed.html?context=wx). The currently supported model names are:
+
+- `ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr`
+- `ibm/slate-30m-english-rtrvr`
+- `sentence-transformers/all-minilm-l12-v2`
+- `intfloat/multilingual-e5-large`
+
+## Parameters
+
+The following parameters can be passed to the `create` method:
+
+| Parameter  | Type     | Default Value                    | Description                                               |
+|------------|----------|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|
+| name       | str      | "ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr"   | The model ID of the watsonx.ai model to use               |
+| api_key    | str      | None                             | Optional IBM Cloud API key (or set `WATSONX_API_KEY`)     |
+| project_id | str      | None                             | Optional watsonx project ID (or set `WATSONX_PROJECT_ID`) |
+| url        | str      | None                             | Optional custom URL for the watsonx.ai instance           |
+| params     | dict     | None                             | Optional additional parameters for the embedding model    |
+
+## Usage Example
+
+First, the watsonx.ai library is an optional dependency, so must be installed seperately:
+
+```
+pip install ibm-watsonx-ai
+```
+
+Optionally set environment variables (if not passing credentials to `create` directly):
+
+```sh
+export WATSONX_API_KEY="YOUR_WATSONX_API_KEY"
+export WATSONX_PROJECT_ID="YOUR_WATSONX_PROJECT_ID"
+```
+
+```python
+import os
+import lancedb
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+from lancedb.embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+
+watsonx_embed = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+  .get_instance()
+  .get("watsonx")
+  .create(
+    name="ibm/slate-125m-english-rtrvr",
+    # Uncomment and set these if not using environment variables
+    # api_key="your_api_key_here",
+    # project_id="your_project_id_here",
+    # url="your_watsonx_url_here",
+    # params={...},
+  )
+
+class TextModel(LanceModel):
+    text: str = watsonx_embed.SourceField()
+    vector: Vector(watsonx_embed.ndims()) = watsonx_embed.VectorField()
+
+data = [
+    {"text": "hello world"},
+    {"text": "goodbye world"},
+]
+
+db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
+tbl = db.create_table("watsonx_test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
+
+tbl.add(data)
+
+rs = tbl.search("hello").limit(1).to_pandas()
+print(rs)
+```

docs/src/embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/instructor_embedding.md

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+# Instructor Embeddings
+[Instructor](https://instructor-embedding.github.io/) is an instruction-finetuned text embedding model that can generate text embeddings tailored to any task (e.g. classification, retrieval, clustering, text evaluation, etc.) and domains (e.g. science, finance, etc.) by simply providing the task instruction, without any finetuning.
+
+If you want to calculate customized embeddings for specific sentences, you can follow the unified template to write instructions.
+
+!!! info
+    Represent the `domain` `text_type` for `task_objective`:
+
+    * `domain` is optional, and it specifies the domain of the text, e.g. science, finance, medicine, etc.
+    * `text_type` is required, and it specifies the encoding unit, e.g. sentence, document, paragraph, etc.
+    * `task_objective` is optional, and it specifies the objective of embedding, e.g. retrieve a document, classify the sentence, etc.
+
+More information about the model can be found at the [source URL](https://github.com/xlang-ai/instructor-embedding).
+
+| Argument | Type | Default | Description |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `name` | `str` | "hkunlp/instructor-base" | The name of the model to use |
+| `batch_size` | `int` | `32` | The batch size to use when generating embeddings |
+| `device` | `str` | `"cpu"` | The device to use when generating embeddings |
+| `show_progress_bar` | `bool` | `True` | Whether to show a progress bar when generating embeddings |
+| `normalize_embeddings` | `bool` | `True` | Whether to normalize the embeddings |
+| `quantize` | `bool` | `False` | Whether to quantize the model |
+| `source_instruction` | `str` | `"represent the docuement for retreival"` | The instruction for the source column |
+| `query_instruction` | `str` | `"represent the document for retreiving the most similar documents"` | The instruction for the query |
+
+
+
+```python
+import lancedb
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry, InstuctorEmbeddingFunction
+
+instructor = get_registry().get("instructor").create(
+                            source_instruction="represent the docuement for retreival",
+                            query_instruction="represent the document for retreiving the most similar documents"
+                            )
+
+class Schema(LanceModel):
+    vector: Vector(instructor.ndims()) = instructor.VectorField()
+    text: str = instructor.SourceField()
+
+db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
+tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=Schema, mode="overwrite")
+
+texts = [{"text": "Capitalism has been dominant in the Western world since the end of feudalism, but most feel[who?] that..."},
+        {"text": "The disparate impact theory is especially controversial under the Fair Housing Act because the Act..."},
+        {"text": "Disparate impact in United States labor law refers to practices in employment, housing, and other areas that.."}]
+
+tbl.add(texts)
+```

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+# Jina Embeddings
+
+Jina embeddings are used to generate embeddings for text and image data.
+You also need to set the `JINA_API_KEY` environment variable to use the Jina API.
+
+You can find a list of supported models under [https://jina.ai/embeddings/](https://jina.ai/embeddings/)
+
+Supported parameters (to be passed in `create` method) are:
+
+| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `name` | `str` | `"jina-clip-v1"` | The model ID of the jina model to use |
+
+Usage Example:
+
+```python
+    import os
+    import lancedb
+    from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+    from lancedb.embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+
+    os.environ['JINA_API_KEY'] = 'jina_*'
+
+    jina_embed = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance().get("jina").create(name="jina-embeddings-v2-base-en")
+
+
+    class TextModel(LanceModel):
+        text: str = jina_embed.SourceField()
+        vector: Vector(jina_embed.ndims()) = jina_embed.VectorField()
+
+
+    data = [{"text": "hello world"},
+            {"text": "goodbye world"}]
+
+    db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb-2")
+    tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
+
+    tbl.add(data)
+```

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+# Ollama embeddings
+
+Generate embeddings via the [ollama](https://github.com/ollama/ollama-python) python library. More details:
+
+- [Ollama docs on embeddings](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/api.md#generate-embeddings)
+- [Ollama blog on embeddings](https://ollama.com/blog/embedding-models)
+
+| Parameter              | Type                       | Default Value            | Description                                                                                                                                    |
+|------------------------|----------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| `name`                 | `str`                      | `nomic-embed-text`       | The name of the model.                                                                                                                         |
+| `host`                 | `str`                      | `http://localhost:11434` | The Ollama host to connect to.                                                                                                                 |
+| `options`              | `ollama.Options` or `dict` | `None`                   | Additional model parameters listed in the documentation for the Modelfile such as `temperature`. |
+| `keep_alive`           | `float` or `str`           | `"5m"`                   | Controls how long the model will stay loaded into memory following the request.                                                                |
+| `ollama_client_kwargs` | `dict`                     | `{}`                     | kwargs that can be past to the `ollama.Client`.                                                                                                |
+
+```python
+import lancedb
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+
+db = lancedb.connect("/tmp/db")
+func = get_registry().get("ollama").create(name="nomic-embed-text")
+
+class Words(LanceModel):
+    text: str = func.SourceField()
+    vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()
+
+table = db.create_table("words", schema=Words, mode="overwrite")
+table.add([
+    {"text": "hello world"},
+    {"text": "goodbye world"}
+])
+
+query = "greetings"
+actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]
+print(actual.text)
+```

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+# OpenAI embeddings
+
+LanceDB registers the OpenAI embeddings function in the registry by default, as `openai`. Below are the parameters that you can customize when creating the instances:
+
+| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `name` | `str` | `"text-embedding-ada-002"` | The name of the model. |
+| `dim` | `int` |  Model default   | For OpenAI's newer text-embedding-3 model, we can specify a dimensionality that is smaller than the 1536 size. This feature supports it |
+| `use_azure` | bool | `False` | Set true to use Azure OpenAPI SDK |
+
+
+```python
+import lancedb
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+
+db = lancedb.connect("/tmp/db")
+func = get_registry().get("openai").create(name="text-embedding-ada-002")
+
+class Words(LanceModel):
+    text: str = func.SourceField()
+    vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()
+
+table = db.create_table("words", schema=Words, mode="overwrite")
+table.add(
+    [
+        {"text": "hello world"},
+        {"text": "goodbye world"}
+    ]
+    )
+
+query = "greetings"
+actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]
+print(actual.text)
+```

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+# Sentence transformers
+Allows you to set parameters when registering a `sentence-transformers` object.
+
+!!! info
+    Sentence transformer embeddings are normalized by default. It is recommended to use normalized embeddings for similarity search.
+
+| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `name` | `str` | `all-MiniLM-L6-v2` | The name of the model |
+| `device` | `str` | `cpu` | The device to run the model on (can be `cpu` or `gpu`) |
+| `normalize` | `bool` | `True` | Whether to normalize the input text before feeding it to the model |
+| `trust_remote_code` | `bool` | `False` | Whether to trust and execute remote code from the model's Huggingface repository |
+
+
+??? "Check out available sentence-transformer models here!"
+    ```markdown
+    - sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-mpnet-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/gtr-t5-base
+    - sentence-transformers/LaBSE
+    - sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/bert-base-nli-max-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/bert-base-nli-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/bert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/bert-base-wikipedia-sections-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/bert-large-nli-cls-token
+    - sentence-transformers/bert-large-nli-max-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/bert-large-nli-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/bert-large-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-max-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/distilroberta-base-msmarco-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/distilroberta-base-msmarco-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-base-cls-pooling
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-base-max-pooling
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-base
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-large-cls-pooling
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-large-max-pooling
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-large
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-distilbert-base-max-pooling
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-distilbert-base
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-roberta-base
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-roberta-large
+    - sentence-transformers/roberta-base-nli-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/roberta-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/roberta-large-nli-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/roberta-large-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/stsb-bert-base
+    - sentence-transformers/stsb-bert-large
+    - sentence-transformers/stsb-distilbert-base
+    - sentence-transformers/stsb-roberta-base
+    - sentence-transformers/stsb-roberta-large
+    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-100langs-bert-base-nli-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-100langs-bert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-base-en-ko-nli-ststb
+    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-bert-base-nli-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-bert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
+    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-large-en-ko-nli-ststb
+    - sentence-transformers/bert-base-nli-cls-token
+    - sentence-transformers/all-distilroberta-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-dot-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-distilbert-cos-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-distilbert-dot-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-mpnet-base-cos-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-distilroberta-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/all-roberta-large-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/allenai-specter
+    - sentence-transformers/average_word_embeddings_glove.6B.300d
+    - sentence-transformers/average_word_embeddings_glove.840B.300d
+    - sentence-transformers/average_word_embeddings_komninos
+    - sentence-transformers/average_word_embeddings_levy_dependency
+    - sentence-transformers/clip-ViT-B-32-multilingual-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/clip-ViT-B-32
+    - sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-stsb-quora-ranking
+    - sentence-transformers/distilbert-multilingual-nli-stsb-quora-ranking
+    - sentence-transformers/distilroberta-base-paraphrase-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/distiluse-base-multilingual-cased
+    - sentence-transformers/facebook-dpr-ctx_encoder-multiset-base
+    - sentence-transformers/facebook-dpr-ctx_encoder-single-nq-base
+    - sentence-transformers/facebook-dpr-question_encoder-multiset-base
+    - sentence-transformers/facebook-dpr-question_encoder-single-nq-base
+    - sentence-transformers/gtr-t5-large
+    - sentence-transformers/gtr-t5-xl
+    - sentence-transformers/gtr-t5-xxl
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L-12-v3
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L-6-v3
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L12-cos-v5
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L6-cos-v5
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-bert-base-dot-v5
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-bert-co-condensor
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-base-dot-prod-v3
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-base-tas-b
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-base-v3
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-base-v4
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-cos-v5
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-dot-v5
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-multilingual-en-de-v2-tmp-lng-aligned
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-multilingual-en-de-v2-tmp-trained-scratch
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilroberta-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-roberta-base-ance-firstp
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-roberta-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-roberta-base-v3
+    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-mpnet-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/nli-roberta-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/nq-distilbert-base-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L12-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-albert-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-albert-small-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-distilroberta-base-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-distilroberta-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-xlm-r-multilingual-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/quora-distilbert-base
+    - sentence-transformers/quora-distilbert-multilingual
+    - sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-base
+    - sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-large
+    - sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-xxl
+    - sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-xl
+    - sentence-transformers/stsb-distilroberta-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/stsb-mpnet-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/stsb-roberta-base-v2
+    - sentence-transformers/stsb-xlm-r-multilingual
+    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-distilroberta-base-paraphrase-v1
+    - sentence-transformers/clip-ViT-L-14
+    - sentence-transformers/clip-ViT-B-16
+    - sentence-transformers/use-cmlm-multilingual
+    - sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-v1
+    ```
+
+!!! info
+    You can also load many other model architectures from the library. For example models from sources such as BAAI, nomic, salesforce research, etc.
+    See this HF hub page for all [supported models](https://huggingface.co/models?library=sentence-transformers).
+
+!!! note "BAAI Embeddings example"
+    Here is an example that uses BAAI embedding model from the HuggingFace Hub [supported models](https://huggingface.co/models?library=sentence-transformers)
+    ```python
+    import lancedb
+    from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+    from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+
+    db = lancedb.connect("/tmp/db")
+    model = get_registry().get("sentence-transformers").create(name="BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5", device="cpu")
+
+    class Words(LanceModel):
+        text: str = model.SourceField()
+        vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
+
+    table = db.create_table("words", schema=Words)
+    table.add(
+        [
+            {"text": "hello world"},
+            {"text": "goodbye world"}
+        ]
+    )
+
+    query = "greetings"
+    actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]
+    print(actual.text)
+    ```
+Visit sentence-transformers [HuggingFace HUB](https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers) page for more information on the available models.
+

docs/src/embeddings/available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/voyageai_embedding.md

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# VoyageAI Embeddings
+
+Voyage AI provides cutting-edge embedding and rerankers.
+
+
+Using voyageai API requires voyageai package, which can be installed using `pip install voyageai`. Voyage AI embeddings are used to generate embeddings for text data. The embeddings can be used for various tasks like semantic search, clustering, and classification.
+You also need to set the `VOYAGE_API_KEY` environment variable to use the VoyageAI API.
+
+Supported models are:
+
+- voyage-3
+- voyage-3-lite
+- voyage-finance-2
+- voyage-multilingual-2
+- voyage-law-2
+- voyage-code-2
+
+
+Supported parameters (to be passed in `create` method) are:
+
+| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
+|---|---|--------|---------|
+| `name` | `str` | `None` | The model ID of the model to use. Supported base models for Text Embeddings: voyage-3, voyage-3-lite, voyage-finance-2, voyage-multilingual-2, voyage-law-2, voyage-code-2 |
+| `input_type` | `str` | `None` | Type of the input text. Default to None. Other options: query, document. |
+| `truncation` | `bool` | `True` | Whether to truncate the input texts to fit within the context length. |
+
+
+Usage Example:
+    
+```python
+    import lancedb
+    from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+    from lancedb.embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+
+    voyageai = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+        .get_instance()
+        .get("voyageai")
+        .create(name="voyage-3")
+
+    class TextModel(LanceModel):
+        text: str = voyageai.SourceField()
+        vector: Vector(voyageai.ndims()) =  voyageai.VectorField()
+
+    data = [ { "text": "hello world" },
+            { "text": "goodbye world" }]
+
+    db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
+    tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
+
+    tbl.add(data)
+```

docs/src/embeddings/custom_embedding_function.md

@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ There is another optional layer of abstraction available: `TextEmbeddingFunction
 
 Let's implement `SentenceTransformerEmbeddings` class. All you need to do is implement the `generate_embeddings()` and `ndims` function to handle the input types you expect and register the class in the global `EmbeddingFunctionRegistry`
 
+
+=== "Python"
+
     ```python
     from lancedb.embeddings import register
     from lancedb.util import attempt_import_or_raise
@@ -41,10 +44,29 @@ class SentenceTransformerEmbeddings(TextEmbeddingFunction):
             return sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformer(name)
     ```
 
-This is a stripped down version of our implementation of `SentenceTransformerEmbeddings` that removes certain optimizations and defaul settings.
+=== "TypeScript"
+
+    ```ts
+    --8<--- "nodejs/examples/custom_embedding_function.test.ts:imports"
+
+    --8<--- "nodejs/examples/custom_embedding_function.test.ts:embedding_impl"
+    ```
+
+
+This is a stripped down version of our implementation of `SentenceTransformerEmbeddings` that removes certain optimizations and default settings.
+
+!!! danger "Use sensitive keys to prevent leaking secrets"
+    To prevent leaking secrets, such as API keys, you should add any sensitive
+    parameters of an embedding function to the output of the
+    [sensitive_keys()][lancedb.embeddings.base.EmbeddingFunction.sensitive_keys] /
+    [getSensitiveKeys()](../../js/namespaces/embedding/classes/EmbeddingFunction/#getsensitivekeys)
+    method. This prevents users from accidentally instantiating the embedding
+    function with hard-coded secrets.
 
 Now you can use this embedding function to create your table schema and that's it! you can then ingest data and run queries without manually vectorizing the inputs.
 
+=== "Python"
+
     ```python
     from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
 
@@ -61,12 +83,22 @@ tbl.add(pd.DataFrame({"text": ["halo", "world"]}))
     result = tbl.search("world").limit(5)
     ```
 
-NOTE:
+=== "TypeScript"
+
+    ```ts
+    --8<--- "nodejs/examples/custom_embedding_function.test.ts:call_custom_function"
+    ```
+
+!!! note
 
     You can always implement the `EmbeddingFunction` interface directly if you want or need to, `TextEmbeddingFunction` just makes it much simpler and faster for you to do so, by setting up the boiler plat for text-specific use case
 
 ## Multi-modal embedding function example
-You can also use the `EmbeddingFunction` interface to implement more complex workflows such as multi-modal embedding function support. LanceDB implements `OpenClipEmeddingFunction` class that suppports multi-modal seach. Here's the implementation that you can use as a reference to build your own multi-modal embedding functions.
+You can also use the `EmbeddingFunction` interface to implement more complex workflows such as multi-modal embedding function support.
+
+=== "Python"
+
+    LanceDB implements `OpenClipEmeddingFunction` class that suppports multi-modal seach. Here's the implementation that you can use as a reference to build your own multi-modal embedding functions.
 
     ```python
     @register("open-clip")
@@ -210,3 +242,7 @@ class OpenClipEmbeddings(EmbeddingFunction):
                 image_features /= image_features.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
             return image_features.cpu().numpy().squeeze()
     ```
+
+=== "TypeScript"
+
+    Coming Soon! See this [issue](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/1482) to track the status!

docs/src/embeddings/default_embedding_functions.md

@@ -1,723 +1,86 @@
-There are various embedding functions available out of the box with LanceDB to manage your embeddings implicitly. We're actively working on adding other popular embedding APIs and models.
+# 📚 Available Embedding Models
 
-## Text embedding functions
+There are various embedding functions available out of the box with LanceDB to manage your embeddings implicitly. We're actively working on adding other popular embedding APIs and models. 🚀
-Contains the text embedding functions registered by default.
 
-* Embedding functions have an inbuilt rate limit handler wrapper for source and query embedding function calls that retry with exponential backoff. 
+Before jumping on the list of available models, let's understand how to get an embedding model initialized and configured to use in our code: 
-* Each `EmbeddingFunction` implementation automatically takes `max_retries` as an argument which has the default value of 7.
 
-### Sentence transformers
+!!! example "Example usage"
-Allows you to set parameters when registering a `sentence-transformers` object.
-
-!!! info
-    Sentence transformer embeddings are normalized by default. It is recommended to use normalized embeddings for similarity search.
-
-| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `name` | `str` | `all-MiniLM-L6-v2` | The name of the model |
-| `device` | `str` | `cpu` | The device to run the model on (can be `cpu` or `gpu`) |
-| `normalize` | `bool` | `True` | Whether to normalize the input text before feeding it to the model |
-| `trust_remote_code` | `bool` | `False` | Whether to trust and execute remote code from the model's Huggingface repository |
-
-
-??? "Check out available sentence-transformer models here!"
-    ```markdown
-    - sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-mpnet-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/gtr-t5-base
-    - sentence-transformers/LaBSE
-    - sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/bert-base-nli-max-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/bert-base-nli-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/bert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/bert-base-wikipedia-sections-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/bert-large-nli-cls-token
-    - sentence-transformers/bert-large-nli-max-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/bert-large-nli-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/bert-large-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-max-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/distilroberta-base-msmarco-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/distilroberta-base-msmarco-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-base-cls-pooling
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-base-max-pooling
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-base
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-large-cls-pooling
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-large-max-pooling
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-bert-large
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-distilbert-base-max-pooling
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-distilbert-base
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-roberta-base
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-roberta-large
-    - sentence-transformers/roberta-base-nli-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/roberta-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/roberta-large-nli-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/roberta-large-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/stsb-bert-base
-    - sentence-transformers/stsb-bert-large
-    - sentence-transformers/stsb-distilbert-base
-    - sentence-transformers/stsb-roberta-base
-    - sentence-transformers/stsb-roberta-large
-    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-100langs-bert-base-nli-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-100langs-bert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-base-en-ko-nli-ststb
-    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-bert-base-nli-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-bert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens
-    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-large-en-ko-nli-ststb
-    - sentence-transformers/bert-base-nli-cls-token
-    - sentence-transformers/all-distilroberta-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-dot-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-distilbert-cos-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-distilbert-dot-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-mpnet-base-cos-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-distilroberta-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/all-roberta-large-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/allenai-specter
-    - sentence-transformers/average_word_embeddings_glove.6B.300d
-    - sentence-transformers/average_word_embeddings_glove.840B.300d
-    - sentence-transformers/average_word_embeddings_komninos
-    - sentence-transformers/average_word_embeddings_levy_dependency
-    - sentence-transformers/clip-ViT-B-32-multilingual-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/clip-ViT-B-32
-    - sentence-transformers/distilbert-base-nli-stsb-quora-ranking
-    - sentence-transformers/distilbert-multilingual-nli-stsb-quora-ranking
-    - sentence-transformers/distilroberta-base-paraphrase-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/distiluse-base-multilingual-cased
-    - sentence-transformers/facebook-dpr-ctx_encoder-multiset-base
-    - sentence-transformers/facebook-dpr-ctx_encoder-single-nq-base
-    - sentence-transformers/facebook-dpr-question_encoder-multiset-base
-    - sentence-transformers/facebook-dpr-question_encoder-single-nq-base
-    - sentence-transformers/gtr-t5-large
-    - sentence-transformers/gtr-t5-xl
-    - sentence-transformers/gtr-t5-xxl
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L-12-v3
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L-6-v3
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L12-cos-v5
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L6-cos-v5
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-bert-base-dot-v5
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-bert-co-condensor
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-base-dot-prod-v3
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-base-tas-b
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-base-v3
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-base-v4
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-cos-v5
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-dot-v5
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-multilingual-en-de-v2-tmp-lng-aligned
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-multilingual-en-de-v2-tmp-trained-scratch
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilroberta-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-roberta-base-ance-firstp
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-roberta-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/msmarco-roberta-base-v3
-    - sentence-transformers/multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-mpnet-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/nli-roberta-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/nq-distilbert-base-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L12-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-TinyBERT-L6-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-albert-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-albert-small-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-distilroberta-base-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-distilroberta-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/paraphrase-xlm-r-multilingual-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/quora-distilbert-base
-    - sentence-transformers/quora-distilbert-multilingual
-    - sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-base
-    - sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-large
-    - sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-xxl
-    - sentence-transformers/sentence-t5-xl
-    - sentence-transformers/stsb-distilroberta-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/stsb-mpnet-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/stsb-roberta-base-v2
-    - sentence-transformers/stsb-xlm-r-multilingual
-    - sentence-transformers/xlm-r-distilroberta-base-paraphrase-v1
-    - sentence-transformers/clip-ViT-L-14
-    - sentence-transformers/clip-ViT-B-16
-    - sentence-transformers/use-cmlm-multilingual
-    - sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-v1
-    ```
-
-!!! info
-    You can also load many other model architectures from the library. For example models from sources such as BAAI, nomic, salesforce research, etc.
-    See this HF hub page for all [supported models](https://huggingface.co/models?library=sentence-transformers).
-
-!!! note "BAAI Embeddings example"
-    Here is an example that uses BAAI embedding model from the HuggingFace Hub [supported models](https://huggingface.co/models?library=sentence-transformers)
     ```python
-    import lancedb
+    model = get_registry()
-    from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+              .get("openai")
-    from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+              .create(name="text-embedding-ada-002")
-
-    db = lancedb.connect("/tmp/db")
-    model = get_registry().get("sentence-transformers").create(name="BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5", device="cpu")
-
-    class Words(LanceModel):
-        text: str = model.SourceField()
-        vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
-
-    table = db.create_table("words", schema=Words)
-    table.add(
-        [
-            {"text": "hello world"},
-            {"text": "goodbye world"}
-        ]
-    )
-
-    query = "greetings"
-    actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]
-    print(actual.text)
     ```
-Visit sentence-transformers [HuggingFace HUB](https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers) page for more information on the available models.
 
-
+Now let's understand the above syntax: 
-### Huggingface embedding models
-We offer support for all huggingface models (which can be loaded via [transformers](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/index) library). The default model is `colbert-ir/colbertv2.0` which also has its own special callout - `registry.get("colbert")` 
-
-Example usage - 
 ```python
-import lancedb
+model = get_registry().get("model_id").create(...params)
-import pandas as pd
-
-from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
-from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
-
-model = get_registry().get("huggingface").create(name='facebook/bart-base')
-
-class Words(LanceModel):
-    text: str = model.SourceField()
-    vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
-
-df = pd.DataFrame({"text": ["hi hello sayonara", "goodbye world"]})
-table = db.create_table("greets", schema=Words)
-table.add(df)
-query = "old greeting"
-actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]
-print(actual.text)
 ```
+**This👆 line effectively creates a configured instance of an `embedding function` with `model` of choice that is ready for use.**
 
+- `get_registry()` :  This function call returns an instance of a `EmbeddingFunctionRegistry` object. This registry manages the registration and retrieval of embedding functions.
 
-### Ollama embeddings
+- `.get("model_id")` : This method call on the registry object and retrieves the **embedding models functions** associated with the `"model_id"` (1) .
-Generate embeddings via the [ollama](https://github.com/ollama/ollama-python) python library. More details:
+    { .annotate }
 
-- [Ollama docs on embeddings](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/api.md#generate-embeddings)
+    1.  Hover over the names in table below to find out the `model_id` of different embedding functions.
-- [Ollama blog on embeddings](https://ollama.com/blog/embedding-models)
 
-| Parameter              | Type                       | Default Value            | Description                                                                                                                                    |
+- `.create(...params)` : This method call is on the object returned by the `get` method. It instantiates an embedding model function using the **specified parameters**. 
-|------------------------|----------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| `name`                 | `str`                      | `nomic-embed-text`       | The name of the model.                                                                                                                         |
-| `host`                 | `str`                      | `http://localhost:11434` | The Ollama host to connect to.                                                                                                                 |
-| `options`              | `ollama.Options` or `dict` | `None`                   | Additional model parameters listed in the documentation for the Modelfile such as `temperature`. |
-| `keep_alive`           | `float` or `str`           | `"5m"`                   | Controls how long the model will stay loaded into memory following the request.                                                                |
-| `ollama_client_kwargs` | `dict`                     | `{}`                     | kwargs that can be past to the `ollama.Client`.                                                                                                |
 
-```python
+??? question "What parameters does the `.create(...params)` method accepts?"
-import lancedb
+    **Checkout the documentation of specific embedding models (links in the table below👇) to know what parameters it takes**.
-from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
-from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
 
-db = lancedb.connect("/tmp/db")
+!!! tip "Moving on"
-func = get_registry().get("ollama").create(name="nomic-embed-text")
+    Now that we know how to get the **desired embedding model** and use it in our code, let's explore the comprehensive **list** of embedding models **supported by LanceDB**, in the tables below.
 
-class Words(LanceModel):
+## Text Embedding Functions 📝 
-    text: str = func.SourceField()
+These functions are registered by default to handle text embeddings.
-    vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()
 
-table = db.create_table("words", schema=Words, mode="overwrite")
+- 🔄 **Embedding functions** have an inbuilt rate limit handler wrapper for source and query embedding function calls that retry with **exponential backoff**. 
-table.add([
-    {"text": "hello world"},
-    {"text": "goodbye world"}
-])
 
-query = "greetings"
+- 🌕 Each `EmbeddingFunction` implementation automatically takes `max_retries` as an argument which has the default value of 7. 
-actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]
-print(actual.text)
-```
 
+🌟 **Available Text Embeddings**
 
-### OpenAI embeddings
+| **Embedding** :material-information-outline:{ title="Hover over the name to find out the model_id" } | **Description** | **Documentation** |
-LanceDB registers the OpenAI embeddings function in the registry by default, as `openai`. Below are the parameters that you can customize when creating the instances:
+|-----------|-------------|---------------|
+| [**Sentence Transformers**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/sentence_transformers.md "sentence-transformers")  | 🧠 **SentenceTransformers** is a Python framework for state-of-the-art sentence, text, and image embeddings. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/sbert_2.png" alt="Sentence Transformers Icon" width="90" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/sentence_transformers.md)|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
+| [**Huggingface Models**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/huggingface_embedding.md "huggingface") |🤗 We offer support for all **Huggingface** models. The default model is `colbert-ir/colbertv2.0`. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/hugging_face.png" alt="Huggingface Icon" width="130" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/huggingface_embedding.md) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
+| [**Ollama Embeddings**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/ollama_embedding.md "ollama") | 🔍 Generate embeddings via the **Ollama** python library. Ollama supports embedding models, making it possible to build RAG apps. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/Ollama.png" alt="Ollama Icon" width="110" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/ollama_embedding.md)|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
+| [**OpenAI Embeddings**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/openai_embedding.md "openai")| 🔑 **OpenAI’s** text embeddings measure the relatedness of text strings. **LanceDB** supports state-of-the-art embeddings from OpenAI. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/openai.png" alt="OpenAI Icon" width="100" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/openai_embedding.md)|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
+| [**Instructor Embeddings**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/instructor_embedding.md "instructor") | 📚 **Instructor**: An instruction-finetuned text embedding model that can generate text embeddings tailored to any task and domains by simply providing the task instruction, without any finetuning. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/instructor_embedding.png" alt="Instructor Embedding Icon" width="140" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/instructor_embedding.md) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
+| [**Gemini Embeddings**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/gemini_embedding.md "gemini-text") | 🌌 Google’s Gemini API generates state-of-the-art embeddings for words, phrases, and sentences. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/gemini.png" alt="Gemini Icon" width="95" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/gemini_embedding.md) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
+| [**Cohere Embeddings**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/cohere_embedding.md "cohere") | 💬 This will help you get started with **Cohere** embedding models using LanceDB. Using cohere API requires cohere package. Install it via `pip`. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/cohere.png" alt="Cohere Icon" width="140" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/cohere_embedding.md) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
+| [**Jina Embeddings**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/jina_embedding.md "jina") | 🔗 World-class embedding models to improve your search and RAG systems. You will need **jina api key**. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/jina.png" alt="Jina Icon" width="90" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/jina_embedding.md) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
+| [ **AWS Bedrock Functions**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/aws_bedrock_embedding.md "bedrock-text") | ☁️ AWS Bedrock supports multiple base models for generating text embeddings. You need to setup the AWS credentials to use this embedding function. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/aws_bedrock.png" alt="AWS Bedrock Icon" width="120" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/aws_bedrock_embedding.md) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
+| [**IBM Watsonx.ai**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/ibm_watsonx_ai_embedding.md "watsonx") | 💡 Generate text embeddings using IBM's watsonx.ai platform. **Note**: watsonx.ai library is an optional dependency. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/watsonx.png" alt="Watsonx Icon" width="140" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/ibm_watsonx_ai_embedding.md) |
+| [**VoyageAI Embeddings**](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/voyageai_embedding.md "voyageai") | 🌕 Voyage AI provides cutting-edge embedding and rerankers. This will help you get started with **VoyageAI** embedding models using LanceDB. Using voyageai API requires voyageai package. Install it via `pip`. | [<img src="https://www.voyageai.com/logo.svg" alt="VoyageAI Icon" width="140" height="35">](available_embedding_models/text_embedding_functions/voyageai_embedding.md) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 
-| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `name` | `str` | `"text-embedding-ada-002"` | The name of the model. |
-| `dim` | `int` |  Model default   | For OpenAI's newer text-embedding-3 model, we can specify a dimensionality that is smaller than the 1536 size. This feature supports it |
 
 
-```python
+[st-key]: "sentence-transformers"
-import lancedb
+[hf-key]: "huggingface"
-from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+[ollama-key]: "ollama"
-from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+[openai-key]: "openai"
+[instructor-key]: "instructor"
+[gemini-key]: "gemini-text"
+[cohere-key]: "cohere"
+[jina-key]: "jina"
+[aws-key]: "bedrock-text"
+[watsonx-key]: "watsonx"
+[voyageai-key]: "voyageai"
 
-db = lancedb.connect("/tmp/db")
-func = get_registry().get("openai").create(name="text-embedding-ada-002")
 
-class Words(LanceModel):
+## Multi-modal Embedding Functions🖼️ 
-    text: str = func.SourceField()
-    vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()
 
-table = db.create_table("words", schema=Words, mode="overwrite")
+Multi-modal embedding functions allow you to query your table using both images and text. 💬🖼️
-table.add(
-    [
-        {"text": "hello world"},
-        {"text": "goodbye world"}
-    ]
-    )
 
-query = "greetings"
+🌐 **Available Multi-modal Embeddings**
-actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]
-print(actual.text)
-```
 
-### Instructor Embeddings
+| Embedding :material-information-outline:{ title="Hover over the name to find out the model_id" }  | Description | Documentation  |
-[Instructor](https://instructor-embedding.github.io/) is an instruction-finetuned text embedding model that can generate text embeddings tailored to any task (e.g. classification, retrieval, clustering, text evaluation, etc.) and domains (e.g. science, finance, etc.) by simply providing the task instruction, without any finetuning.
+|-----------|-------------|---------------|
+| [**OpenClip Embeddings**](available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/openclip_embedding.md "open-clip") | 🎨 We support CLIP model embeddings using the open source alternative, **open-clip** which supports various customizations. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/openclip_github.png" alt="openclip Icon" width="150" height="35">](available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/openclip_embedding.md) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| [**Imagebind Embeddings**](available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/imagebind_embedding.md "imageind") | 🌌  We have support for **imagebind model embeddings**. You can download our version of the packaged model via - `pip install imagebind-packaged==0.1.2`. | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/imagebind_meta.png" alt="imagebind Icon" width="150" height="35">](available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/imagebind_embedding.md)|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| [**Jina Multi-modal Embeddings**](available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/jina_multimodal_embedding.md "jina") | 🔗 **Jina embeddings** can also be used to embed both **text** and **image** data, only some of the models support image data and you can check the detailed documentation. 👉 | [<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/main/docs/assets/logos/jina.png" alt="jina Icon" width="90" height="35">](available_embedding_models/multimodal_embedding_functions/jina_multimodal_embedding.md) |
 
-If you want to calculate customized embeddings for specific sentences, you can follow the unified template to write instructions.
+!!! note
-
+    If you'd like to request support for additional **embedding functions**, please feel free to open an issue on our LanceDB [GitHub issue page](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues).
-!!! info
-    Represent the `domain` `text_type` for `task_objective`:
-
-    * `domain` is optional, and it specifies the domain of the text, e.g. science, finance, medicine, etc.
-    * `text_type` is required, and it specifies the encoding unit, e.g. sentence, document, paragraph, etc.
-    * `task_objective` is optional, and it specifies the objective of embedding, e.g. retrieve a document, classify the sentence, etc.
-
-More information about the model can be found at the [source URL](https://github.com/xlang-ai/instructor-embedding).
-
-| Argument | Type | Default | Description |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `name` | `str` | "hkunlp/instructor-base" | The name of the model to use |
-| `batch_size` | `int` | `32` | The batch size to use when generating embeddings |
-| `device` | `str` | `"cpu"` | The device to use when generating embeddings |
-| `show_progress_bar` | `bool` | `True` | Whether to show a progress bar when generating embeddings |
-| `normalize_embeddings` | `bool` | `True` | Whether to normalize the embeddings |
-| `quantize` | `bool` | `False` | Whether to quantize the model |
-| `source_instruction` | `str` | `"represent the docuement for retreival"` | The instruction for the source column |
-| `query_instruction` | `str` | `"represent the document for retreiving the most similar documents"` | The instruction for the query |
-
-
-
-```python
-import lancedb
-from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
-from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry, InstuctorEmbeddingFunction
-
-instructor = get_registry().get("instructor").create(
-                            source_instruction="represent the docuement for retreival",
-                            query_instruction="represent the document for retreiving the most similar documents"
-                            )
-
-class Schema(LanceModel):
-    vector: Vector(instructor.ndims()) = instructor.VectorField()
-    text: str = instructor.SourceField()
-
-db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
-tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=Schema, mode="overwrite")
-
-texts = [{"text": "Capitalism has been dominant in the Western world since the end of feudalism, but most feel[who?] that..."},
-        {"text": "The disparate impact theory is especially controversial under the Fair Housing Act because the Act..."},
-        {"text": "Disparate impact in United States labor law refers to practices in employment, housing, and other areas that.."}]
-
-tbl.add(texts)
-```
-
-### Gemini Embeddings
-With Google's Gemini, you can represent text (words, sentences, and blocks of text) in a vectorized form, making it easier to compare and contrast embeddings. For example, two texts that share a similar subject matter or sentiment should have similar embeddings, which can be identified through mathematical comparison techniques such as cosine similarity. For more on how and why you should use embeddings, refer to the Embeddings guide.
-The Gemini Embedding Model API supports various task types:
-
-| Task Type               | Description                                                                                                                                                |
-|-------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| "`retrieval_query`"     | Specifies the given text is a query in a search/retrieval setting.                                                                                         |
-| "`retrieval_document`"  | Specifies the given text is a document in a search/retrieval setting. Using this task type requires a title but is automatically proided by Embeddings API |
-| "`semantic_similarity`" | Specifies the given text will be used for Semantic Textual Similarity (STS).                                                                               |
-| "`classification`"      | Specifies that the embeddings will be used for classification.                                                                                             |
-| "`clusering`"           | Specifies that the embeddings will be used for clustering.                                                                                                 |
-
-
-Usage Example:
-
-```python
-import lancedb
-import pandas as pd
-from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
-from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
-
-
-model = get_registry().get("gemini-text").create()
-
-class TextModel(LanceModel):
-    text: str = model.SourceField()
-    vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
-
-df = pd.DataFrame({"text": ["hello world", "goodbye world"]})
-db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
-tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
-
-tbl.add(df)
-rs = tbl.search("hello").limit(1).to_pandas()
-```
-
-### Cohere Embeddings
-Using cohere API requires cohere package, which can be installed using `pip install cohere`. Cohere embeddings are used to generate embeddings for text data. The embeddings can be used for various tasks like semantic search, clustering, and classification.
-You also need to set the `COHERE_API_KEY` environment variable to use the Cohere API.
-
-Supported models are:
-```
-    * embed-english-v3.0
-    * embed-multilingual-v3.0
-    * embed-english-light-v3.0
-    * embed-multilingual-light-v3.0
-    * embed-english-v2.0
-    * embed-english-light-v2.0
-    * embed-multilingual-v2.0
-```
-
-Supported parameters (to be passed in `create` method) are:
-
-| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `name` | `str` | `"embed-english-v2.0"` | The model ID of the cohere model to use. Supported base models for Text Embeddings: embed-english-v3.0, embed-multilingual-v3.0, embed-english-light-v3.0, embed-multilingual-light-v3.0, embed-english-v2.0, embed-english-light-v2.0, embed-multilingual-v2.0 |
-| `source_input_type` | `str` | `"search_document"` | The type of input data to be used for the source column. |
-| `query_input_type` | `str` | `"search_query"` | The type of input data to be used for the query. |
-
-Cohere supports following input types:
-| Input Type               | Description                          |
-|-------------------------|---------------------------------------|
-| "`search_document`"     | Used for embeddings stored in a vector|
-|                         | database for search use-cases.        |
-| "`search_query`"        | Used for embeddings of search queries |
-|                         | run against a vector DB               |
-| "`semantic_similarity`" | Specifies the given text will be used |
-|                         | for Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) |
-| "`classification`"      | Used for embeddings passed through a  |
-|                         | text classifier.                      |
-| "`clustering`"          | Used for the embeddings run through a |
-|                         | clustering algorithm                  |
-
-Usage Example:
-    
-    ```python
-        import lancedb
-        from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
-        from lancedb.embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
-
-        cohere = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
-            .get_instance()
-            .get("cohere")
-            .create(name="embed-multilingual-v2.0")
-
-        class TextModel(LanceModel):
-            text: str = cohere.SourceField()
-            vector: Vector(cohere.ndims()) =  cohere.VectorField()
-
-        data = [ { "text": "hello world" },
-                { "text": "goodbye world" }]
-
-        db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
-        tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
-
-        tbl.add(data)
-    ```
-
-### Jina Embeddings
-Jina embeddings are used to generate embeddings for text and image data.
-You also need to set the `JINA_API_KEY` environment variable to use the Jina API.
-
-You can find a list of supported models under [https://jina.ai/embeddings/](https://jina.ai/embeddings/)
-
-Supported parameters (to be passed in `create` method) are:
-
-| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `name` | `str` | `"jina-clip-v1"` | The model ID of the jina model to use |
-
-Usage Example:
-
-```python
-    import os
-    import lancedb
-    from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
-    from lancedb.embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
-
-    os.environ['JINA_API_KEY'] = 'jina_*'
-
-    jina_embed = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance().get("jina").create(name="jina-embeddings-v2-base-en")
-
-
-    class TextModel(LanceModel):
-        text: str = jina_embed.SourceField()
-        vector: Vector(jina_embed.ndims()) = jina_embed.VectorField()
-
-
-    data = [{"text": "hello world"},
-            {"text": "goodbye world"}]
-
-    db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb-2")
-    tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
-
-    tbl.add(data)
-```
-
-### AWS Bedrock Text Embedding Functions
-AWS Bedrock supports multiple base models for generating text embeddings. You need to setup the AWS credentials to use this embedding function.
-You can do so by using `awscli` and also add your session_token:
-```shell
-aws configure
-aws configure set aws_session_token "<your_session_token>"
-```
-to ensure that the credentials are set up correctly, you can run the following command:
-```shell
-aws sts get-caller-identity
-```
-
-Supported Embedding modelIDs are:
-* `amazon.titan-embed-text-v1`
-* `cohere.embed-english-v3`
-* `cohere.embed-multilingual-v3`
-
-Supported parameters (to be passed in `create` method) are:
-
-| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| **name** | str | "amazon.titan-embed-text-v1" | The model ID of the bedrock model to use. Supported base models for Text Embeddings: amazon.titan-embed-text-v1, cohere.embed-english-v3, cohere.embed-multilingual-v3 |
-| **region** | str | "us-east-1" | Optional name of the AWS Region in which the service should be called (e.g., "us-east-1"). |
-| **profile_name** | str | None | Optional name of the AWS profile to use for calling the Bedrock service. If not specified, the default profile will be used. |
-| **assumed_role** | str | None | Optional ARN of an AWS IAM role to assume for calling the Bedrock service. If not specified, the current active credentials will be used. |
-| **role_session_name** | str | "lancedb-embeddings" | Optional name of the AWS IAM role session to use for calling the Bedrock service. If not specified, a "lancedb-embeddings" name will be used. |
-| **runtime** | bool | True | Optional choice of getting different client to perform operations with the Amazon Bedrock service. |
-| **max_retries** | int | 7 | Optional number of retries to perform when a request fails. |
-
-Usage Example:
-
-```python
-import lancedb
-from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
-from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
-
-model = get_registry().get("bedrock-text").create()
-
-class TextModel(LanceModel):
-    text: str = model.SourceField()
-    vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
-
-df = pd.DataFrame({"text": ["hello world", "goodbye world"]})
-db = lancedb.connect("tmp_path")
-tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
-
-tbl.add(df)
-rs = tbl.search("hello").limit(1).to_pandas()
-```
-
-## Multi-modal embedding functions
-Multi-modal embedding functions allow you to query your table using both images and text.
-
-### OpenClip embeddings
-We support CLIP model embeddings using the open source alternative, [open-clip](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip) which supports various customizations. It is registered as `open-clip` and supports the following customizations:
-
-| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `name` | `str` | `"ViT-B-32"` | The name of the model. |
-| `pretrained` | `str` | `"laion2b_s34b_b79k"` | The name of the pretrained model to load. |
-| `device` | `str` | `"cpu"` | The device to run the model on. Can be `"cpu"` or `"gpu"`. |
-| `batch_size` | `int` | `64` | The number of images to process in a batch. |
-| `normalize` | `bool` | `True` | Whether to normalize the input images before feeding them to the model. |
-
-This embedding function supports ingesting images as both bytes and urls. You can query them using both test and other images.
-
-!!! info
-    LanceDB supports ingesting images directly from accessible links.
-
-```python
-import lancedb
-from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
-from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
-
-db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
-func = get_registry.get("open-clip").create()
-
-class Images(LanceModel):
-    label: str
-    image_uri: str = func.SourceField() # image uri as the source
-    image_bytes: bytes = func.SourceField() # image bytes as the source
-    vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField() # vector column 
-    vec_from_bytes: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField() # Another vector column 
-
-table = db.create_table("images", schema=Images)
-labels = ["cat", "cat", "dog", "dog", "horse", "horse"]
-uris = [
-    "http://farm1.staticflickr.com/53/167798175_7c7845bbbd_z.jpg",
-    "http://farm1.staticflickr.com/134/332220238_da527d8140_z.jpg",
-    "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8387/8602747737_2e5c2a45d4_z.jpg",
-    "http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4092/5017326486_1f46057f5f_z.jpg",
-    "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8216/8434969557_d37882c42d_z.jpg",
-    "http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5142/5835678453_4f3a4edb45_z.jpg",
-]
-# get each uri as bytes
-image_bytes = [requests.get(uri).content for uri in uris]
-table.add(
-    pd.DataFrame({"label": labels, "image_uri": uris, "image_bytes": image_bytes})
-)
-```
-Now we can search using text from both the default vector column and the custom vector column
-```python
-
-# text search
-actual = table.search("man's best friend").limit(1).to_pydantic(Images)[0]
-print(actual.label) # prints "dog"
-
-frombytes = (
-    table.search("man's best friend", vector_column_name="vec_from_bytes")
-    .limit(1)
-    .to_pydantic(Images)[0]
-)
-print(frombytes.label)
-
-```
-
-Because we're using a multi-modal embedding function, we can also search using images
-
-```python
-# image search
-query_image_uri = "http://farm1.staticflickr.com/200/467715466_ed4a31801f_z.jpg"
-image_bytes = requests.get(query_image_uri).content
-query_image = Image.open(io.BytesIO(image_bytes))
-actual = table.search(query_image).limit(1).to_pydantic(Images)[0]
-print(actual.label == "dog")
-
-# image search using a custom vector column
-other = (
-    table.search(query_image, vector_column_name="vec_from_bytes")
-    .limit(1)
-    .to_pydantic(Images)[0]
-)
-print(actual.label)
-
-```
-
-### Imagebind embeddings
-We have support for [imagebind](https://github.com/facebookresearch/ImageBind) model embeddings. You can download our version of the packaged model via - `pip install imagebind-packaged==0.1.2`.
-
-This function is registered as `imagebind` and supports Audio, Video and Text modalities(extending to Thermal,Depth,IMU data):
-
-| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `name` | `str` | `"imagebind_huge"` | Name of the model. |
-| `device` | `str` | `"cpu"` | The device to run the model on. Can be `"cpu"` or `"gpu"`. |
-| `normalize` | `bool` | `False` | set to `True` to normalize your inputs before model ingestion. |
-
-Below is an example demonstrating how the API works:
-
-```python
-import lancedb
-from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
-from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
-
-db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
-func = get_registry.get("imagebind").create()
-
-class ImageBindModel(LanceModel):
-    text: str
-    image_uri: str = func.SourceField()
-    audio_path: str
-    vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()
-
-# add locally accessible image paths
-text_list=["A dog.", "A car", "A bird"]
-image_paths=[".assets/dog_image.jpg", ".assets/car_image.jpg", ".assets/bird_image.jpg"]
-audio_paths=[".assets/dog_audio.wav", ".assets/car_audio.wav", ".assets/bird_audio.wav"]
-
-# Load data
-inputs = [
-    {"text": a, "audio_path": b, "image_uri": c}
-    for a, b, c in zip(text_list, audio_paths, image_paths)
-]
-
-#create table and add data
-table = db.create_table("img_bind", schema=ImageBindModel)
-table.add(inputs)
-```
-
-Now, we can search using any modality:
-
-#### image search
-```python
-query_image = "./assets/dog_image2.jpg" #download an image and enter that path here
-actual = table.search(query_image).limit(1).to_pydantic(ImageBindModel)[0]
-print(actual.text == "dog")
-```
-#### audio search
-
-```python
-query_audio = "./assets/car_audio2.wav" #download an audio clip and enter path here
-actual = table.search(query_audio).limit(1).to_pydantic(ImageBindModel)[0]
-print(actual.text == "car")
-```
-#### Text search
-You can add any input query and fetch the result as follows:
-```python
-query = "an animal which flies and tweets" 
-actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(ImageBindModel)[0]
-print(actual.text == "bird")
-```
-
-If you have any questions about the embeddings API, supported models, or see a relevant model missing, please raise an issue [on GitHub](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues).
-
-### Jina Embeddings
-Jina embeddings can also be used to embed both text and image data, only some of the models support image data and you can check the list
-under [https://jina.ai/embeddings/](https://jina.ai/embeddings/)
-
-Supported parameters (to be passed in `create` method) are:
-
-| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `name` | `str` | `"jina-clip-v1"` | The model ID of the jina model to use |
-
-Usage Example:
-
-```python
-    import os
-    import requests
-    import lancedb
-    from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
-    from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
-    import pandas as pd
-
-    os.environ['JINA_API_KEY'] = 'jina_*'
-
-    db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
-    func = get_registry().get("jina").create()
-
-
-    class Images(LanceModel):
-        label: str
-        image_uri: str = func.SourceField()  # image uri as the source
-        image_bytes: bytes = func.SourceField()  # image bytes as the source
-        vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()  # vector column
-        vec_from_bytes: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()  # Another vector column
-
-
-    table = db.create_table("images", schema=Images)
-    labels = ["cat", "cat", "dog", "dog", "horse", "horse"]
-    uris = [
-        "http://farm1.staticflickr.com/53/167798175_7c7845bbbd_z.jpg",
-        "http://farm1.staticflickr.com/134/332220238_da527d8140_z.jpg",
-        "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8387/8602747737_2e5c2a45d4_z.jpg",
-        "http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4092/5017326486_1f46057f5f_z.jpg",
-        "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8216/8434969557_d37882c42d_z.jpg",
-        "http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5142/5835678453_4f3a4edb45_z.jpg",
-    ]
-    # get each uri as bytes
-    image_bytes = [requests.get(uri).content for uri in uris]
-    table.add(
-      pd.DataFrame({"label": labels, "image_uri": uris, "image_bytes": image_bytes})
-    )
-```

docs/src/embeddings/embedding_functions.md

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Representing multi-modal data as vector embeddings is becoming a standard practi
 
 For this purpose, LanceDB introduces an **embedding functions API**, that allow you simply set up once, during the configuration stage of your project. After this, the table remembers it, effectively making the embedding functions *disappear in the background* so you don't have to worry about manually passing callables, and instead, simply focus on the rest of your data engineering pipeline.
 
-!!! Note "LanceDB cloud doesn't support embedding functions yet"
+!!! Note "Embedding functions on LanceDB cloud"
-    LanceDB Cloud does not support embedding functions yet. You need to generate embeddings before ingesting into the table or querying.
+    When using embedding functions with LanceDB cloud, the embeddings will be generated on the source device and sent to the cloud. This means that the source device must have the necessary resources to generate the embeddings.
 
 !!! warning
     Using the embedding function registry means that you don't have to explicitly generate the embeddings yourself.
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ the embeddings at all:
     === "@lancedb/lancedb"
 
         ```ts
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/embedding.ts:imports"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/embedding.test.ts:imports"
-        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/embedding.ts:embedding_function"
+        --8<-- "nodejs/examples/embedding.test.ts:embedding_function"
         ```
 
     === "vectordb (deprecated)"
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ need to worry about it when you query the table:
             .toArray()
         ```
 
-    === "vectordb (deprecated)
+    === "vectordb (deprecated)"
 
         ```ts
         const results = await table

docs/src/embeddings/index.md

@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ LanceDB registers the OpenAI embeddings function in the registry as `openai`. Yo
 === "TypeScript"
 
     ```typescript
-    --8<--- "nodejs/examples/embedding.ts:imports"
+    --8<--- "nodejs/examples/embedding.test.ts:imports"
-    --8<--- "nodejs/examples/embedding.ts:openai_embeddings"
+    --8<--- "nodejs/examples/embedding.test.ts:openai_embeddings"
     ```
 
 === "Rust"
@@ -99,34 +99,32 @@ LanceDB registers the Sentence Transformers embeddings function in the registry
 
     Coming Soon!
 
-### Jina Embeddings
+### Embedding function with LanceDB cloud
-
+Embedding functions are now supported on LanceDB cloud. The embeddings will be generated on the source device and sent to the cloud. This means that the source device must have the necessary resources to generate the embeddings. Here's an example using the OpenAI embedding function:
-LanceDB registers the JinaAI embeddings function in the registry as `jina`. You can pass any supported model name to the `create`. By default it uses `"jina-clip-v1"`.
-`jina-clip-v1` can handle both text and images and other models only support `text`.
-
-You need to pass `JINA_API_KEY` in the environment variable or pass it as `api_key` to `create` method.
 
 ```python
 import os
 import lancedb
 from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
 from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
-os.environ['JINA_API_KEY'] = "jina_*"
+os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = "..."
 
-db = lancedb.connect("/tmp/db")
+db = lancedb.connect(
-func = get_registry().get("jina").create(name="jina-clip-v1")
+  uri="db://....",
+  api_key="sk_...",
+  region="us-east-1"
+)
+func = get_registry().get("openai").create()
 
 class Words(LanceModel):
     text: str = func.SourceField()
     vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()
 
-table = db.create_table("words", schema=Words, mode="overwrite")
+table = db.create_table("words", schema=Words)
-table.add(
+table.add([
-    [
     {"text": "hello world"},
     {"text": "goodbye world"}
-    ]
+])
-    )
 
 query = "greetings"
 actual = table.search(query).limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]

docs/src/embeddings/understanding_embeddings.md

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+# Understand Embeddings
+
+The term **dimension** is a synonym for the number of elements in a feature vector. Each feature can be thought of as a different axis in a geometric space. 
+
+High-dimensional data means there are many features(or attributes) in the data.
+
+!!! example
+     1. An image is a data point and it might have thousands of dimensions because each pixel could be considered as a feature. 
+
+     2. Text data, when represented by each word or character, can also lead to high dimensions, especially when considering all possible words in a language.
+
+Embedding captures **meaning and relationships** within data by mapping high-dimensional data into a lower-dimensional space. It captures it by placing inputs that are more **similar in meaning** closer together in the **embedding space**. 
+
+## What are Vector Embeddings?
+
+Vector embeddings is a way to convert complex data, like text, images, or audio into numerical coordinates (called vectors) that can be plotted in an n-dimensional space(embedding space). 
+
+The closer these data points are related in the real world, the closer their corresponding numerical coordinates (vectors) will be to each other in the embedding space. This proximity in the embedding space reflects their semantic similarities, allowing machines to intuitively understand and process the data in a way that mirrors human perception of relationships and meaning.
+
+In a way, it captures the most important aspects of the data while ignoring the less important ones. As a result, tasks like searching for related content or identifying patterns become more efficient and accurate, as the embeddings make it possible to quantify how **closely related** different **data points** are and **reduce** the **computational complexity**.
+
+??? question "Are vectors and embeddings the same thing?"
+
+    When we say “vectors” we mean - **list of numbers** that **represents the data**. 
+    When we say “embeddings” we mean - **list of numbers** that **capture important details and relationships**.
+
+    Although the terms are often used interchangeably, “embeddings” highlight how the data is represented with meaning and structure, while “vector” simply refers to the numerical form of that representation.
+
+## Embedding vs Indexing
+
+We already saw that creating **embeddings** on data is a method of creating **vectors** for a **n-dimensional embedding space** that captures the meaning and relationships inherent in the data.
+
+Once we have these **vectors**, indexing comes into play. Indexing is a method of organizing these vector embeddings, that allows us to quickly and efficiently locate and retrieve them from the entire dataset of vector embeddings.
+
+## What types of data/objects can be embedded?
+
+The following are common types of data that can be embedded:
+
+1. **Text**: Text data includes sentences, paragraphs, documents, or any written content.
+2. **Images**:  Image data encompasses photographs, illustrations, or any visual content.
+3. **Audio**: Audio data includes sounds, music, speech, or any auditory content.
+4. **Video**:  Video data consists of moving images and sound, which can convey complex information.
+
+Large datasets of multi-modal data (text, audio, images, etc.) can be converted into embeddings with the appropriate model.
+
+!!! tip "LanceDB vs Other traditional Vector DBs"
+    While many vector databases primarily focus on the storage and retrieval of vector embeddings, **LanceDB** uses **Lance file format** (operates on a disk-based architecture), which allows for the storage and management of not just embeddings but also **raw file data (bytes)**. This capability means that users can integrate various types of data, including images and text, alongside their vector embeddings in a unified system.
+
+    With the ability to store both vectors and associated file data, LanceDB enhances the querying process. Users can perform semantic searches that not only retrieve similar embeddings but also access related files and metadata, thus streamlining the workflow.
+
+## How does embedding works?
+
+As mentioned, after creating embedding, each data point is represented as a vector in a n-dimensional space (embedding space). The dimensionality of this space can vary depending on the complexity of the data and the specific embedding technique used.
+
+Points that are close to each other in vector space are considered similar (or appear in similar contexts), and points that are far away are considered dissimilar. To quantify this closeness, we use distance as a metric which can be measured in the  following way - 
+
+1. **Euclidean Distance (l2)**: It calculates the straight-line distance between two points (vectors) in a multidimensional space.
+2. **Cosine Similarity**: It measures the cosine of the angle between two vectors, providing a normalized measure of similarity based on their direction.
+3. **Dot product**: It is calculated as the sum of the products of their corresponding components. To measure relatedness it considers both the magnitude and direction of the vectors.
+
+## How do you create and store vector embeddings for your data?
+
+1. **Creating embeddings**: Choose an embedding model, it can be a pre-trained model (open-source or commercial) or you can train a custom embedding model for your scenario. Then feed your preprocessed data into the chosen model to obtain embeddings.
+
+??? question "Popular choices for embedding models"
+    For text data, popular choices are OpenAI’s text-embedding models, Google Gemini text-embedding models, Cohere’s Embed models, and SentenceTransformers, etc.
+
+    For image data, popular choices are CLIP (Contrastive Language–Image Pretraining), Imagebind embeddings by meta (supports audio, video, and image), and Jina multi-modal embeddings, etc.
+
+2. **Storing vector embeddings**: This effectively requires **specialized databases** that can handle the complexity of vector data, as traditional databases often struggle with this task. Vector databases are designed specifically for storing and querying vector embeddings. They optimize for efficient nearest-neighbor searches and provide built-in indexing mechanisms.
+
+!!! tip "Why LanceDB"
+    LanceDB **automates** the entire process of creating and storing embeddings for your data. LanceDB allows you to define and use **embedding functions**, which can be **pre-trained models** or **custom models**. 
+    
+    This enables you to **generate** embeddings tailored to the nature of your data (e.g., text, images) and **store** both the **original data** and **embeddings** in a **structured schema** thus providing efficient querying capabilities for similarity searches.
+
+Let's quickly [get started](./index.md) and learn how to manage embeddings in LanceDB. 
+
+## Bonus: As a developer, what you can create using embeddings?
+
+As a developer, you can create a variety of innovative applications using vector embeddings. Check out the following - 
+
+<div class="grid cards" markdown>
+
+-   __Chatbots__
+
+    ---
+
+    Develop chatbots that utilize embeddings to retrieve relevant context and generate coherent, contextually aware responses to user queries.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Check out examples](../examples/python_examples/chatbot.md)
+
+-   __Recommendation Systems__
+
+    ---
+
+    Develop systems that recommend content (such as articles, movies, or products) based on the similarity of keywords and descriptions, enhancing user experience.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Check out examples](../examples/python_examples/recommendersystem.md)
+
+-   __Vector Search__
+
+    ---
+
+    Build powerful applications that harness the full potential of semantic search, enabling them to retrieve relevant data quickly and effectively. 
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Check out examples](../examples/python_examples/vector_search.md)
+
+-   __RAG Applications__
+
+    ---
+
+    Combine the strengths of large language models (LLMs) with retrieval-based approaches to create more useful applications.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Check out examples](../examples/python_examples/rag.md)
+
+-   __Many more examples__
+
+    ---
+
+    Explore applied examples available as Colab notebooks or Python scripts to integrate into your applications.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: More](../examples/examples_python.md)
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

docs/src/embeddings/variables_and_secrets.md

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Variable and Secrets
+
+Most embedding configuration options are saved in the table's metadata. However,
+this isn't always appropriate. For example, API keys should never be stored in the
+metadata. Additionally, other configuration options might be best set at runtime,
+such as the `device` configuration that controls whether to use GPU or CPU for
+inference. If you hardcoded this to GPU, you wouldn't be able to run the code on
+a server without one.
+
+To handle these cases, you can set variables on the embedding registry and
+reference them in the embedding configuration. These variables will be available
+during the runtime of your program, but not saved in the table's metadata. When
+the table is loaded from a different process, the variables must be set again.
+
+To set a variable, use the `set_var()` / `setVar()` method on the embedding registry.
+To reference a variable, use the syntax `$env:VARIABLE_NAME`. If there is a default
+value, you can use the syntax `$env:VARIABLE_NAME:DEFAULT_VALUE`.
+
+## Using variables to set secrets
+
+Sensitive configuration, such as API keys, must either be set as environment
+variables or using variables on the embedding registry. If you pass in a hardcoded
+value, LanceDB will raise an error. Instead, if you want to set an API key via
+configuration, use a variable:
+
+=== "Python"
+
+    ```python
+    --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_embeddings_optional.py:register_secret"
+    ```
+
+=== "Typescript"
+
+    ```typescript
+    --8<-- "nodejs/examples/embedding.test.ts:register_secret"
+    ```
+
+## Using variables to set the device parameter
+
+Many embedding functions that run locally have a `device` parameter that controls
+whether to use GPU or CPU for inference. Because not all computers have a GPU,
+it's helpful to be able to set the `device` parameter at runtime, rather than
+have it hard coded in the embedding configuration. To make it work even if the
+variable isn't set, you could provide a default value of `cpu` in the embedding
+configuration.
+
+Some embedding libraries even have a method to detect which devices are available,
+which could be used to dynamically set the device at runtime. For example, in Python
+you can check if a CUDA GPU is available using `torch.cuda.is_available()`.
+
+```python
+--8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_embeddings_optional.py:register_device"
+```

docs/src/examples/examples_python.md

@@ -1,17 +1,22 @@
-# Examples: Python
+# Overview : Python Examples 
 
-To help you get started, we provide some examples, projects and applications that use the LanceDB Python API. You can always find the latest examples in our [VectorDB Recipes](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes) repository.
+To help you get started, we provide some examples, projects, and applications that use the LanceDB Python API. These examples are designed to get you right into the code with minimal introduction, enabling you to move from an idea to a proof of concept in minutes. 
 
-| Example | Interactive Envs | Scripts  |
+You can find the latest examples in our [VectorDB Recipes](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes) repository. 
-|-------- | ---------------- | ------   |
+
-| | | |
+**Introduction**
-| [Youtube transcript search bot](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/youtube_bot/) | <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/youtube_bot/main.ipynb"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="Open In Colab"></a>| [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3670A0?style=for-the-badge&logo=python&logoColor=ffdd54)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/youtube_bot/main.py)|
+
-| [Langchain: Code Docs QA bot](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/Code-Documentation-QA-Bot/) | <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Code-Documentation-QA-Bot/main.ipynb"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="Open In Colab"></a>| [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3670A0?style=for-the-badge&logo=python&logoColor=ffdd54)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/Code-Documentation-QA-Bot/main.py) |
+Explore applied examples available as Colab notebooks or Python scripts to integrate into your applications. You can also checkout our blog posts related to the particular example for deeper understanding.
-| [AI Agents: Reducing Hallucination](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/reducing_hallucinations_ai_agents/) | <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/reducing_hallucinations_ai_agents/main.ipynb"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="Open In Colab"></a>| [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3670A0?style=for-the-badge&logo=python&logoColor=ffdd54)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/reducing_hallucinations_ai_agents/main.py)|
+
-| [Multimodal CLIP: DiffusionDB](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/multimodal_clip/) | <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/multimodal_clip/main.ipynb"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="Open In Colab"></a>| [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3670A0?style=for-the-badge&logo=python&logoColor=ffdd54)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/multimodal_clip/main.py)  |
+| Explore                                         | Description                                                                                                                                                      |
-| [Multimodal CLIP: Youtube videos](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/multimodal_video_search/) | <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/multimodal_video_search/main.ipynb"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="Open In Colab"></a>| [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3670A0?style=for-the-badge&logo=python&logoColor=ffdd54)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/multimodal_video_search/main.py)  |
+|----------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| [Movie Recommender](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/movie-recommender/) | <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/movie-recommender/main.ipynb"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="Open In Colab"></a> | [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3670A0?style=for-the-badge&logo=python&logoColor=ffdd54)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/movie-recommender/main.py)  |
+| [**Build from Scratch with LanceDB** 🛠️🚀](python_examples/build_from_scratch.md)               | Start building your **GenAI applications** from the **ground up** using **LanceDB's** efficient vector-based document retrieval capabilities! Get started quickly with a solid foundation.      |
-| [Audio Search](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/audio_search/) | <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/audio_search/main.ipynb"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="Open In Colab"></a> | [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3670A0?style=for-the-badge&logo=python&logoColor=ffdd54)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/audio_search/main.py)  |
+| [**Multimodal Search with LanceDB** 🤹‍♂️🔍](python_examples/multimodal.md)               | Combine **text** and **image queries** to find the most relevant results using **LanceDB’s multimodal** capabilities. Leverage the efficient vector-based similarity search.   |
-| [Multimodal Image + Text Search](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/multimodal_search/) | <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/multimodal_search/main.ipynb"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="Open In Colab"></a> | [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3670A0?style=for-the-badge&logo=python&logoColor=ffdd54)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/multimodal_search/main.py)  |
+| [**RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with LanceDB** 🔓🧐](python_examples/rag.md) | Build RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with **LanceDB** for efficient **vector-based information retrieval** and more accurate responses from AI.                    |
-| [Evaluating Prompts with Prompttools](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/prompttools-eval-prompts/) | <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/prompttools-eval-prompts/main.ipynb"><img src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg" alt="Open In Colab"></a> |  |
+| [**Vector Search: Efficient Retrieval** 🔓👀](python_examples/vector_search.md) | Use **LanceDB's** vector search capabilities to perform efficient and accurate **similarity searches**, enabling rapid discovery and retrieval of relevant documents in Large datasets.                                                 |
+| [**Chatbot applications with LanceDB** 🤖](python_examples/chatbot.md)                | Create **chatbots** that retrieves relevant context for **coherent and context-aware replies**, enhancing user experience through advanced conversational AI. |
+| [**Evaluation: Assessing Text Performance with Precision** 📊💡](python_examples/evaluations.md) | Develop **evaluation** applications that allows you to input reference and candidate texts to **measure** their performance across various metrics.                                                      |
+| [**AI Agents: Intelligent Collaboration** 🤖](python_examples/aiagent.md)              | Enable **AI agents** to communicate and collaborate efficiently through dense vector representations, achieving shared goals seamlessly.                                         |
+| [**Recommender Systems: Personalized Discovery** 🍿📺](python_examples/recommendersystem.md)      | Deliver **personalized experiences** by efficiently storing and querying item embeddings with **LanceDB's** powerful vector database capabilities.                        |
+| **Miscellaneous Examples🌟** | Find other **unique examples** and **creative solutions** using **LanceDB**, showcasing the flexibility and broad applicability of the platform. |
 

docs/src/examples/index.md

@@ -8,9 +8,5 @@ LanceDB provides language APIs, allowing you to embed a database in your languag
 * 👾 [JavaScript](examples_js.md) examples
 * 🦀 Rust examples (coming soon)
 
-## Applications powered by LanceDB
+!!! tip "Hosted LanceDB"
-
+    If you want S3 cost-efficiency and local performance via a simple serverless API, checkout **LanceDB Cloud**. For private deployments, high performance at extreme scale, or if you have strict security requirements, talk to us about **LanceDB Enterprise**. [Learn more](https://docs.lancedb.com/)
-| Project Name                                        | Description                                                                                                          | Screenshot                                |
-|-----------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
-| [YOLOExplorer](https://github.com/lancedb/yoloexplorer) | Iterate on your YOLO / CV datasets using SQL, Vector semantic search, and more within seconds                  | ![YOLOExplorer](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/assets/15766192/ae513a29-8f15-4e0b-99a1-ccd8272b6131) |
-| [Website Chatbot (Deployable Vercel Template)](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb-vercel-chatbot) | Create a chatbot from the sitemap of any website/docs of your choice. Built using vectorDB serverless native javascript package. | ![Chatbot](../assets/vercel-template.gif)    |

docs/src/examples/python_examples/aiagent.md

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+# AI Agents: Intelligent Collaboration🤖
+
+Think of a platform where AI Agents can seamlessly exchange information, coordinate over tasks, and achieve shared targets with great efficiency💻📈.
+
+## Vector-Based Coordination: The Technical Advantage
+Leveraging LanceDB's vector-based capabilities, we can enable **AI agents 🤖** to communicate and collaborate through dense vector representations. AI agents can exchange information, coordinate on a task or work towards a common goal, just by giving queries📝.
+
+| **AI Agents** | **Description** | **Links** |
+|:--------------|:----------------|:----------|
+| **AI Agents: Reducing Hallucinationt📊** | 🤖💡 **Reduce AI hallucinations** using Critique-Based Contexting! Learn by Simplifying and Automating tedious workflows by going through fitness trainer agent example.💪 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][hullucination_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][hullucination_colab] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][hullucination_python] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][hullucination_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
+| **AI Trends Searcher: CrewAI🔍️** | 🔍️ Learn about **CrewAI Agents** ! Utilize the features of CrewAI - Role-based Agents, Task Management, and Inter-agent Delegation ! Make AI agents work together to do tricky stuff 😺| [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][trend_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][trend_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][trend_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
+| **SuperAgent Autogen🤖** | 💻 AI interactions with the Super Agent! Integrating **Autogen**, **LanceDB**, **LangChain**, **LiteLLM**, and **Ollama** to create AI agent that excels in understanding and processing complex queries.🤖 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][superagent_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][superagent_colab] |
+
+
+[hullucination_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/reducing_hallucinations_ai_agents
+[hullucination_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/reducing_hallucinations_ai_agents/main.ipynb
+[hullucination_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/reducing_hallucinations_ai_agents/main.py
+[hullucination_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/how-to-reduce-hallucinations-from-llm-powered-agents-using-long-term-memory-72f262c3cc1f/
+
+[trend_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/AI-Trends-with-CrewAI
+[trend_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/AI-Trends-with-CrewAI/CrewAI_AI_Trends.ipynb 
+[trend_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/track-ai-trends-crewai-agents-rag/
+
+[superagent_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/SuperAgent_Autogen
+[superagent_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/SuperAgent_Autogen/main.ipynb
+
+

docs/src/examples/python_examples/build_from_scratch.md

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+# **Build from Scratch with LanceDB 🛠️🚀**
+
+Start building your GenAI applications from the ground up using **LanceDB's** efficient vector-based document retrieval capabilities! 📑
+
+**Get Started in Minutes ⏱️**
+
+These examples provide a solid foundation for building your own GenAI applications using LanceDB. Jump from idea to **proof of concept** quickly with applied examples. Get started and see what you can create! 💻
+
+| **Build From Scratch**                     | **Description**                                                                                              | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
+|:-------------------------------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **Build RAG from Scratch🚀💻**             | 📝 Create a **Retrieval-Augmented Generation** (RAG) model from scratch using LanceDB.                       | [![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/github-%23121011.svg?style=for-the-badge&logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/tutorials/RAG-from-Scratch)<br>[![Open In Collab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)]()                                                                                                                                  |
+| **Local RAG from Scratch with Llama3🔥💡** | 🐫 Build a local RAG model using **Llama3** and **LanceDB** for fast and efficient text generation.          | [![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/github-%23121011.svg?style=for-the-badge&logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/tutorials/Local-RAG-from-Scratch)<br>[![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3670A0?style=for-the-badge&logo=python&logoColor=ffdd54)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/Local-RAG-from-Scratch/rag.py)    |
+| **Multi-Head RAG from Scratch📚💻**        | 🤯 Develop a **Multi-Head RAG model** from scratch, enabling generation of text based on multiple documents. | [![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/github-%23121011.svg?style=for-the-badge&logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/tutorials/Multi-Head-RAG-from-Scratch)<br>[![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3670A0?style=for-the-badge&logo=python&logoColor=ffdd54)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/tutorials/Multi-Head-RAG-from-Scratch) |

docs/src/examples/python_examples/chatbot.md

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+**Chatbot applications with LanceDB 🤖**
+====================================================================
+
+ Create innovative chatbot applications that utilizes LanceDB for efficient vector-based response generation! 🌐✨ 
+ 
+**Introduction 👋✨**
+
+ Users can input their queries, allowing the chatbot to retrieve relevant context seamlessly. 🔍📚 This enables the generation of coherent and context-aware replies that enhance user experience. 🌟🤝 Dive into the world of advanced conversational AI and streamline interactions with powerful data management! 🚀💡
+
+
+| **Chatbot**  | **Description**  | **Links**  |
+|:----------------|:-----------------|:-----------|
+| **Databricks DBRX Website Bot ⚡️** | Engage with the **Hogwarts chatbot**, that uses Open-source RAG with **DBRX**, **LanceDB** and **LLama-index with Hugging Face Embeddings**, to provide interactive and engaging user experiences. ✨ | [![GitHub](../../assets/github.svg)][databricks_github] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][databricks_python] |
+| **CLI SDK Manual Chatbot Locally 💻** | CLI chatbot for SDK/hardware documents using **Local RAG** with **LLama3**, **Ollama**, **LanceDB**, and **Openhermes Embeddings**, built with **Phidata** Assistant and Knowledge Base 🤖 | [![GitHub](../../assets/github.svg)][clisdk_github] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][clisdk_python] |
+| **Youtube Transcript Search QA Bot 📹** |  Search through **youtube transcripts** using natural language with a Q&A bot, leveraging **LanceDB** for effortless data storage and management 💬 | [![GitHub](../../assets/github.svg)][youtube_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][youtube_colab] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][youtube_python] |
+| **Code Documentation Q&A Bot with LangChain 🤖** | Query your own documentation easily using questions in natural language with a Q&A bot, powered by **LangChain** and **LanceDB**, demonstrated with **Numpy 1.26 docs** 📚 | [![GitHub](../../assets/github.svg)][docs_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][docs_colab] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][docs_python] |
+| **Context-aware Chatbot using Llama 2 & LanceDB 🤖** | Build **conversational AI** with a **context-aware chatbot**, powered by **Llama 2**, **LanceDB**, and **LangChain**, that enables intuitive and meaningful conversations with your data 📚💬 | [![GitHub](../../assets/github.svg)][aware_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][aware_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][aware_ghost] |
+| **Chat with csv using Hybrid Search 📊** | **Chat** application that interacts with **CSV** and **Excel files** using **LanceDB’s** hybrid search capabilities, performing direct operations on large-scale columnar data efficiently 🚀 | [![GitHub](../../assets/github.svg)][csv_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][csv_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][csv_ghost] |
+
+
+[databricks_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/databricks_DBRX_website_bot
+[databricks_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/databricks_DBRX_website_bot/main.py
+
+[clisdk_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/CLI-SDK-Manual-Chatbot-Locally
+[clisdk_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/CLI-SDK-Manual-Chatbot-Locally/assistant.py
+
+[youtube_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Youtube-Search-QA-Bot
+[youtube_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Youtube-Search-QA-Bot/main.ipynb
+[youtube_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Youtube-Search-QA-Bot/main.py
+
+[docs_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Code-Documentation-QA-Bot
+[docs_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Code-Documentation-QA-Bot/main.ipynb
+[docs_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Code-Documentation-QA-Bot/main.py
+
+[aware_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/chatbot_using_Llama2_&_lanceDB
+[aware_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/chatbot_using_Llama2_&_lanceDB/main.ipynb
+[aware_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/context-aware-chatbot-using-llama-2-lancedb-as-vector-database-4d771d95c755
+
+[csv_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/archived_examples/Chat_with_csv_file
+[csv_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/Chat_with_csv_file/main.ipynb
+[csv_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/p/d8c71df4-e55f-479a-819e-cde13354a6a3/

docs/src/examples/python_examples/evaluations.md

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+**Evaluation: Assessing Text Performance with Precision 📊💡**
+====================================================================
+
+Evaluation is a comprehensive tool designed to measure the performance of text-based inputs, enabling data-driven optimization and improvement 📈. 
+
+**Text Evaluation 101 📚**
+
+Using robust framework for assessing reference and candidate texts across various metrics📊, ensure that the text outputs are high-quality and meet specific requirements and standards📝.
+
+| **Evaluation** | **Description** | **Links** |
+| -------------- | --------------- | --------- |
+| **Evaluating Prompts with Prompttools 🤖** | Compare, visualize & evaluate **embedding functions** (incl. OpenAI) across metrics like latency & custom evaluation 📈📊 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][prompttools_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][prompttools_colab] |
+| **Evaluating RAG with RAGAs and GPT-4o 📊** | Evaluate **RAG pipelines** with cutting-edge metrics and tools, integrate with CI/CD for continuous performance checks, and generate responses with GPT-4o 🤖📈 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][RAGAs_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][RAGAs_colab] |
+
+
+
+[prompttools_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/prompttools-eval-prompts
+[prompttools_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/prompttools-eval-prompts/main.ipynb
+
+[RAGAs_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Evaluating_RAG_with_RAGAs
+[RAGAs_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Evaluating_RAG_with_RAGAs/Evaluating_RAG_with_RAGAs.ipynb

docs/src/examples/python_examples/multimodal.md

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+# **Multimodal Search with LanceDB 🤹‍♂️🔍**
+
+Using LanceDB's multimodal capabilities, combine text and image queries to find the most relevant results in your corpus ! 🔓💡
+
+**Explore the Future of Search 🚀**
+
+LanceDB supports multimodal search by indexing and querying vector representations of text and image data 🤖. This enables efficient retrieval of relevant documents and images using vector-based similarity search 📊. The platform facilitates cross-modal search, allowing for text-image and image-text retrieval, and supports scalable indexing of high-dimensional vector spaces 💻.
+
+
+
+| **Multimodal**  | **Description**  | **Links**  |
+|:----------------|:-----------------|:-----------|
+| **Multimodal CLIP: DiffusionDB 🌐💥**    | Multi-Modal Search with **CLIP** and **LanceDB** Using **DiffusionDB** Data for Combined Text and Image Understanding ! 🔓 | [![GitHub](../../assets/github.svg)][Clip_diffusionDB_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][Clip_diffusionDB_colab] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][Clip_diffusionDB_python] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][Clip_diffusionDB_ghost] |
+| **Multimodal CLIP: Youtube Videos 📹👀** | Search **Youtube videos** using Multimodal CLIP, finding relevant content with ease and accuracy! 🎯                                                                                                                                                                | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][Clip_youtube_github]                                                                                                    <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][Clip_youtube_colab]                                                                                           <br> [![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][Clip_youtube_python]         <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][Clip_youtube_python] |
+| **Multimodal Image + Text Search 📸🔍**               | Find **relevant documents** and **images** with a single query using **LanceDB's** multimodal search capabilities, to seamlessly integrate text and visuals ! 🌉 | [![GitHub](../../assets/github.svg)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/archived_examples/multimodal_search) <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/multimodal_search/main.ipynb) <br> [![Python](../../assets/python.svg)](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/multimodal_search/main.py)<br> [![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)](https://blog.lancedb.com/multi-modal-ai-made-easy-with-lancedb-clip-5aaf8801c939/) |
+| **Cambrian-1: Vision-Centric Image Exploration 🔍👀** | Learn how **Cambrian-1** works, using an example of **Vision-Centric** exploration on images found through vector search ! Work on **Flickr-8k** dataset 🔎                        | [![Kaggle](https://img.shields.io/badge/Kaggle-035a7d?style=for-the-badge&logo=kaggle&logoColor=white)](https://www.kaggle.com/code/prasantdixit/cambrian-1-vision-centric-exploration-of-images/)<br> [![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)](https://blog.lancedb.com/cambrian-1-vision-centric-exploration/)                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+
+
+[Clip_diffusionDB_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/multimodal_clip_diffusiondb
+[Clip_diffusionDB_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/multimodal_clip_diffusiondb/main.ipynb
+[Clip_diffusionDB_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/multimodal_clip_diffusiondb/main.py
+[Clip_diffusionDB_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/multi-modal-ai-made-easy-with-lancedb-clip-5aaf8801c939/
+
+
+[Clip_youtube_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/multimodal_video_search
+[Clip_youtube_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/multimodal_video_search/main.ipynb
+[Clip_youtube_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/multimodal_video_search/main.py
+[Clip_youtube_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/multi-modal-ai-made-easy-with-lancedb-clip-5aaf8801c939/

docs/src/examples/python_examples/rag.md

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+**RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with LanceDB 🔓🧐**
+====================================================================
+
+Build RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with  LanceDB, a powerful solution for efficient vector-based information retrieval 📊. 
+
+**Experience the Future of Search 🔄**
+
+🤖 RAG enables AI to **retrieve** relevant information from external sources and use it to **generate** more accurate and context-specific responses. 💻 LanceDB provides a robust framework for integrating LLMs with external knowledge sources 📝.
+
+| **RAG**                                      | **Description**                                                                                                                                                  | **Links**                  |
+|----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|                                                                                                                                                     
+| **RAG with Matryoshka Embeddings and LlamaIndex** 🪆🔗  | Utilize **Matryoshka embeddings** and **LlamaIndex** to improve the efficiency and accuracy of your RAG models. 📈✨ | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][matryoshka_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][matryoshka_colab]  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **Improve RAG with Re-ranking** 📈🔄 | Enhance your RAG applications by implementing **re-ranking strategies** for more relevant document retrieval. 📚🔍 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][rag_reranking_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][rag_reranking_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][rag_reranking_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **Instruct-Multitask** 🧠🎯 |  Integrate the **Instruct Embedding Model** with LanceDB to streamline your embedding API, reducing redundant code and overhead. 🌐📊 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][instruct_multitask_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][instruct_multitask_colab] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][instruct_multitask_python] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][instruct_multitask_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **Improve RAG with HyDE** 🌌🔍 | Use **Hypothetical Document Embeddings** for efficient, accurate, and unsupervised dense retrieval. 📄🔍 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][hyde_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][hyde_colab]<br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][hyde_ghost]                 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **Improve RAG with LOTR** 🧙‍♂️📜 | Enhance RAG with **Lord of the Retriever (LOTR)** to address 'Lost in the Middle' challenges, especially in medical data. 🌟📜 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][lotr_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][lotr_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][lotr_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **Advanced RAG: Parent Document Retriever** 📑🔗 | Use **Parent Document & Bigger Chunk Retriever** to maintain context and relevance when generating related content. 🎵📄 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][parent_doc_retriever_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][parent_doc_retriever_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][parent_doc_retriever_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **Corrective RAG with Langgraph** 🔧📊 | Enhance RAG reliability with **Corrective RAG (CRAG)** by self-reflecting and fact-checking for accurate and trustworthy results. ✅🔍 |[![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][corrective_rag_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][corrective_rag_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][corrective_rag_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **Contextual Compression with RAG** 🗜️🧠 | Apply **contextual compression techniques** to condense large documents while retaining essential information. 📄🗜️                                               | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][compression_rag_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][compression_rag_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][compression_rag_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **Improve RAG with FLARE** 🔥|  Enable users to ask questions directly to **academic papers**, focusing on **ArXiv papers**, with **F**orward-**L**ooking **A**ctive **RE**trieval augmented generation.🚀🌟                                                                       | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][flare_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][flare_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][flare_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **Query Expansion and Reranker** 🔍🔄 | Enhance RAG with query expansion using Large Language Models and advanced **reranking methods** like **Cross Encoders**, **ColBERT v2**, and **FlashRank** for improved document retrieval precision and recall 🔍📈                                                         | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][query_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][query_colab] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **RAG Fusion** ⚡🌐 | Build RAG Fusion, utilize the **RRF algorithm** to rerank documents based on user queries ! Use **LanceDB** as vector database to store and retrieve documents related to queries via **OPENAI Embeddings**⚡🌐                                                                          | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][fusion_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][fusion_colab] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+| **Agentic RAG** 🤖📚 | Build autonomous information retrieval with **Agentic RAG**, a framework of **intelligent agents** that collaborate to synthesize, summarize, and compare data across sources, that enables proactive and informed decision-making 🤖📚                                                              | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][agentic_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][agentic_colab] |
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+[matryoshka_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/RAG-with_MatryoshkaEmbed-Llamaindex
+[matryoshka_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/RAG-with_MatryoshkaEmbed-Llamaindex/RAG_with_MatryoshkaEmbedding_and_Llamaindex.ipynb
+
+[rag_reranking_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/RAG_Reranking
+[rag_reranking_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/RAG_Reranking/main.ipynb
+[rag_reranking_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/simplest-method-to-improve-rag-pipeline-re-ranking-cf6eaec6d544
+
+
+[instruct_multitask_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/instruct-multitask
+[instruct_multitask_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/instruct-multitask/main.ipynb
+[instruct_multitask_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/instruct-multitask/main.py
+[instruct_multitask_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/multitask-embedding-with-lancedb-be18ec397543
+
+[hyde_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Advance-RAG-with-HyDE
+[hyde_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Advance-RAG-with-HyDE/main.ipynb
+[hyde_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/advanced-rag-precise-zero-shot-dense-retrieval-with-hyde-0946c54dfdcb
+
+[lotr_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Advance_RAG_LOTR
+[lotr_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Advance_RAG_LOTR/main.ipynb
+[lotr_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/better-rag-with-lotr-lord-of-retriever-23c8336b9a35
+
+[parent_doc_retriever_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/parent_document_retriever
+[parent_doc_retriever_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/parent_document_retriever/main.ipynb
+[parent_doc_retriever_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/modified-rag-parent-document-bigger-chunk-retriever-62b3d1e79bc6
+
+[corrective_rag_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/Corrective-RAG-with_Langgraph
+[corrective_rag_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/Corrective-RAG-with_Langgraph/CRAG_with_Langgraph.ipynb
+[corrective_rag_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/implementing-corrective-rag-in-the-easiest-way-2/
+
+[compression_rag_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Contextual-Compression-with-RAG
+[compression_rag_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Contextual-Compression-with-RAG/main.ipynb
+[compression_rag_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/enhance-rag-integrate-contextual-compression-and-filtering-for-precision-a29d4a810301/
+
+[flare_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/better-rag-FLAIR
+[flare_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/better-rag-FLAIR/main.ipynb
+[flare_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/better-rag-with-active-retrieval-augmented-generation-flare-3b66646e2a9f/
+
+[query_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/archived_examples/QueryExpansion%26Reranker
+[query_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/QueryExpansion&Reranker/main.ipynb
+
+
+[fusion_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/archived_examples/RAG_Fusion
+[fusion_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/RAG_Fusion/main.ipynb
+
+[agentic_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/Agentic_RAG
+[agentic_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/Agentic_RAG/main.ipynb
+
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+**Recommender Systems: Personalized Discovery🍿📺**
+==============================================================
+Deliver personalized experiences with Recommender Systems. 🎁
+
+**Technical Overview📜**
+
+🔍️ LanceDB's powerful vector database capabilities can efficiently store and query item embeddings. Recommender Systems can utilize it and provide personalized recommendations based on user preferences 🤝 and item features 📊 and therefore enhance the user experience.🗂️ 
+
+| **Recommender System** | **Description** | **Links** |
+| ---------------------- | --------------- | --------- |
+| **Movie Recommender System🎬** | 🤝 Use **collaborative filtering** to predict user preferences, assuming similar users will like similar movies, and leverage **Singular Value Decomposition** (SVD) from Numpy for precise matrix factorization and accurate recommendations📊 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][movie_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][movie_colab] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][movie_python] |
+| **🎥 Movie Recommendation with Genres** | 🔍 Creates movie embeddings using **Doc2Vec**, capturing genre and characteristic nuances, and leverages VectorDB for efficient storage and querying, enabling accurate genre classification and personalized movie recommendations through **similarity searches**🎥 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][genre_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][genre_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][genre_ghost] |
+| **🛍️ Product Recommender using Collaborative Filtering and LanceDB** | 📈 Using **Collaborative Filtering** and **LanceDB** to analyze your past purchases, recommends products based on user's past purchases. Demonstrated with the Instacart dataset in our example🛒 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][product_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][product_colab] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][product_python] |
+| **🔍 Arxiv Search with OpenCLIP and LanceDB** | 💡 Build a semantic search engine for **Arxiv papers** using **LanceDB**, and benchmarks its performance against traditional keyword-based search on **Nomic's Atlas**, to demonstrate the power of semantic search in finding relevant research papers📚 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][arxiv_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][arxiv_colab] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][arxiv_python] |
+| **Food Recommendation System🍴** | 🍔 Build a food recommendation system with **LanceDB**, featuring vector-based recommendations, full-text search, hybrid search, and reranking model integration for personalized and accurate food suggestions👌 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][food_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][food_colab] |
+
+[movie_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/movie-recommender
+[movie_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/movie-recommender/main.ipynb
+[movie_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/movie-recommender/main.py
+
+
+[genre_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/archived_examples/movie-recommendation-with-genres
+[genre_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/movie-recommendation-with-genres/movie_recommendation_with_doc2vec_and_lancedb.ipynb
+[genre_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/movie-recommendation-system-using-lancedb-and-doc2vec/
+
+[product_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/product-recommender
+[product_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/product-recommender/main.ipynb
+[product_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/product-recommender/main.py
+
+
+[arxiv_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/arxiv-recommender
+[arxiv_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/arxiv-recommender/main.ipynb
+[arxiv_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/arxiv-recommender/main.py
+ 
+
+[food_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/archived_examples/Food_recommendation
+[food_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/Food_recommendation/main.ipynb

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+**Vector Search: Efficient Retrieval 🔓👀**
+====================================================================
+
+Vector search with LanceDB, is a solution for  efficient and accurate similarity searches in large datasets 📊. 
+
+**Vector Search Capabilities in LanceDB🔝**
+
+LanceDB implements vector search algorithms for efficient document retrieval and analysis 📊. This enables fast and accurate discovery of relevant documents, leveraging dense vector representations 🤖. The platform supports scalable indexing and querying of high-dimensional vector spaces, facilitating precise document matching and retrieval 📈.
+
+| **Vector Search** | **Description** | **Links** |
+|:-----------------|:---------------|:---------|
+| **Inbuilt Hybrid Search 🔄** | Perform hybrid search in **LanceDB** by combining the results of semantic and full-text search via a reranking algorithm of your choice 📊 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][inbuilt_hybrid_search_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][inbuilt_hybrid_search_colab] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **Hybrid Search with BM25 and LanceDB 💡** | Use **Synergizes BM25's** keyword-focused precision (term frequency, document length normalization, bias-free retrieval) with **LanceDB's** semantic understanding (contextual analysis, query intent alignment) for nuanced search results in complex datasets 📈 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][BM25_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][BM25_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][BM25_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **NER-powered Semantic Search 🔎** | Extract and identify essential information from text with Named Entity Recognition **(NER)** methods: Dictionary-Based, Rule-Based, and Deep Learning-Based, to accurately extract and categorize entities, enabling precise semantic search results 🗂️ | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][NER_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][NER_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][NER_ghost]|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **Audio Similarity Search using Vector Embeddings 🎵** | Create vector **embeddings of audio files** to find similar audio content, enabling efficient audio similarity search and retrieval in **LanceDB's** vector store 📻 |[![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][audio_search_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][audio_search_colab] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][audio_search_python]|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **LanceDB Embeddings API: Multi-lingual Semantic Search 🌎** | Build a universal semantic search table with **LanceDB's Embeddings API**, supporting multiple languages (e.g., English, French) using **cohere's** multi-lingual model, for accurate cross-lingual search results 📄 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][mls_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][mls_colab] <br>[![Python](../../assets/python.svg)][mls_python] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **Facial Recognition: Face Embeddings 🤖** | Detect, crop, and embed faces using Facenet, then store and query face embeddings in **LanceDB** for efficient facial recognition and top-K matching results 👥 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][fr_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][fr_colab] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **Sentiment Analysis: Hotel Reviews 🏨** | Analyze customer sentiments towards the hotel industry using **BERT models**, storing sentiment labels, scores, and embeddings in **LanceDB**, enabling queries on customer opinions and potential areas for improvement 💬 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][sentiment_analysis_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][sentiment_analysis_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][sentiment_analysis_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **Vector Arithmetic with LanceDB ⚖️** | Perform **vector arithmetic** on embeddings, enabling complex relationships and nuances in data to be captured, and simplifying the process of retrieving semantically similar results 📊 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][arithmetic_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][arithmetic_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][arithmetic_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **Imagebind Demo 🖼️** | Explore the multi-modal capabilities of **Imagebind** through a Gradio app, use **LanceDB API** for seamless image search and retrieval experiences 📸 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][imagebind_github] <br> [![Open in Spaces](../../assets/open_hf_space.svg)][imagebind_huggingface] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **Search Engine using SAM & CLIP 🔍** | Build a search engine within an image using **SAM** and **CLIP** models, enabling object-level search and retrieval, with LanceDB indexing and search capabilities to find the closest match between image embeddings and user queries 📸 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][swi_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][swi_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][swi_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **Zero Shot Object Localization and Detection with CLIP 🔎** | Perform object detection on images using **OpenAI's CLIP**, enabling zero-shot localization and detection of objects, with capabilities to split images into patches, parse with CLIP, and plot bounding boxes 📊 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][zsod_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][zsod_colab] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **Accelerate Vector Search with OpenVINO 🚀** | Boost vector search applications using **OpenVINO**, achieving significant speedups with **CLIP** for text-to-image and image-to-image searching, through PyTorch model optimization, FP16 and INT8 format conversion, and quantization with **OpenVINO NNCF** 📈 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][openvino_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][openvino_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][openvino_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+| **Zero-Shot Image Classification with CLIP and LanceDB 📸** | Achieve zero-shot image classification using **CLIP** and **LanceDB**, enabling models to classify images without prior training on specific use cases, unlocking flexible and adaptable image classification capabilities 🔓 | [![Github](../../assets/github.svg)][zsic_github] <br>[![Open In Collab](../../assets/colab.svg)][zsic_colab] <br>[![Ghost](../../assets/ghost.svg)][zsic_ghost] |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
+
+
+
+
+[inbuilt_hybrid_search_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Inbuilt-Hybrid-Search
+[inbuilt_hybrid_search_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Inbuilt-Hybrid-Search/Inbuilt_Hybrid_Search_with_LanceDB.ipynb
+
+[BM25_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Hybrid_search_bm25_lancedb
+[BM25_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Hybrid_search_bm25_lancedb/main.ipynb
+[BM25_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/hybrid-search-combining-bm25-and-semantic-search-for-better-results-with-lan-1358038fe7e6
+
+[NER_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/NER-powered-Semantic-Search
+[NER_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/tutorials/NER-powered-Semantic-Search/NER_powered_Semantic_Search_with_LanceDB.ipynb
+[NER_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/ner-powered-semantic-search-using-lancedb-51051dc3e493
+
+[audio_search_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/archived_examples/audio_search
+[audio_search_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/audio_search/main.ipynb
+[audio_search_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/audio_search/main.py
+
+[mls_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/archived_examples/multi-lingual-wiki-qa
+[mls_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/multi-lingual-wiki-qa/main.ipynb
+[mls_python]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/multi-lingual-wiki-qa/main.py
+
+[fr_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/archived_examples/facial_recognition
+[fr_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/facial_recognition/main.ipynb
+
+[sentiment_analysis_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Sentiment-Analysis-Analyse-Hotel-Reviews
+[sentiment_analysis_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Sentiment-Analysis-Analyse-Hotel-Reviews/Sentiment_Analysis_using_LanceDB.ipynb
+[sentiment_analysis_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/sentiment-analysis-using-lancedb-2da3cb1e3fa6
+
+[arithmetic_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Vector-Arithmetic-with-LanceDB
+[arithmetic_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Vector-Arithmetic-with-LanceDB/main.ipynb
+[arithmetic_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/vector-arithmetic-with-lancedb-an-intro-to-vector-embeddings/
+
+[imagebind_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/imagebind_demo
+[imagebind_huggingface]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/raghavd99/imagebind2
+
+[swi_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/search-within-images-with-sam-and-clip
+[swi_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/search-within-images-with-sam-and-clip/main.ipynb
+[swi_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/search-within-an-image-331b54e4285e
+
+[zsod_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/zero-shot-object-detection-CLIP
+[zsod_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/zero-shot-object-detection-CLIP/zero_shot_object_detection_clip.ipynb
+
+[openvino_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Accelerate-Vector-Search-Applications-Using-OpenVINO
+[openvino_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/Accelerate-Vector-Search-Applications-Using-OpenVINO/clip_text_image_search.ipynb
+[openvino_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/accelerate-vector-search-applications-using-openvino-lancedb/
+
+[zsic_github]: https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/archived_examples/zero-shot-image-classification
+[zsic_colab]: https://colab.research.google.com/github/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/blob/main/examples/archived_examples/zero-shot-image-classification/main.ipynb
+[zsic_ghost]: https://blog.lancedb.com/zero-shot-image-classification-with-vector-search/
+
+
+
+
+

docs/src/examples/serverless_lancedb_with_s3_and_lambda.md

@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ s3://eto-public/datasets/sift/vec_data.lance
 Then, we can write a quick Python script to populate our LanceDB Table:
 
 ```python
-import pylance
+import lance
-sift_dataset = pylance.dataset("/path/to/local/vec_data.lance")
+sift_dataset = lance.dataset("/path/to/local/vec_data.lance")
 df = sift_dataset.to_table().to_pandas()
 
 import lancedb

docs/src/extra_js/reo.js

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+!function(){var e,t,n;e="9627b71b382d201",t=function(){Reo.init({clientID:"9627b71b382d201"})},(n=document.createElement("script")).src="https://static.reo.dev/"+e+"/reo.js",n.defer=!0,n.onload=t,document.head.appendChild(n)}();

docs/src/fts.md

@@ -1,173 +1,258 @@
-# Full-text search
+# Full-text search (Native FTS)
 
-LanceDB provides support for full-text search via [Tantivy](https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy) (currently Python only), allowing you to incorporate keyword-based search (based on BM25) in your retrieval solutions. Our goal is to push the FTS integration down to the Rust level in the future, so that it's available for Rust and JavaScript users as well.  Follow along at [this Github issue](https://github.com/lancedb/lance/issues/1195)
+LanceDB provides support for full-text search via Lance, allowing you to incorporate keyword-based search (based on BM25) in your retrieval solutions.
 
-
+!!! note
-## Installation
+    The Python SDK uses tantivy-based FTS by default, need to pass `use_tantivy=False` to use native FTS.
-
-To use full-text search, install the dependency [`tantivy-py`](https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy-py):
-
-```sh
-# Say you want to use tantivy==0.20.1
-pip install tantivy==0.20.1
-```
 
 ## Example
 
-Consider that we have a LanceDB table named `my_table`, whose string column `text` we want to index and query via keyword search.
+Consider that we have a LanceDB table named `my_table`, whose string column `text` we want to index and query via keyword search, the FTS index must be created before you can search via keywords.
+
+=== "Python"
+    === "Sync API"
 
         ```python
-import lancedb
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:import-lancedb"
-
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:import-lancedb-fts"
-uri = "data/sample-lancedb"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:basic_fts"
-db = lancedb.connect(uri)
-
-table = db.create_table(
-    "my_table",
-    data=[
-        {"vector": [3.1, 4.1], "text": "Frodo was a happy puppy"},
-        {"vector": [5.9, 26.5], "text": "There are several kittens playing"},
-    ],
-)
         ```
-
+    === "Async API"
-## Create FTS index on single column
-
-The FTS index must be created before you can search via keywords.
 
         ```python
-table.create_fts_index("text")
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:import-lancedb"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:import-lancedb-fts"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:basic_fts_async"
         ```
 
-To search an FTS index via keywords, LanceDB's `table.search` accepts a string as input:
+=== "TypeScript"
 
-```python
+    ```typescript
-table.search("puppy").limit(10).select(["text"]).to_list()
+    import * as lancedb from "@lancedb/lancedb";
+    const uri = "data/sample-lancedb"
+    const db = await lancedb.connect(uri);
+
+    const data = [
+    { vector: [3.1, 4.1], text: "Frodo was a happy puppy" },
+    { vector: [5.9, 26.5], text: "There are several kittens playing" },
+    ];
+    const tbl = await db.createTable("my_table", data, { mode: "overwrite" });
+    await tbl.createIndex("text", {
+        config: lancedb.Index.fts(),
+    });
+
+    await tbl
+        .search("puppy", "fts")
+        .select(["text"])
+        .limit(10)
+        .toArray();
     ```
 
-This returns the result as a list of dictionaries as follows.
+=== "Rust"
 
-```python
+    ```rust
-[{'text': 'Frodo was a happy puppy', 'score': 0.6931471824645996}]
+    let uri = "data/sample-lancedb";
+    let db = connect(uri).execute().await?;
+    let initial_data: Box<dyn RecordBatchReader + Send> = create_some_records()?;
+    let tbl = db
+        .create_table("my_table", initial_data)
+        .execute()
+        .await?;
+    tbl
+        .create_index(&["text"], Index::FTS(FtsIndexBuilder::default()))
+        .execute()
+        .await?;
+
+    tbl
+        .query()
+        .full_text_search(FullTextSearchQuery::new("puppy".to_owned()))
+        .select(lancedb::query::Select::Columns(vec!["text".to_owned()]))
+        .limit(10)
+        .execute()
+        .await?;
     ```
 
+It would search on all indexed columns by default, so it's useful when there are multiple indexed columns.
+
+Passing `fts_columns="text"` if you want to specify the columns to search.
+
 !!! note
     LanceDB automatically searches on the existing FTS index if the input to the search is of type `str`. If you provide a vector as input, LanceDB will search the ANN index instead.
 
 ## Tokenization
-By default the text is tokenized by splitting on punctuation and whitespaces and then removing tokens that are longer than 40 chars. For more language specific tokenization then provide the argument tokenizer_name with the 2 letter language code followed by "_stem". So for english it would be "en_stem".
+By default the text is tokenized by splitting on punctuation and whitespaces, and would filter out words that are with length greater than 40, and lowercase all words.
+
+Stemming is useful for improving search results by reducing words to their root form, e.g. "running" to "run". LanceDB supports stemming for multiple languages, you can specify the tokenizer name to enable stemming by the pattern `tokenizer_name="{language_code}_stem"`, e.g. `en_stem` for English.
+
+For example, to enable stemming for English:
+=== "Sync API"
 
     ```python
-table.create_fts_index("text", tokenizer_name="en_stem")
+    --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_config_stem"
     ```
-
+=== "Async API"
-The following [languages](https://docs.rs/tantivy/latest/tantivy/tokenizer/enum.Language.html) are currently supported.
-
-
-## Index multiple columns
-
-If you have multiple string columns to index, there's no need to combine them manually -- simply pass them all as a list to `create_fts_index`:
 
     ```python
-table.create_fts_index(["text1", "text2"])
+    --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_config_stem_async"
     ```
 
-Note that the search API call does not change - you can search over all indexed columns at once.
+the following [languages](https://docs.rs/tantivy/latest/tantivy/tokenizer/enum.Language.html) are currently supported.
+
+The tokenizer is customizable, you can specify how the tokenizer splits the text, and how it filters out words, etc.
+
+For example, for language with accents, you can specify the tokenizer to use `ascii_folding` to remove accents, e.g. 'é' to 'e':
+=== "Sync API"
+
+    ```python
+    --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_config_folding"
+    ```
+=== "Async API"
+
+    ```python
+    --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_config_folding_async"
+    ```
 
 ## Filtering
 
-Currently the LanceDB full text search feature supports *post-filtering*, meaning filters are
+LanceDB full text search supports to filter the search results by a condition, both pre-filtering and post-filtering are supported.
-applied on top of the full text search results. This can be invoked via the familiar
+
-`where` syntax:
+This can be invoked via the familiar `where` syntax.
+ 
+With pre-filtering:
+=== "Python"
+
+    === "Sync API"
 
         ```python
-table.search("puppy").limit(10).where("meta='foo'").to_list()
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_prefiltering"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_prefiltering_async"
         ```
 
-## Sorting
+=== "TypeScript"
 
-You can pre-sort the documents by specifying `ordering_field_names` when
+    ```typescript
-creating the full-text search index. Once pre-sorted, you can then specify
+    await tbl
-`ordering_field_name` while searching to return results sorted by the given
+    .search("puppy")
-field. For example, 
+    .select(["id", "doc"])
-
+    .limit(10)
-```
+    .where("meta='foo'")
-table.create_fts_index(["text_field"], ordering_field_names=["sort_by_field"])
+    .prefilter(true)
-
+    .toArray();
-(table.search("terms", ordering_field_name="sort_by_field")
- .limit(20)
- .to_list())
     ```
 
-!!! note
+=== "Rust"
-    If you wish to specify an ordering field at query time, you must also
-    have specified it during indexing time. Otherwise at query time, an
-    error will be raised that looks like `ValueError: The field does not exist: xxx`
 
-!!! note
+    ```rust
-    The fields to sort on must be of typed unsigned integer, or else you will see 
+    table
-    an error during indexing that looks like 
+        .query()
-    `TypeError: argument 'value': 'float' object cannot be interpreted as an integer`.
+        .full_text_search(FullTextSearchQuery::new("puppy".to_owned()))
+        .select(lancedb::query::Select::Columns(vec!["doc".to_owned()]))
+        .limit(10)
+        .only_if("meta='foo'")
+        .execute()
+        .await?;
+    ```
 
-!!! note
+With post-filtering:
-    You can specify multiple fields for ordering at indexing time.
+=== "Python"
-    But at query time only one ordering field is supported.
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_postfiltering"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_postfiltering_async"
+        ```
+
+=== "TypeScript"
+
+    ```typescript
+    await tbl
+    .search("apple")
+    .select(["id", "doc"])
+    .limit(10)
+    .where("meta='foo'")
+    .prefilter(false)
+    .toArray();
+    ```
+
+=== "Rust"
+
+    ```rust
+    table
+        .query()
+        .full_text_search(FullTextSearchQuery::new(words[0].to_owned()))
+        .select(lancedb::query::Select::Columns(vec!["doc".to_owned()]))
+        .postfilter()
+        .limit(10)
+        .only_if("meta='foo'")
+        .execute()
+        .await?;
+    ```
 
 ## Phrase queries vs. terms queries
 
+!!! warning "Warn"
+    Lance-based FTS doesn't support queries using boolean operators `OR`, `AND`.
+
 For full-text search you can specify either a **phrase** query like `"the old man and the sea"`,
-or a **terms** search query like `"(Old AND Man) AND Sea"`. For more details on the terms
+or a **terms** search query like `old man sea`. For more details on the terms
 query syntax, see Tantivy's [query parser rules](https://docs.rs/tantivy/latest/tantivy/query/struct.QueryParser.html).
 
-!!! tip "Note"
+To search for a phrase, the index must be created with `with_position=True`:
-    The query parser will raise an exception on queries that are ambiguous. For example, in the query `they could have been dogs OR cats`, `OR` is capitalized so it's considered a keyword query operator. But it's ambiguous how the left part should be treated. So if you submit this search query as is, you'll get `Syntax Error: they could have been dogs OR cats`.
+=== "Sync API"
-
-    ```py
-    # This raises a syntax error
-    table.search("they could have been dogs OR cats")
-    ```
-
-    On the other hand, lowercasing `OR` to `or` will work, because there are no capitalized logical operators and
-    the query is treated as a phrase query.
-
-    ```py
-    # This works!
-    table.search("they could have been dogs or cats")
-    ```
-
-It can be cumbersome to have to remember what will cause a syntax error depending on the type of
-query you want to perform. To make this simpler, when you want to perform a phrase query, you can
-enforce it in one of two ways:
-
-1. Place the double-quoted query inside single quotes. For example, `table.search('"they could have been dogs OR cats"')` is treated as
-a phrase query.
-2. Explicitly declare the `phrase_query()` method. This is useful when you have a phrase query that
-itself contains double quotes. For example, `table.search('the cats OR dogs were not really "pets" at all').phrase_query()`
-is treated as a phrase query.
-
-In general, a query that's declared as a phrase query will be wrapped in double quotes during parsing, with nested
-double quotes replaced by single quotes.
-
-
-## Configurations
-
-By default, LanceDB configures a 1GB heap size limit for creating the index. You can
-reduce this if running on a smaller node, or increase this for faster performance while
-indexing a larger corpus.
 
     ```python
-# configure a 512MB heap size
+    --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_with_position"
-heap = 1024 * 1024 * 512
+    ```
-table.create_fts_index(["text1", "text2"], writer_heap_size=heap, replace=True)
+=== "Async API"
+
+    ```python
+    --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_with_position_async"
+    ```
+This will allow you to search for phrases, but it will also significantly increase the index size and indexing time.
+
+
+## Incremental indexing
+
+LanceDB supports incremental indexing, which means you can add new records to the table without reindexing the entire table.
+
+This can make the query more efficient, especially when the table is large and the new records are relatively small.
+
+=== "Python"
+
+    === "Sync API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_incremental_index"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_search.py:fts_incremental_index_async"
         ```
 
-## Current limitations
+=== "TypeScript"
 
-1. Currently we do not yet support incremental writes.
+    ```typescript
-   If you add data after FTS index creation, it won't be reflected
+    await tbl.add([{ vector: [3.1, 4.1], text: "Frodo was a happy puppy" }]);
-   in search results until you do a full reindex.
+    await tbl.optimize();
+    ```
 
-2. We currently only support local filesystem paths for the FTS index.
+=== "Rust"
-   This is a tantivy limitation. We've implemented an object store plugin
+
-   but there's no way in tantivy-py to specify to use it.
+    ```rust
+    let more_data: Box<dyn RecordBatchReader + Send> = create_some_records()?;
+    tbl.add(more_data).execute().await?;
+    tbl.optimize(OptimizeAction::All).execute().await?;
+    ```
+!!! note
+
+    New data added after creating the FTS index will appear in search results while incremental index is still progress, but with increased latency due to a flat search on the unindexed portion. LanceDB Cloud automates this merging process, minimizing the impact on search speed. 

docs/src/fts_tantivy.md

@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+# Full-text search (Tantivy-based FTS)
+
+LanceDB also provides support for full-text search via [Tantivy](https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy), allowing you to incorporate keyword-based search (based on BM25) in your retrieval solutions.
+
+The tantivy-based FTS is only available in Python synchronous APIs and does not support building indexes on object storage or incremental indexing. If you need these features, try native FTS [native FTS](fts.md).
+
+## Installation
+
+To use full-text search, install the dependency [`tantivy-py`](https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy-py):
+
+```sh
+# Say you want to use tantivy==0.20.1
+pip install tantivy==0.20.1
+```
+
+## Example
+
+Consider that we have a LanceDB table named `my_table`, whose string column `content` we want to index and query via keyword search, the FTS index must be created before you can search via keywords.
+
+```python
+import lancedb
+
+uri = "data/sample-lancedb"
+db = lancedb.connect(uri)
+
+table = db.create_table(
+    "my_table",
+    data=[
+        {"id": 1, "vector": [3.1, 4.1], "title": "happy puppy", "content": "Frodo was a happy puppy", "meta": "foo"},
+        {"id": 2, "vector": [5.9, 26.5], "title": "playing kittens", "content": "There are several kittens playing around the puppy", "meta": "bar"},
+    ],
+)
+
+# passing `use_tantivy=False` to use lance FTS index
+# `use_tantivy=True` by default
+table.create_fts_index("content", use_tantivy=True)
+table.search("puppy").limit(10).select(["content"]).to_list()
+# [{'text': 'Frodo was a happy puppy', '_score': 0.6931471824645996}]
+# ...
+```
+
+It would search on all indexed columns by default, so it's useful when there are multiple indexed columns.
+
+!!! note
+    LanceDB automatically searches on the existing FTS index if the input to the search is of type `str`. If you provide a vector as input, LanceDB will search the ANN index instead.
+
+## Tokenization
+By default the text is tokenized by splitting on punctuation and whitespaces and then removing tokens that are longer than 40 chars. For more language specific tokenization then provide the argument tokenizer_name with the 2 letter language code followed by "_stem". So for english it would be "en_stem".
+
+```python
+table.create_fts_index("content", use_tantivy=True, tokenizer_name="en_stem", replace=True)
+```
+
+the following [languages](https://docs.rs/tantivy/latest/tantivy/tokenizer/enum.Language.html) are currently supported.
+
+## Index multiple columns
+
+If you have multiple string columns to index, there's no need to combine them manually -- simply pass them all as a list to `create_fts_index`:
+
+```python
+table.create_fts_index(["title", "content"], use_tantivy=True, replace=True)
+```
+
+Note that the search API call does not change - you can search over all indexed columns at once.
+
+## Filtering
+
+Currently the LanceDB full text search feature supports *post-filtering*, meaning filters are
+applied on top of the full text search results (see [native FTS](fts.md) if you need pre-filtering). This can be invoked via the familiar
+`where` syntax:
+
+```python
+table.search("puppy").limit(10).where("meta='foo'").to_list()
+```
+
+## Sorting
+
+You can pre-sort the documents by specifying `ordering_field_names` when
+creating the full-text search index. Once pre-sorted, you can then specify
+`ordering_field_name` while searching to return results sorted by the given
+field. For example,
+
+```python
+table.create_fts_index(["content"], use_tantivy=True, ordering_field_names=["id"], replace=True)
+
+(table.search("puppy", ordering_field_name="id")
+ .limit(20)
+ .to_list())
+```
+
+!!! note
+    If you wish to specify an ordering field at query time, you must also
+    have specified it during indexing time. Otherwise at query time, an
+    error will be raised that looks like `ValueError: The field does not exist: xxx`
+
+!!! note
+    The fields to sort on must be of typed unsigned integer, or else you will see
+    an error during indexing that looks like
+    `TypeError: argument 'value': 'float' object cannot be interpreted as an integer`.
+
+!!! note
+    You can specify multiple fields for ordering at indexing time.
+    But at query time only one ordering field is supported.
+
+
+## Phrase queries vs. terms queries
+
+For full-text search you can specify either a **phrase** query like `"the old man and the sea"`,
+or a **terms** search query like `"(Old AND Man) AND Sea"`. For more details on the terms
+query syntax, see Tantivy's [query parser rules](https://docs.rs/tantivy/latest/tantivy/query/struct.QueryParser.html).
+
+!!! tip "Note"
+    The query parser will raise an exception on queries that are ambiguous. For example, in the query `they could have been dogs OR cats`, `OR` is capitalized so it's considered a keyword query operator. But it's ambiguous how the left part should be treated. So if you submit this search query as is, you'll get `Syntax Error: they could have been dogs OR cats`.
+
+    ```py
+    # This raises a syntax error
+    table.search("they could have been dogs OR cats")
+    ```
+
+    On the other hand, lowercasing `OR` to `or` will work, because there are no capitalized logical operators and
+    the query is treated as a phrase query.
+
+    ```py
+    # This works!
+    table.search("they could have been dogs or cats")
+    ```
+
+It can be cumbersome to have to remember what will cause a syntax error depending on the type of
+query you want to perform. To make this simpler, when you want to perform a phrase query, you can
+enforce it in one of two ways:
+
+1. Place the double-quoted query inside single quotes. For example, `table.search('"they could have been dogs OR cats"')` is treated as
+a phrase query.
+1. Explicitly declare the `phrase_query()` method. This is useful when you have a phrase query that
+itself contains double quotes. For example, `table.search('the cats OR dogs were not really "pets" at all').phrase_query()`
+is treated as a phrase query.
+
+In general, a query that's declared as a phrase query will be wrapped in double quotes during parsing, with nested
+double quotes replaced by single quotes.
+
+
+## Configurations
+
+By default, LanceDB configures a 1GB heap size limit for creating the index. You can
+reduce this if running on a smaller node, or increase this for faster performance while
+indexing a larger corpus.
+
+```python
+# configure a 512MB heap size
+heap = 1024 * 1024 * 512
+table.create_fts_index(["title", "content"], use_tantivy=True, writer_heap_size=heap, replace=True)
+```
+
+## Current limitations
+
+1. New data added after creating the FTS index will appear in search results, but with increased latency due to a flat search on the unindexed portion. Re-indexing with `create_fts_index` will reduce latency. LanceDB Cloud automates this merging process, minimizing the impact on search speed. 
+
+2. We currently only support local filesystem paths for the FTS index.
+   This is a tantivy limitation. We've implemented an object store plugin
+   but there's no way in tantivy-py to specify to use it.

docs/src/guides/multi-vector.md

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+# Late interaction & MultiVector embedding type
+Late interaction is a technique used in retrieval that calculates the relevance of a query to a document by comparing their multi-vector representations. The key difference between late interaction and other popular methods:
+
+![late interaction vs other methods](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancedb/assets/b035a0ceb2c237734e0d393054c146d289792339/docs/assets/integration/colbert-blog-interaction.svg)
+
+
+[ Illustration from https://jina.ai/news/what-is-colbert-and-late-interaction-and-why-they-matter-in-search/]
+
+<b>No interaction:</b> Refers to independently embedding the query and document, that are compared to calcualte similarity without any interaction between them. This is typically used in vector search operations.
+
+<b>Partial interaction</b> Refers to a specific approach where the similarity computation happens primarily between query vectors and document vectors, without extensive interaction between individual components of each. An example of this is dual-encoder models like BERT.
+
+<b>Early full interaction</b> Refers to techniques like cross-encoders that process query and docs in pairs with full interaction across various stages of encoding. This is a powerful, but relatively slower technique. Because it requires processing query and docs in pairs, doc embeddings can't be pre-computed for fast retrieval. This is why cross encoders are typically used as reranking models combined with vector search. Learn more about [LanceDB Reranking support](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/reranking/).
+
+<b>Late interaction</b> Late interaction is a technique that calculates the doc and query similarity independently and then the interaction or evaluation happens during the retrieval process. This is typically used in retrieval models like ColBERT. Unlike early interaction, It allows speeding up the retrieval process without compromising the depth of semantic analysis.
+
+## Internals of ColBERT 
+Let's take a look at the steps involved in performing late interaction based retrieval using ColBERT:
+
+• ColBERT employs BERT-based encoders for both queries `(fQ)` and documents `(fD)`
+• A single BERT model is shared between query and document encoders and special tokens distinguish input types: `[Q]` for queries and `[D]` for documents
+
+**Query Encoder (fQ):**
+• Query q is tokenized into WordPiece tokens: `q1, q2, ..., ql`. `[Q]` token is prepended right after BERT's `[CLS]` token
+• If query length < Nq, it's padded with [MASK] tokens up to Nq.
+• The padded sequence goes through BERT's transformer architecture
+• Final embeddings are L2-normalized.
+
+**Document Encoder (fD):**
+• Document d is tokenized into tokens `d1, d2, ..., dm`. `[D]` token is prepended after `[CLS]` token
+• Unlike queries, documents are NOT padded with `[MASK]` tokens
+• Document tokens are processed through BERT and the same linear layer
+
+**Late Interaction:**
+• Late interaction estimates relevance score `S(q,d)` using embedding `Eq` and `Ed`. Late interaction happens after independent encoding
+• For each query embedding, maximum similarity is computed against all document embeddings
+• The similarity measure can be cosine similarity or squared L2 distance
+
+**MaxSim Calculation:**
+```
+S(q,d) := Σ max(Eqi⋅EdjT)
+          i∈|Eq| j∈|Ed|
+```
+• This finds the best matching document embedding for each query embedding
+• Captures relevance based on strongest local matches between contextual embeddings
+
+## LanceDB MultiVector type
+LanceDB supports multivector type, this is useful when you have multiple vectors for a single item (e.g. with ColBert and ColPali).
+
+You can index on a column with multivector type and search on it, the query can be single vector or multiple vectors. For now, only cosine metric is supported for multivector search. The vector value type can be float16, float32 or float64. LanceDB integrateds [ConteXtualized Token Retriever(XTR)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01982), which introduces a simple, yet novel, objective function that encourages the model to retrieve the most important document tokens first. 
+
+```python
+import lancedb
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow as pa
+
+db = lancedb.connect("data/multivector_demo")
+schema = pa.schema(
+    [
+        pa.field("id", pa.int64()),
+        # float16, float32, and float64 are supported
+        pa.field("vector", pa.list_(pa.list_(pa.float32(), 256))),
+    ]
+)
+data = [
+    {
+        "id": i,
+        "vector": np.random.random(size=(2, 256)).tolist(),
+    }
+    for i in range(1024)
+]
+tbl = db.create_table("my_table", data=data, schema=schema)
+
+# only cosine similarity is supported for multi-vectors
+tbl.create_index(metric="cosine")
+
+# query with single vector
+query = np.random.random(256).astype(np.float16)
+tbl.search(query).to_arrow()
+
+# query with multiple vectors
+query = np.random.random(size=(2, 256))
+tbl.search(query).to_arrow()
+```
+Find more about vector search in LanceDB [here](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/search/#multivector-type).

docs/src/guides/scalar_index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+# Building a Scalar Index
+
+Scalar indices organize data by scalar attributes (e.g. numbers, categorical values), enabling fast filtering of vector data. In vector databases, scalar indices accelerate the retrieval of scalar data associated with vectors, thus enhancing the query performance when searching for vectors that meet certain scalar criteria. 
+
+Similar to many SQL databases, LanceDB supports several types of scalar indices to accelerate search
+over scalar columns.
+
+- `BTREE`: The most common type is BTREE. The index stores a copy of the
+  column in sorted order. This sorted copy allows a binary search to be used to
+  satisfy queries.
+- `BITMAP`: this index stores a bitmap for each unique value in the column. It 
+  uses a series of bits to indicate whether a value is present in a row of a table
+- `LABEL_LIST`: a special index that can be used on `List<T>` columns to
+  support queries with `array_contains_all` and `array_contains_any`
+  using an underlying bitmap index.
+  For example, a column that contains lists of tags (e.g. `["tag1", "tag2", "tag3"]`) can be indexed with a `LABEL_LIST` index.
+
+!!! tips "How to choose the right scalar index type"
+
+    `BTREE`: This index is good for scalar columns with mostly distinct values and does best when the query is highly selective.
+    
+    `BITMAP`: This index works best for low-cardinality numeric or string columns, where the number of unique values is small (i.e., less than a few thousands).
+    
+    `LABEL_LIST`: This index should be used for columns containing list-type data.
+
+| Data Type                                                       | Filter                                    | Index Type   |
+| --------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------------ |
+| Numeric, String, Temporal                                       | `<`, `=`, `>`, `in`, `between`, `is null` | `BTREE`      |
+| Boolean, numbers or strings with fewer than 1,000 unique values | `<`, `=`, `>`, `in`, `between`, `is null` | `BITMAP`     |
+| List of low cardinality of numbers or strings                   | `array_has_any`, `array_has_all`          | `LABEL_LIST` |
+
+### Create a scalar index
+=== "Python"
+
+    === "Sync API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb-btree-bitmap"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:basic_scalar_index"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb-btree-bitmap"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:basic_scalar_index_async"
+        ```
+
+=== "Typescript"
+
+    === "@lancedb/lancedb"
+
+        ```js
+        const db = await lancedb.connect("data");
+        const tbl = await db.openTable("my_vectors");
+
+        await tbl.create_index("book_id");
+        await tlb.create_index("publisher", { config: lancedb.Index.bitmap() })
+        ```
+
+The following scan will be faster if the column `book_id` has a scalar index:
+
+=== "Python"
+
+    === "Sync API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:search_with_scalar_index"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:search_with_scalar_index_async"
+        ```
+
+=== "Typescript"
+
+    === "@lancedb/lancedb"
+
+        ```js
+        const db = await lancedb.connect("data");
+        const tbl = await db.openTable("books");
+
+        await tbl
+          .query()
+          .where("book_id = 2")
+          .limit(10)
+          .toArray();
+        ```
+
+Scalar indices can also speed up scans containing a vector search or full text search, and a prefilter:
+
+=== "Python"
+
+    === "Sync API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:vector_search_with_scalar_index"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:import-lancedb"
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:vector_search_with_scalar_index_async"
+        ```
+
+=== "Typescript"
+
+    === "@lancedb/lancedb"
+
+        ```js
+        const db = await lancedb.connect("data/lance");
+        const tbl = await db.openTable("book_with_embeddings");
+
+        await tbl.search(Array(1536).fill(1.2))
+          .where("book_id != 3")  // prefilter is default behavior.
+          .limit(10)
+          .toArray();
+        ```
+### Update a scalar index
+Updating the table data (adding, deleting, or modifying records) requires that you also update the scalar index. This can be done by calling `optimize`, which will trigger an update to the existing scalar index.
+=== "Python"
+
+    === "Sync API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:update_scalar_index"
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        --8<-- "python/python/tests/docs/test_guide_index.py:update_scalar_index_async"
+        ```
+
+=== "TypeScript"
+
+    ```typescript
+    await tbl.add([{ vector: [7, 8], book_id: 4 }]);
+    await tbl.optimize();
+    ```
+
+=== "Rust"
+
+    ```rust
+    let more_data: Box<dyn RecordBatchReader + Send> = create_some_records()?;
+    tbl.add(more_data).execute().await?;
+    tbl.optimize(OptimizeAction::All).execute().await?;
+    ```
+
+!!! note
+
+    New data added after creating the scalar index will still appear in search results if optimize is not used, but with increased latency due to a flat search on the unindexed portion. LanceDB Cloud automates the optimize process, minimizing the impact on search speed.

docs/src/guides/storage.md

@@ -12,25 +12,52 @@ LanceDB OSS supports object stores such as AWS S3 (and compatible stores), Azure
 === "Python"
 
     AWS S3:
+    === "Sync API"
 
         ```python
         import lancedb
         db = lancedb.connect("s3://bucket/path")
         ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async("s3://bucket/path")
+        ```
 
     Google Cloud Storage:
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         import lancedb
         db = lancedb.connect("gs://bucket/path")
         ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async("gs://bucket/path")
+        ```
 
     Azure Blob Storage:
 
+    <!-- skip-test -->
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         import lancedb
         db = lancedb.connect("az://bucket/path")
         ```
+    <!-- skip-test -->
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async("az://bucket/path")
+        ```
+    Note that for Azure, storage credentials must be configured. See [below](#azure-blob-storage) for more details.
+
 
 === "TypeScript"
 
@@ -87,18 +114,24 @@ In most cases, when running in the respective cloud and permissions are set up c
 export TIMEOUT=60s
 ```
 
-!!! note "`storage_options` availability"
-
-    The `storage_options` parameter is only available in Python *async* API and JavaScript API.
-    It is not yet supported in the Python synchronous API.
-
 If you only want this to apply to one particular connection, you can pass the `storage_options` argument when opening the connection:
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         import lancedb
-    db = await lancedb.connect_async(
+        db = lancedb.connect(
+            "s3://bucket/path",
+            storage_options={"timeout": "60s"}
+        )
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async(
             "s3://bucket/path",
             storage_options={"timeout": "60s"}
         )
@@ -130,10 +163,24 @@ Getting even more specific, you can set the `timeout` for only a particular tabl
 === "Python"
 
     <!-- skip-test -->
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         import lancedb
-    db = await lancedb.connect_async("s3://bucket/path")
+        db = lancedb.connect("s3://bucket/path")
-    table = await db.create_table(
+        table = db.create_table(
+            "table",
+            [{"a": 1, "b": 2}],
+            storage_options={"timeout": "60s"}
+        )
+        ```
+    <!-- skip-test -->
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async("s3://bucket/path")
+        async_table = await async_db.create_table(
             "table",
             [{"a": 1, "b": 2}],
             storage_options={"timeout": "60s"}
@@ -196,9 +243,24 @@ These can be set as environment variables or passed in the `storage_options` par
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         import lancedb
-    db = await lancedb.connect_async(
+        db = lancedb.connect(
+            "s3://bucket/path",
+            storage_options={
+                "aws_access_key_id": "my-access-key",
+                "aws_secret_access_key": "my-secret-key",
+                "aws_session_token": "my-session-token",
+            }
+        )
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async(
             "s3://bucket/path",
             storage_options={
                 "aws_access_key_id": "my-access-key",
@@ -280,7 +342,7 @@ For **read and write access**, LanceDB will need a policy such as:
             "Action": [
               "s3:PutObject",
               "s3:GetObject",
-              "s3:DeleteObject",
+              "s3:DeleteObject"
             ],
             "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::<bucket>/<prefix>/*"
         },
@@ -312,7 +374,7 @@ For **read-only access**, LanceDB will need a policy such as:
         {
             "Effect": "Allow",
             "Action": [
-              "s3:GetObject",
+              "s3:GetObject"
             ],
             "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::<bucket>/<prefix>/*"
         },
@@ -350,9 +412,19 @@ name of the table to use.
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         import lancedb
-    db = await lancedb.connect_async(
+        db = lancedb.connect(
+            "s3+ddb://bucket/path?ddbTableName=my-dynamodb-table",
+        )
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async(
             "s3+ddb://bucket/path?ddbTableName=my-dynamodb-table",
         )    
         ```
@@ -443,9 +515,23 @@ LanceDB can also connect to S3-compatible stores, such as MinIO. To do so, you m
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         import lancedb
-    db = await lancedb.connect_async(
+        db = lancedb.connect(
+            "s3://bucket/path",
+            storage_options={
+                "region": "us-east-1",
+                "endpoint": "http://minio:9000",
+            }
+        )
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async(
             "s3://bucket/path",
             storage_options={
                 "region": "us-east-1",
@@ -498,15 +584,29 @@ This can also be done with the ``AWS_ENDPOINT`` and ``AWS_DEFAULT_REGION`` envir
 
 #### S3 Express
 
-LanceDB supports [S3 Express One Zone](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/express-one-zone/) endpoints, but requires additional configuration. Also, S3 Express endpoints only support connecting from an EC2 instance within the same region.
+LanceDB supports [S3 Express One Zone](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/express-one-zone/) endpoints, but requires additional infrastructure configuration for the compute service, such as EC2 or Lambda. Please refer to [Networking requirements for S3 Express One Zone](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/s3-express-networking.html).
 
 To configure LanceDB to use an S3 Express endpoint, you must set the storage option `s3_express`. The bucket name in your table URI should **include the suffix**.
 
 === "Python"
 
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         import lancedb
-    db = await lancedb.connect_async(
+        db = lancedb.connect(
+            "s3://my-bucket--use1-az4--x-s3/path",
+            storage_options={
+                "region": "us-east-1",
+                "s3_express": "true",
+            }
+        )
+        ```
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async(
             "s3://my-bucket--use1-az4--x-s3/path",
             storage_options={
                 "region": "us-east-1",
@@ -554,9 +654,23 @@ GCS credentials are configured by setting the `GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT` environme
 === "Python"
 
     <!-- skip-test -->
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         import lancedb
-    db = await lancedb.connect_async(
+        db = lancedb.connect(
+            "gs://my-bucket/my-database",
+            storage_options={
+                "service_account": "path/to/service-account.json",
+            }
+        )
+        ```
+    <!-- skip-test -->
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async(
             "gs://my-bucket/my-database",
             storage_options={
                 "service_account": "path/to/service-account.json",
@@ -614,9 +728,24 @@ Azure Blob Storage credentials can be configured by setting the `AZURE_STORAGE_A
 === "Python"
 
     <!-- skip-test -->
+    === "Sync API"
+
         ```python
         import lancedb
-    db = await lancedb.connect_async(
+        db = lancedb.connect(
+            "az://my-container/my-database",
+            storage_options={
+                account_name: "some-account",
+                account_key: "some-key",
+            }
+        )
+        ```
+    <!-- skip-test -->
+    === "Async API"
+
+        ```python
+        import lancedb
+        async_db = await lancedb.connect_async(
             "az://my-container/my-database",
             storage_options={
                 account_name: "some-account",