[python] Bump version: 0.3.5 → 0.3.6

pass vector column name to remote as well.

`vector_column` is already part of `Query` just declearing it as part to
`remote.VectorQuery` as well

.bumpversion.cfg

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.3.0
+current_version = 0.3.11
 commit = True
 message = Bump version: {current_version} → {new_version}
 tag = True

.github/workflows/node.yml

@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ on:
       - .github/workflows/node.yml
       - docker-compose.yml
 
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 env:
   # 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.

.github/workflows/npm-publish.yml

@@ -38,13 +38,17 @@ jobs:
             node/vectordb-*.tgz
 
   node-macos:
-    runs-on: macos-12
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        config:
+          - arch: x86_64-apple-darwin
+            runner: macos-13
+          - arch: aarch64-apple-darwin
+            # xlarge is implicitly arm64.
+            runner: macos-13-xlarge
+    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:
-        target: [x86_64-apple-darwin, aarch64-apple-darwin]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
@@ -54,11 +58,8 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           cd node
           npm ci
-      - name: Install rustup target
-        if: ${{ matrix.target == 'aarch64-apple-darwin' }}
-        run: rustup target add aarch64-apple-darwin
       - name: Build MacOS native node modules
-        run: bash ci/build_macos_artifacts.sh ${{ matrix.target }}
+        run: bash ci/build_macos_artifacts.sh ${{ matrix.config.arch }}
       - name: Upload Darwin Artifacts
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         with:
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ jobs:
           path: |
             node/dist/lancedb-vectordb-darwin*.tgz
          
+
   node-linux:
     name: node-linux (${{ matrix.config.arch}}-unknown-linux-gnu
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.runner }}

.github/workflows/python.yml

@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ on:
     paths:
       - python/**
       - .github/workflows/python.yml
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   linux:
     timeout-minutes: 30
@@ -32,18 +37,19 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         pip install -e .[tests]
         pip install tantivy@git+https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy-py#164adc87e1a033117001cf70e38c82a53014d985
-        pip install pytest pytest-mock black isort
-    - name: Black
-      run: black --check --diff --no-color --quiet .
-    - name: isort
-      run: isort --check --diff --quiet .
+        pip install pytest pytest-mock ruff
+    - name: Lint
+      run: ruff format --check .
     - name: Run tests
       run: pytest -m "not slow" -x -v --durations=30 tests
     - name: doctest
       run: pytest --doctest-modules lancedb
   mac:
     timeout-minutes: 30
-    runs-on: "macos-12"
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        mac-runner: [ "macos-13", "macos-13-xlarge" ]
+    runs-on: "${{ matrix.mac-runner }}"
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash
@@ -62,8 +68,6 @@ jobs:
         pip install -e .[tests]
         pip install tantivy@git+https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy-py#164adc87e1a033117001cf70e38c82a53014d985
         pip install pytest pytest-mock black
-    - name: Black
-      run: black --check --diff --no-color --quiet .
     - name: Run tests
       run: pytest -m "not slow" -x -v --durations=30 tests
   pydantic1x:
@@ -87,11 +91,7 @@ jobs:
         pip install "pydantic<2"
         pip install -e .[tests]
         pip install tantivy@git+https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy-py#164adc87e1a033117001cf70e38c82a53014d985
-        pip install pytest pytest-mock black isort
-    - name: Black
-      run: black --check --diff --no-color --quiet .
-    - name: isort
-      run: isort --check --diff --quiet .
+        pip install pytest pytest-mock
     - name: Run tests
       run: pytest -m "not slow" -x -v --durations=30 tests
     - name: doctest

.github/workflows/rust.yml

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ on:
       - rust/**
       - .github/workflows/rust.yml
 
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 env:
   # This env var is used by Swatinem/rust-cache@v2 for the cache
   # key, so we set it to make sure it is always consistent.
@@ -44,8 +48,11 @@ jobs:
     - name: Run tests
       run: cargo test --all-features
   macos:
-    runs-on: macos-12
     timeout-minutes: 30
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        mac-runner: [ "macos-13", "macos-13-xlarge" ]
+    runs-on: "${{ matrix.mac-runner }}"
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash

Cargo.toml

@@ -5,22 +5,24 @@ exclude = ["python"]
 resolver = "2"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
-lance = { "version" = "=0.8.3", "features" = ["dynamodb"] }
-lance-linalg = { "version" = "=0.8.3" }
-lance-testing = { "version" = "=0.8.3" }
+lance = { "version" = "=0.8.20", "features" = ["dynamodb"] }
+lance-index = { "version" = "=0.8.20" }
+lance-linalg = { "version" = "=0.8.20" }
+lance-testing = { "version" = "=0.8.20" }
 # Note that this one does not include pyarrow
-arrow = { version = "43.0.0", optional = false }
-arrow-array = "43.0"
-arrow-data = "43.0"
-arrow-ipc = "43.0"
-arrow-ord = "43.0"
-arrow-schema = "43.0"
-arrow-arith = "43.0"
-arrow-cast = "43.0"
-half = { "version" = "=2.2.1", default-features = false, features = [
-    "num-traits"
+arrow = { version = "47.0.0", optional = false }
+arrow-array = "47.0"
+arrow-data = "47.0"
+arrow-ipc = "47.0"
+arrow-ord = "47.0"
+arrow-schema = "47.0"
+arrow-arith = "47.0"
+arrow-cast = "47.0"
+chrono = "0.4.23"
+half = { "version" = "=2.3.1", default-features = false, features = [
+    "num-traits",
 ] }
 log = "0.4"
-object_store = "0.6.1"
+object_store = "0.7.1"
 snafu = "0.7.4"
 url = "2"

README.md

@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@
 
 **Developer-friendly, serverless vector database for AI applications**
 
-<a href="https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/">Documentation</a> •
-<a href="https://blog.lancedb.com/">Blog</a> •
-<a href="https://discord.gg/zMM32dvNtd">Discord</a> •
-<a href="https://twitter.com/lancedb">Twitter</a>
+<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>
+[![Medium](https://img.shields.io/badge/Medium-12100E?style=for-the-badge&logo=medium&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)
 
 </p>
 
@@ -54,8 +55,7 @@ const table = await db.createTable('vectors',
       [{ id: 1, vector: [0.1, 0.2], item: "foo", price: 10 },
        { id: 2, vector: [1.1, 1.2], item: "bar", price: 50 }])
 
-const query = table.search([0.1, 0.3]);
-query.limit = 20;
+const query = table.search([0.1, 0.3]).limit(2);
 const results = await query.execute();
 ```
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ db = lancedb.connect(uri)
 table = db.create_table("my_table",
                          data=[{"vector": [3.1, 4.1], "item": "foo", "price": 10.0},
                                {"vector": [5.9, 26.5], "item": "bar", "price": 20.0}])
-result = table.search([100, 100]).limit(2).to_df()
+result = table.search([100, 100]).limit(2).to_pandas()
 ```
 
 ## Blogs, Tutorials & Videos

ci/build_macos_artifacts.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Builds the macOS artifacts (node binaries).
 # Usage: ./ci/build_macos_artifacts.sh [target]
 # Targets supported: x86_64-apple-darwin aarch64-apple-darwin
+set -e
 
 prebuild_rust() {
     # Building here for the sake of easier debugging.

docs/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# LanceDB Documentation
+
+LanceDB docs are deployed to https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/.
+
+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`
+2. Install dependencies. From LanceDB repo root: `pip install -r docs/requirements.txt`
+3. Make sure you have node and npm setup
+4. Make sure protobuf and libssl are installed
+
+### Building node module and create markdown files
+
+See [Javascript docs README](docs/src/javascript/README.md)
+
+### 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.

docs/mkdocs.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 site_name: LanceDB Docs
+site_url: https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/
 repo_url: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb
 edit_uri: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/tree/main/docs/src
 repo_name: lancedb/lancedb
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ theme:
     - navigation.tracking
     - navigation.instant
     - navigation.indexes
+    - navigation.expand
   icon:
     repo: fontawesome/brands/github
   custom_dir: overrides
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ plugins:
           docstring_style: numpy
         rendering:
           heading_level: 4
-          show_source: false
+          show_source: true
           show_symbol_type_in_heading: true
           show_signature_annotations: true
           show_root_heading: true
@@ -68,11 +70,18 @@ nav:
   - 🏢 Home: index.md
   - 💡 Basics: basic.md
   - 📚 Guides:
-    - Tables: guides/tables.md
+    - Create Ingest Update Delete: guides/tables.md
     - Vector Search: search.md
     - SQL filters: sql.md
     - Indexing: ann_indexes.md
-  - 🧬 Embeddings: embedding.md
+    - Versioning & Reproducibility: notebooks/reproducibility.ipynb
+  - 🧬 Embeddings:
+    - embeddings/index.md
+    - Ingest Embedding Functions: embeddings/embedding_functions.md
+    - Available Functions: embeddings/default_embedding_functions.md
+    - Create Custom Embedding Functions: embeddings/api.md
+    - Example - Multi-lingual semantic search: notebooks/multi_lingual_example.ipynb
+    - Example - MultiModal CLIP Embeddings: notebooks/DisappearingEmbeddingFunction.ipynb
   - 🔍 Python full-text search: fts.md
   - 🔌 Integrations:
     - integrations/index.md
@@ -89,6 +98,7 @@ nav:
     - YouTube Transcript Search: notebooks/youtube_transcript_search.ipynb
     - Documentation QA Bot using LangChain: notebooks/code_qa_bot.ipynb
     - Multimodal search using CLIP: notebooks/multimodal_search.ipynb
+    - Example - Calculate CLIP Embeddings with Roboflow Inference: examples/image_embeddings_roboflow.md
     - 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 examples:
@@ -96,13 +106,22 @@ nav:
     - 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
+  - ⚙️ CLI & Config: cli_config.md
+
 - Basics: basic.md
 - Guides:
-  - Tables: guides/tables.md
+  - Create Ingest Update Delete: guides/tables.md
   - Vector Search: search.md
   - SQL filters: sql.md
   - Indexing: ann_indexes.md
-- Embeddings: embedding.md
+  - Versioning & Reproducibility: notebooks/reproducibility.ipynb
+- Embeddings:
+  - embeddings/index.md
+  - Ingest Embedding Functions: embeddings/embedding_functions.md
+  - Available Functions: embeddings/default_embedding_functions.md
+  - Create Custom Embedding Functions: embeddings/api.md
+  - Example - Multi-lingual semantic search: notebooks/multi_lingual_example.ipynb
+  - Example - MultiModal CLIP Embeddings: notebooks/DisappearingEmbeddingFunction.ipynb
 - Python full-text search: fts.md
 - Integrations:
   - integrations/index.md
@@ -127,7 +146,8 @@ nav:
   - Serverless Chatbot from any website: examples/serverless_website_chatbot.md
   - TransformersJS Embedding Search: examples/transformerjs_embedding_search_nodejs.md
 - API references:
-  - Python API: python/python.md
+  - OSS Python API: python/python.md
+  - SaaS Python API: python/saas-python.md
   - Javascript API: javascript/modules.md
 - LanceDB Cloud↗: https://noteforms.com/forms/lancedb-mailing-list-cloud-kty1o5?notionforms=1&utm_source=notionforms
 

docs/src/ann_indexes.md

@@ -71,9 +71,41 @@ a single PQ code.
 ### Use GPU to build vector index
 
 Lance Python SDK has experimental GPU support for creating IVF index.
+Using GPU for index creation requires [PyTorch>2.0](https://pytorch.org/) being installed.
+
 You can specify the GPU device to train IVF partitions via
 
-- **accelerator**: Specify to `"cuda"`` to enable GPU training.
+- **accelerator**: Specify to ``cuda`` or ``mps`` (on Apple Silicon) to enable GPU training.
+
+=== "Linux"
+
+     <!-- skip-test -->
+     ``` { .python .copy }
+     # Create index using CUDA on Nvidia GPUs.
+     tbl.create_index(
+          num_partitions=256,
+          num_sub_vectors=96,
+          accelerator="cuda"
+     )
+     ```
+
+=== "Macos"
+
+     <!-- skip-test -->
+     ```python
+     # Create index using MPS on Apple Silicon.
+     tbl.create_index(
+          num_partitions=256,
+          num_sub_vectors=96,
+          accelerator="mps"
+     )
+     ```
+
+Trouble shootings:
+
+If you see ``AssertionError: Torch not compiled with CUDA enabled``, you need to [install
+PyTorch with CUDA support](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/).
+
 
 ## Querying an ANN Index
 
@@ -97,7 +129,7 @@ There are a couple of parameters that can be used to fine-tune the search:
          .limit(2) \
          .nprobes(20) \
          .refine_factor(10) \
-         .to_df()
+         .to_pandas()
      ```
      ```
                                               vector       item       _distance
@@ -124,7 +156,7 @@ You can further filter the elements returned by a search using a where clause.
 
 === "Python"
      ```python
-     tbl.search(np.random.random((1536))).where("item != 'item 1141'").to_df()
+     tbl.search(np.random.random((1536))).where("item != 'item 1141'").to_pandas()
      ```
 
 === "Javascript"
@@ -141,7 +173,7 @@ You can select the columns returned by the query using a select clause.
 
 === "Python"
      ```python
-     tbl.search(np.random.random((1536))).select(["vector"]).to_df()
+     tbl.search(np.random.random((1536))).select(["vector"]).to_pandas()
      ```
      ```
         vector                                             _distance

docs/src/basic.md

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Once you've embedded the query, you can find its nearest neighbors using the fol
 
 === "Python"
       ```python
-      tbl.search([100, 100]).limit(2).to_df()
+      tbl.search([100, 100]).limit(2).to_pandas()
       ```
 
       This returns a pandas DataFrame with the results.

docs/src/cli_config.md

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+
+## LanceDB CLI
+Once lanceDB is installed, you can access the CLI using `lancedb` command on the console
+```
+lancedb
+```
+This lists out all the various command-line options available. You can get the usage or help for a particular command
+```
+lancedb {command} --help
+```
+
+## LanceDB config
+LanceDB uses a global config file to store certain settings. These settings are configurable using the lanceDB cli.
+To view your config settings, you can use:
+```
+lancedb config
+```
+These config parameters can be tuned using the cli.
+```
+lancedb {config_name} --{argument}
+```
+
+## LanceDB Opt-in Diagnostics
+When enabled, LanceDB will send anonymous events to help us improve LanceDB. These diagnostics are used only for error reporting and no data is collected. Error & stats allow us to automate certain aspects of bug reporting, prioritization of fixes and feature requests.
+These diagnostics are opt-in and can be enabled or disabled using the `lancedb diagnostics` command. These are enabled by default.
+Get usage help.
+```
+lancedb diagnostics --help
+```
+Disable diagnostics
+```
+lancedb diagnostics --disabled
+```
+Enable diagnostics
+```
+lancedb diagnostics --enabled
+```

docs/src/embeddings/api.md

@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+To use your own custom embedding function, you need to follow these 2 simple steps.
+1. Create your embedding function by implementing the `EmbeddingFunction` interface
+2. Register your embedding function in the global `EmbeddingFunctionRegistry`.
+
+Let us see how this looks like in action.
+
+![](../assets/embeddings_api.png)
+
+
+`EmbeddingFunction` & `EmbeddingFunctionRegistry` handle low-level details for serializing schema and model information as metadata. To build a custom embdding function, you don't need to worry about those details and simply focus on setting up the model.
+
+## `TextEmbeddingFunction` Interface
+
+There is another optional layer of abstraction provided in form of `TextEmbeddingFunction`. You can use this if your model isn't multi-modal in nature and only operates on text. In such case both source and vector fields will have the same pathway for vectorization, so you simply just need to setup the model and rest is handled by `TextEmbeddingFunction`. You can read more about the class and its attributes in the class reference.
+
+
+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
+from lancedb.embeddings import register
+
+@register("sentence-transformers")
+class SentenceTransformerEmbeddings(TextEmbeddingFunction):
+    name: str = "all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
+    # set more default instance vars like device, etc.
+
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self._ndims = None
+    
+    def generate_embeddings(self, texts):
+        return self._embedding_model().encode(list(texts), ...).tolist()
+
+    def ndims(self):
+        if self._ndims is None:
+            self._ndims = len(self.generate_embeddings("foo")[0])
+        return self._ndims
+
+    @cached(cache={}) 
+    def _embedding_model(self):
+        return sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformer(name)
+
+```
+
+This is a stripped down version of our implementation of `SentenceTransformerEmbeddings` that removes certain optimizations and defaul settings.
+
+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
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+
+registry = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance()
+stransformer = registry.get("sentence-transformers").create()
+
+class TextModelSchema(LanceModel):
+    vector: Vector(stransformer.ndims) = stransformer.VectorField()
+    text: str = stransformer.SourceField()
+
+tbl = db.create_table("table", schema=TextModelSchema)
+
+tbl.add(pd.DataFrame({"text": ["halo", "world"]}))
+result = tbl.search("world").limit(5)
+```
+
+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.
+
+```python
+@register("open-clip")
+class OpenClipEmbeddings(EmbeddingFunction):
+    name: str = "ViT-B-32"
+    pretrained: str = "laion2b_s34b_b79k"
+    device: str = "cpu"
+    batch_size: int = 64
+    normalize: bool = True
+    _model = PrivateAttr()
+    _preprocess = PrivateAttr()
+    _tokenizer = PrivateAttr()
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        open_clip = self.safe_import("open_clip", "open-clip") # EmbeddingFunction util to import external libs and raise if not found
+        model, _, preprocess = open_clip.create_model_and_transforms(
+            self.name, pretrained=self.pretrained
+        )
+        model.to(self.device)
+        self._model, self._preprocess = model, preprocess
+        self._tokenizer = open_clip.get_tokenizer(self.name)
+        self._ndims = None
+
+    def ndims(self):
+        if self._ndims is None:
+            self._ndims = self.generate_text_embeddings("foo").shape[0]
+        return self._ndims
+
+    def compute_query_embeddings(
+        self, query: Union[str, "PIL.Image.Image"], *args, **kwargs
+    ) -> List[np.ndarray]:
+        """
+        Compute the embeddings for a given user query
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        query : Union[str, PIL.Image.Image]
+            The query to embed. A query can be either text or an image.
+        """
+        if isinstance(query, str):
+            return [self.generate_text_embeddings(query)]
+        else:
+            PIL = self.safe_import("PIL", "pillow")
+            if isinstance(query, PIL.Image.Image):
+                return [self.generate_image_embedding(query)]
+            else:
+                raise TypeError("OpenClip supports str or PIL Image as query")
+
+    def generate_text_embeddings(self, text: str) -> np.ndarray:
+        torch = self.safe_import("torch")
+        text = self.sanitize_input(text)
+        text = self._tokenizer(text)
+        text.to(self.device)
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            text_features = self._model.encode_text(text.to(self.device))
+            if self.normalize:
+                text_features /= text_features.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+            return text_features.cpu().numpy().squeeze()
+
+    def sanitize_input(self, images: IMAGES) -> Union[List[bytes], np.ndarray]:
+        """
+        Sanitize the input to the embedding function.
+        """
+        if isinstance(images, (str, bytes)):
+            images = [images]
+        elif isinstance(images, pa.Array):
+            images = images.to_pylist()
+        elif isinstance(images, pa.ChunkedArray):
+            images = images.combine_chunks().to_pylist()
+        return images
+
+    def compute_source_embeddings(
+        self, images: IMAGES, *args, **kwargs
+    ) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Get the embeddings for the given images
+        """
+        images = self.sanitize_input(images)
+        embeddings = []
+        for i in range(0, len(images), self.batch_size):
+            j = min(i + self.batch_size, len(images))
+            batch = images[i:j]
+            embeddings.extend(self._parallel_get(batch))
+        return embeddings
+
+    def _parallel_get(self, images: Union[List[str], List[bytes]]) -> List[np.ndarray]:
+        """
+        Issue concurrent requests to retrieve the image data
+        """
+        with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor() as executor:
+            futures = [
+                executor.submit(self.generate_image_embedding, image)
+                for image in images
+            ]
+            return [future.result() for future in futures]
+
+    def generate_image_embedding(
+        self, image: Union[str, bytes, "PIL.Image.Image"]
+    ) -> np.ndarray:
+        """
+        Generate the embedding for a single image
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        image : Union[str, bytes, PIL.Image.Image]
+            The image to embed. If the image is a str, it is treated as a uri.
+            If the image is bytes, it is treated as the raw image bytes.
+        """
+        torch = self.safe_import("torch")
+        # TODO handle retry and errors for https
+        image = self._to_pil(image)
+        image = self._preprocess(image).unsqueeze(0)
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            return self._encode_and_normalize_image(image)
+
+    def _to_pil(self, image: Union[str, bytes]):
+        PIL = self.safe_import("PIL", "pillow")
+        if isinstance(image, bytes):
+            return PIL.Image.open(io.BytesIO(image))
+        if isinstance(image, PIL.Image.Image):
+            return image
+        elif isinstance(image, str):
+            parsed = urlparse.urlparse(image)
+            # TODO handle drive letter on windows.
+            if parsed.scheme == "file":
+                return PIL.Image.open(parsed.path)
+            elif parsed.scheme == "":
+                return PIL.Image.open(image if os.name == "nt" else parsed.path)
+            elif parsed.scheme.startswith("http"):
+                return PIL.Image.open(io.BytesIO(url_retrieve(image)))
+            else:
+                raise NotImplementedError("Only local and http(s) urls are supported")
+
+    def _encode_and_normalize_image(self, image_tensor: "torch.Tensor"):
+        """
+        encode a single image tensor and optionally normalize the output
+        """
+        image_features = self._model.encode_image(image_tensor)
+        if self.normalize:
+            image_features /= image_features.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+        return image_features.cpu().numpy().squeeze()
+```

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+There are various Embedding functions available out of the box with lancedb. We're working on supporting other popular embedding APIs.
+
+## Text Embedding Functions
+Here are the text embedding functions registered by default.
+Embedding functions have inbuilt rate limit handler wrapper for source and query embedding function calls that retry with exponential standoff. 
+Each `EmbeddingFunction` implementation automatically takes `max_retries` as an argument which has the deafult value of 7.
+
+### Sentence Transformers
+Here are the parameters that you can set when registering a `sentence-transformers` object, and their default values:
+
+| 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. |
+
+
+```python
+db = lancedb.connect("/tmp/db")
+registry = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance()
+func = registry.get("sentence-transformers").create(device="cpu")
+
+class Words(LanceModel):
+    text: str = func.SourceField()
+    vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.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)
+```
+
+### OpenAIEmbeddings
+LanceDB has OpenAI embeddings function in the registry by default. It is registered as `openai` and here 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. |
+
+
+
+```python
+db = lancedb.connect("/tmp/db")
+registry = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance()
+func = registry.get("openai").create()
+
+class Words(LanceModel):
+    text: str = func.SourceField()
+    vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.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)
+```
+
+### Instructor Embeddings
+Instructor 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 may follow the unified template to write instructions:
+
+                          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 here - 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)
+```
+
+## Multi-modal embedding functions
+Multi-modal embedding functions allow you query your table using both images and text.
+
+### OpenClipEmbeddings
+We support CLIP model embeddings using the open souce alternbative, open-clip which support various customizations. It is registered as `open-clip` and supports 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.
+
+NOTE:
+LanceDB supports ingesting images directly from accessible links.
+
+
+```python
+
+db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
+registry = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance()
+func = 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(
+    [{"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)
+
+```
+
+If you have any questions about the embeddings API, supported models, or see a relevant model missing, please raise an issue.

docs/src/embeddings/embedding_functions.md

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+Representing multi-modal data as vector embeddings is becoming a standard practice. Embedding functions themselves be thought of as a part of the processing pipeline that each request(input) has to be passed through. After initial setup these components are not expected to change for a particular project. 
+
+This is main motivation behind our new embedding functions API, that allow you simply set it up once and the table remembers it, effectively making the **embedding functions disappear in the background** so you don't have to worry about modelling and simply focus on the DB aspects of VectorDB.
+
+
+You can simply follow these steps and forget about the details of your embedding functions as long as you don't intend to change it.
+
+### Step 1 - Define the embedding function
+We have some pre-defined embedding functions in the global registry with more coming soon. Here's let's an implementation of CLIP as example.
+```
+registry = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance()
+clip = registry.get("open-clip").create()
+
+```
+You can also define your own embedding function by implementing the `EmbeddingFunction` abstract base interface. It subclasses PyDantic Model which can be utilized to write complex schemas simply as we'll see next!
+
+### Step 2 - Define the Data Model or Schema
+Our embedding function from the previous section abstracts away all the details about the models and dimensions required to define the schema. You can simply set a feild as **source** or **vector** column. Here's how
+
+```python
+class Pets(LanceModel):
+    vector: Vector(clip.ndims) = clip.VectorField()
+    image_uri: str = clip.SourceField()
+
+```
+`VectorField` tells LanceDB to use the clip embedding function to generate query embeddings for `vector` column & `SourceField` tells that when adding data, automatically use the embedding function to encode `image_uri`.
+
+
+### Step 3 - Create LanceDB Table
+Now that we have chosen/defined our embedding function and the schema, we can create the table
+
+```python
+db = lancedb.connect("~/lancedb")
+table = db.create_table("pets", schema=Pets)
+
+```
+That's it! We have ingested all the information needed to embed source and query inputs. We can now forget about the model and dimension details and start to build or VectorDB
+
+### Step 4 - Ingest lots of data and run vector search!
+Now you can just add the data and it'll be vectorized automatically
+
+```python
+table.add([{"image_uri": u} for u in uris])
+```
+
+Our OpenCLIP query embedding function support querying via both text and images. 
+
+```python
+result = table.search("dog")
+```
+
+Let's query an image
+
+```python
+p = Path("path/to/images/samoyed_100.jpg")
+query_image = Image.open(p)
+table.search(query_image)
+
+```
+### Rate limit Handling
+`EmbeddingFunction` class wraps the calls for source and query embedding generation inside a rate limit handler that retries the requests with exponential backoff after successive failures. By default the maximum retires is set to 7. You can tune it by setting it to a different number or disable it by setting it to 0.
+Example
+----
+
+```python
+clip = registry.get("open-clip").create() # Defaults to 7 max retries
+clip = registry.get("open-clip").create(max_retries=10) # Increase max retries to 10
+clip = registry.get("open-clip").create(max_retries=0) # Retries disabled
+````
+
+NOTE:
+Embedding functions can also fail due to other errors that have nothing to do with rate limits. This is why the error is also logged.
+
+### A little fun with PyDantic
+LanceDB is integrated with PyDantic. Infact we've used the integration in the above example to define the schema. It is also being used behing the scene by the embdding function API to ingest useful information as table metadata.
+You can also use it for adding utility operations in the schema. For example, in our multi-modal example, you can search images using text or another image. Let us define a utility function to plot the image.
+```python
+class Pets(LanceModel):
+    vector: Vector(clip.ndims) = clip.VectorField()
+    image_uri: str = clip.SourceField()
+
+    @property
+    def image(self):
+        return Image.open(self.image_uri)
+```
+Now, you can covert your search results to pydantic model and use this property.
+
+```python
+rs = table.search(query_image).limit(3).to_pydantic(Pets)
+rs[2].image
+```
+
+![](../assets/dog_clip_output.png)
+
+Now that you've the basic idea about LanceDB embedding function, let us now dive deeper into the API that you can use to implement your own embedding functions!

docs/src/embeddings/index.md

@@ -1,13 +1,20 @@
-# Embedding Functions
+# Embedding
 
-Embeddings are high dimensional floating-point vector representations of your data or query.
-Anything can be embedded using some embedding model or function.
-For a given embedding function, the output will always have the same number of dimensions.
+Embeddings are high dimensional floating-point vector representations of your data or query. Anything can be embedded using some embedding model or function. Position of embedding in a high dimensional vector space has semantic significance to a degree that depends on the type of modal and training. These embeddings when projected in a 2-D space generally group similar entities close-by forming groups.
 
-## Creating an embedding function
+![](../assets/embedding_intro.png)
 
-Any function that takes as input a batch (list) of data and outputs a batch (list) of embeddings
-can be used by LanceDB as an embedding function. The input and output batch sizes should be the same.
+# Creating an embedding function
+
+LanceDB supports 2 major ways of vectorizing your data, explicit and implicit.
+
+1. By manually embedding the data before ingesting in the table
+2. By automatically embedding the data and query as they come, by ingesting embedding function information in the table itself! Covered in [Next Section](embedding_functions.md)
+
+Whatever workflow you prefer, we have the tools to support you.
+## Explicit Vectorization
+
+In this workflow, you can create your embedding function and vectorize your data using lancedb's `with_embedding` function. Let's look at some examples.
 
 ### HuggingFace example
 
@@ -118,7 +125,7 @@ belong in the same latent space and your results will be nonsensical.
      ```python
      query = "What's the best pizza topping?"
      query_vector = embed_func([query])[0]
-     tbl.search(query_vector).limit(10).to_df()
+     tbl.search(query_vector).limit(10).to_pandas()
      ```
 
      The above snippet returns a pandas DataFrame with the 10 closest vectors to the query.
@@ -134,9 +141,9 @@ belong in the same latent space and your results will be nonsensical.
      The above snippet returns an array of records with the 10 closest vectors to the query.
 
 
-## Roadmap
+## Implicit vectorization / Ingesting embedding functions
+Representing multi-modal data as vector embeddings is becoming a standard practice. Embedding functions themselves be thought of as a part of the processing pipeline that each request(input) has to be passed through. After initial setup these components are not expected to change for a particular project. 
 
-In the near future, we'll be integrating the embedding functions deeper into LanceDB<br/>.
-The goal is that you just have to configure the function once when you create the table,
-and then you'll never have to deal with embeddings / vectors after that unless you want to.
-We'll also integrate more popular models and APIs.
+This is main motivation behind our new embedding functions API, that allow you simply set it up once and the table remembers it, effectively making the **embedding functions disappear in the background** so you don't have to worry about modelling and simply focus on the DB aspects of VectorDB.
+
+Learn more in the Next Section

docs/src/examples/image_embeddings_roboflow.md

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+# How to Load Image Embeddings into LanceDB
+
+With the rise of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) such as [GPT-4 Vision](https://blog.roboflow.com/gpt-4-vision/), the need for storing image embeddings is growing. The most effective way to store text and image embeddings is in a vector database such as LanceDB. Vector databases are a special kind of data store that enables efficient search over stored embeddings. 
+
+[CLIP](https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-clip/), a multimodal model developed by OpenAI, is commonly used to calculate image embeddings. These embeddings can then be used with a vector database to build a semantic search engine that you can query using images or text. For example, you could use LanceDB and CLIP embeddings to build a search engine for a database of folders.
+
+In this guide, we are going to show you how to use Roboflow Inference to load image embeddings into LanceDB. Without further ado, let’s get started!
+
+## Step #1: Install Roboflow Inference
+
+[Roboflow Inference](https://inference.roboflow.com) enables you to run state-of-the-art computer vision models with minimal configuration. Inference supports a range of models, from fine-tuned object detection, classification, and segmentation models to foundation models like CLIP. We will use Inference to calculate CLIP image embeddings.
+
+Inference provides a HTTP API through which you can run vision models.
+
+Inference powers the Roboflow hosted API, and is available as an open source utility. In this guide, we are going to run Inference locally, which enables you to calculate CLIP embeddings on your own hardware. We will also show you how to use the hosted Roboflow CLIP API, which is ideal if you need to scale and do not want to manage a system for calculating embeddings.
+
+To get started, first install the Inference CLI:
+
+```
+pip install inference-cli
+```
+
+Next, install Docker. Refer to the official Docker installation instructions for your operating system to get Docker set up. Once Docker is ready, you can start Inference using the following command:
+
+```
+inference server start
+```
+
+An Inference server will start running at ‘http://localhost:9001’.
+
+## Step #2: Set Up a LanceDB Vector Database
+
+Now that we have Inference running, we can set up a LanceDB vector database. You can run LanceDB in JavaScript and Python. For this guide, we will use the Python API. But, you can take the HTTP requests we make below and change them to JavaScript if required.
+
+For this guide, we are going to search the [COCO 128 dataset](https://universe.roboflow.com/team-roboflow/coco-128), which contains a wide range of objects. The variability in objects present in this dataset makes it a good dataset to demonstrate the capabilities of vector search. If you want to use this dataset, you can download [COCO 128 from Roboflow Universe](https://universe.roboflow.com/team-roboflow/coco-128). With that said, you can search whatever folder of images you want.
+
+Once you have a dataset ready, install LanceDB with the following command:
+
+```
+pip install lancedb
+```
+
+We also need to install a specific commit of `tantivy`, a dependency of the LanceDB full text search engine we will use later in this guide:
+
+```
+pip install tantivy@git+https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy-py#164adc87e1a033117001cf70e38c82a53014d985
+```
+
+Create a new Python file and add the following code:
+
+```python
+import cv2
+import supervision as sv
+import requests
+
+import lancedb
+
+db = lancedb.connect("./embeddings")
+
+IMAGE_DIR = "images/"
+API_KEY = os.environ.get("ROBOFLOW_API_KEY")
+SERVER_URL = "http://localhost:9001"
+
+results = []
+
+for i, image in enumerate(os.listdir(IMAGE_DIR)):
+    infer_clip_payload = {
+        #Images can be provided as urls or as base64 encoded strings
+        "image": {
+            "type": "base64",
+            "value": base64.b64encode(open(IMAGE_DIR + image, "rb").read()).decode("utf-8"),
+        },
+    }
+
+    res = requests.post(
+        f"{SERVER_URL}/clip/embed_image?api_key={API_KEY}",
+        json=infer_clip_payload,
+    )
+
+    embeddings = res.json()['embeddings']
+
+    print("Calculated embedding for image: ", image)
+
+    image = {"vector": embeddings[0], "name": os.path.join(IMAGE_DIR, image)}
+
+    results.append(image)
+
+tbl = db.create_table("images", data=results)
+
+tbl.create_fts_index("name")
+```
+
+To use the code above, you will need a Roboflow API key. [Learn how to retrieve a Roboflow API key](https://docs.roboflow.com/api-reference/authentication#retrieve-an-api-key). Run the following command to set up your API key in your environment:
+
+```
+export ROBOFLOW_API_KEY=""
+```
+
+Replace the `IMAGE_DIR` value with the folder in which you are storing the images for which you want to calculate embeddings. If you want to use the Roboflow CLIP API to calculate embeddings, replace the `SERVER_URL` value with `https://infer.roboflow.com`.
+
+Run the script above to create a new LanceDB database. This database will be stored on your local machine. The database will be called `embeddings` and the table will be called `images`.
+
+The script above calculates all embeddings for a folder then creates a new table. To add additional images, use the following code:
+
+```python
+def make_batches():
+    for i in range(5):
+        yield [
+                {"vector": [3.1, 4.1], "name": "image1.png"},
+                {"vector": [5.9, 26.5], "name": "image2.png"}
+            ]
+
+tbl = db.open_table("images")
+tbl.add(make_batches())
+```
+
+Replacing the `make_batches()` function with code to load embeddings for images.
+
+## Step #3: Run a Search Query
+
+We are now ready to run a search query. To run a search query, we need a text embedding that represents a text query. We can use this embedding to search our LanceDB database for an entry.
+
+Let’s calculate a text embedding for the query “cat”, then run a search query:
+
+```python
+infer_clip_payload = {
+    "text": "cat",
+}
+
+res = requests.post(
+    f"{SERVER_URL}/clip/embed_text?api_key={API_KEY}",
+    json=infer_clip_payload,
+)
+
+embeddings = res.json()['embeddings']
+
+df = tbl.search(embeddings[0]).limit(3).to_list()
+
+print("Results:")
+
+for i in df:
+    print(i["name"])
+```
+
+This code will search for the three images most closely related to the prompt “cat”. The names of the most similar three images will be printed to the console. Here are the three top results:
+
+```
+dataset/images/train/000000000650_jpg.rf.1b74ba165c5a3513a3211d4a80b69e1c.jpg
+dataset/images/train/000000000138_jpg.rf.af439ef1c55dd8a4e4b142d186b9c957.jpg
+dataset/images/train/000000000165_jpg.rf.eae14d5509bf0c9ceccddbb53a5f0c66.jpg
+```
+
+Let’s open the top image:
+
+![Cat](https://media.roboflow.com/cat_lancedb.jpg)
+
+The top image was a cat. Our search was successful.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+LanceDB is a vector database that you can use to store and efficiently search your image embeddings. You can use Roboflow Inference, a scalable computer vision inference server, to calculate CLIP embeddings that you can store in LanceDB.
+
+You can use Inference and LanceDB together to build a range of applications with image embeddings, from a media search engine to a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline for use with LMMs.
+
+To learn more about Inference and its capabilities, refer to the Inference documentation.

docs/src/examples/serverless_lancedb_with_s3_and_lambda.md

@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ def handler(event, context):
     # Shape of SIFT is (128,1M), d=float32
     query_vector = np.array(event['query_vector'], dtype=np.float32)
 
-    rs = table.search(query_vector).limit(2).to_df()
+    rs = table.search(query_vector).limit(2).to_list()
 
     return {
         "statusCode": status_code,
         "headers": {
             "Content-Type": "application/json"
         },
-        "body": rs.to_json()
+        "body": json.dumps(rs)
     }
 ``` 
 

docs/src/fts.md

@@ -43,7 +43,13 @@ table.create_fts_index("text")
 To search:
 
 ```python
-df = table.search("puppy").limit(10).select(["text"]).to_df()
+table.search("puppy").limit(10).select(["text"]).to_list()
+```
+
+Which returns a list of dictionaries:
+
+```python
+[{'text': 'Frodo was a happy puppy', 'score': 0.6931471824645996}]
 ```
 
 LanceDB automatically looks for an FTS index if the input is str.

docs/src/guides/tables.md

@@ -251,8 +251,9 @@ After a table has been created, you can always add more data to it using
     ### Adding Pandas DataFrame
 
     ```python
-    df = pd.DataFrame([{"vector": [1.3, 1.4], "item": "fizz", "price": 100.0},
-                  {"vector": [9.5, 56.2], "item": "buzz", "price": 200.0}])
+    df = pd.DataFrame({
+        "vector": [[1.3, 1.4], [9.5, 56.2]], "item": ["fizz", "buzz"], "price": [100.0, 200.0]
+    })
     tbl.add(df)
     ```
 
@@ -261,17 +262,12 @@ After a table has been created, you can always add more data to it using
     ### Adding to table using Iterator
 
     ```python
-    import pandas as pd
-
     def make_batches():
         for i in range(5):
-            yield pd.DataFrame(
-                {
-                    "vector": [[3.1, 4.1], [1, 1]],
-                    "item": ["foo", "bar"],
-                    "price": [10.0, 20.0],
-                })
-
+            yield [
+                    {"vector": [3.1, 4.1], "item": "foo", "price": 10.0},
+                    {"vector": [5.9, 26.5], "item": "bar", "price": 20.0}
+                ]
     tbl.add(make_batches())
     ```
 
@@ -306,9 +302,10 @@ Use the `delete()` method on tables to delete rows from a table. To choose which
 
     ```python
     import lancedb
-    import pandas as pd
 
-    data = pd.DataFrame({"x": [1, 2, 3], "vector": [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]})
+    data = [{"x": 1, "vector": [1, 2]},
+            {"x": 2, "vector": [3, 4]},
+            {"x": 3, "vector": [5, 6]}]
     db = lancedb.connect("./.lancedb")
     table = db.create_table("my_table", data)
     table.to_pandas()
@@ -364,6 +361,48 @@ Use the `delete()` method on tables to delete rows from a table. To choose which
     await tbl.countRows() // Returns 1
     ```
 
+### Updating a Table [Experimental]
+EXPERIMENTAL: Update rows in the table (not threadsafe).
+
+This can be used to update zero to all rows depending on how many rows match the where clause.
+
+| Parameter | Type | Description |
+|---|---|---|
+| `where` | `str` | The SQL where clause to use when updating rows. For example, `'x = 2'` or `'x IN (1, 2, 3)'`. The filter must not be empty, or it will error. |
+| `values` | `dict` | The values to update. The keys are the column names and the values are the values to set. |
+
+
+=== "Python"
+
+    ```python
+    import lancedb
+    import pandas as pd
+
+    # Create a lancedb connection
+    db = lancedb.connect("./.lancedb")
+
+    # Create a table from a pandas DataFrame
+    data = pd.DataFrame({"x": [1, 2, 3], "vector": [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]})
+    table = db.create_table("my_table", data)
+
+    # Update the table where x = 2
+    table.update(where="x = 2", values={"vector": [10, 10]})
+
+    # Get the updated table as a pandas DataFrame
+    df = table.to_pandas()
+
+    # Print the DataFrame
+    print(df)
+    ```
+
+    Output
+    ```shell
+        x  vector
+    0  1  [1.0, 2.0]
+    1  3  [5.0, 6.0]
+    2  2  [10.0, 10.0]
+    ```
+
 ## What's Next?
 
 Learn how to Query your tables and create indices

docs/src/index.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ LanceDB's core is written in Rust 🦀 and is built using <a href="https://githu
       table = db.create_table("my_table",
                               data=[{"vector": [3.1, 4.1], "item": "foo", "price": 10.0},
                                     {"vector": [5.9, 26.5], "item": "bar", "price": 20.0}])
-      result = table.search([100, 100]).limit(2).to_df()
+      result = table.search([100, 100]).limit(2).to_list()
       ```
 
 === "Javascript"
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ LanceDB's core is written in Rust 🦀 and is built using <a href="https://githu
 
 ## Documentation Quick Links
 * [`Basic Operations`](basic.md) - basic functionality of LanceDB.
-* [`Embedding Functions`](embedding.md) - functions for working with embeddings.
+* [`Embedding Functions`](embeddings/index.md) - functions for working with embeddings.
 * [`Indexing`](ann_indexes.md) - create vector indexes to speed up queries.
 * [`Full text search`](fts.md) - [EXPERIMENTAL] full-text search API
 * [`Ecosystem Integrations`](python/integration.md) - integrating LanceDB with python data tooling ecosystem.

docs/src/notebooks/multimodal_search.ipynb

@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
       "\n",
-      "\u001b[1m[\u001b[0m\u001b[34;49mnotice\u001b[0m\u001b[1;39;49m]\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m A new release of pip available: \u001b[0m\u001b[31;49m22.3.1\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m -> \u001b[0m\u001b[32;49m23.1.2\u001b[0m\n",
-      "\u001b[1m[\u001b[0m\u001b[34;49mnotice\u001b[0m\u001b[1;39;49m]\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m To update, run: \u001b[0m\u001b[32;49mpip install --upgrade pip\u001b[0m\n",
+      "\u001B[1m[\u001B[0m\u001B[34;49mnotice\u001B[0m\u001B[1;39;49m]\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m A new release of pip available: \u001B[0m\u001B[31;49m22.3.1\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m -> \u001B[0m\u001B[32;49m23.1.2\u001B[0m\n",
+      "\u001B[1m[\u001B[0m\u001B[34;49mnotice\u001B[0m\u001B[1;39;49m]\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m To update, run: \u001B[0m\u001B[32;49mpip install --upgrade pip\u001B[0m\n",
       "\n",
-      "\u001b[1m[\u001b[0m\u001b[34;49mnotice\u001b[0m\u001b[1;39;49m]\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m A new release of pip available: \u001b[0m\u001b[31;49m22.3.1\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m -> \u001b[0m\u001b[32;49m23.1.2\u001b[0m\n",
-      "\u001b[1m[\u001b[0m\u001b[34;49mnotice\u001b[0m\u001b[1;39;49m]\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m To update, run: \u001b[0m\u001b[32;49mpip install --upgrade pip\u001b[0m\n"
+      "\u001B[1m[\u001B[0m\u001B[34;49mnotice\u001B[0m\u001B[1;39;49m]\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m A new release of pip available: \u001B[0m\u001B[31;49m22.3.1\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m -> \u001B[0m\u001B[32;49m23.1.2\u001B[0m\n",
+      "\u001B[1m[\u001B[0m\u001B[34;49mnotice\u001B[0m\u001B[1;39;49m]\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m To update, run: \u001B[0m\u001B[32;49mpip install --upgrade pip\u001B[0m\n"
      ]
     }
    ],
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "import io\n",
+    "\n",
     "import PIL\n",
     "import duckdb\n",
     "import lancedb"
@@ -158,18 +159,18 @@
     "        \"db = lancedb.connect('~/datasets/demo')\\n\"\n",
     "        \"tbl = db.open_table('diffusiondb')\\n\\n\"\n",
     "        f\"embedding = embed_func('{query}')\\n\"\n",
-    "        \"tbl.search(embedding).limit(9).to_df()\"\n",
+    "        \"tbl.search(embedding).limit(9).to_pandas()\"\n",
     "    )\n",
-    "    return (_extract(tbl.search(emb).limit(9).to_df()), code)\n",
+    "    return (_extract(tbl.search(emb).limit(9).to_pandas()), code)\n",
     "\n",
     "def find_image_keywords(query):\n",
     "    code = (\n",
     "        \"import lancedb\\n\"\n",
     "        \"db = lancedb.connect('~/datasets/demo')\\n\"\n",
     "        \"tbl = db.open_table('diffusiondb')\\n\\n\"\n",
-    "        f\"tbl.search('{query}').limit(9).to_df()\"\n",
+    "        f\"tbl.search('{query}').limit(9).to_pandas()\"\n",
     "    )\n",
-    "    return (_extract(tbl.search(query).limit(9).to_df()), code)\n",
+    "    return (_extract(tbl.search(query).limit(9).to_pandas()), code)\n",
     "\n",
     "def find_image_sql(query):\n",
     "    code = (\n",

docs/src/notebooks/tables_guide.ipynb

@@ -114,13 +114,10 @@
     }
    ],
    "source": [
-    "import pandas as pd\n",
-    "\n",
-    "data = pd.DataFrame({\n",
-    "    \"vector\": [[1.1, 1.2], [0.2, 1.8]],\n",
-    "    \"lat\": [45.5, 40.1],\n",
-    "    \"long\": [-122.7, -74.1]\n",
-    "})\n",
+    "data = [\n",
+    "    {\"vector\": [1.1, 1.2], \"lat\": 45.5, \"long\": -122.7},\n",
+    "    {\"vector\": [0.2, 1.8], \"lat\": 40.1, \"long\": -74.1},\n",
+    "]\n",
     "\n",
     "db.create_table(\"table2\", data)\n",
     "\n",
@@ -572,9 +569,11 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "df = pd.DataFrame([{\"vector\": [1.3, 1.4], \"item\": \"fizz\", \"price\": 100.0},\n",
-    "              {\"vector\": [9.5, 56.2], \"item\": \"buzz\", \"price\": 200.0}])\n",
-    "tbl.add(df)"
+    "data = [\n",
+    "        {\"vector\": [1.3, 1.4], \"item\": \"fizz\", \"price\": 100.0},\n",
+    "        {\"vector\": [9.5, 56.2], \"item\": \"buzz\", \"price\": 200.0}\n",
+    "]\n",
+    "tbl.add(data)"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -596,17 +595,12 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "\n",
-    "import pandas as pd\n",
-    "\n",
     "def make_batches():\n",
     "    for i in range(5):\n",
-    "        yield pd.DataFrame(\n",
-    "                {\n",
-    "                    \"vector\": [[3.1, 4.1], [1, 1]],\n",
-    "                    \"item\": [\"foo\", \"bar\"],\n",
-    "                    \"price\": [10.0, 20.0],\n",
-    "                })\n",
+    "        yield [\n",
+    "                  {\"vector\": [3.1, 4.1], \"item\": \"foo\", \"price\": 10.0},\n",
+    "                  {\"vector\": [1, 1], \"item\": \"bar\", \"price\": 20.0},\n",
+    "              ]\n",
     "tbl.add(make_batches())"
    ]
   },

docs/src/notebooks/youtube_transcript_search.ipynb

@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
       "\n",
-      "\u001b[1m[\u001b[0m\u001b[34;49mnotice\u001b[0m\u001b[1;39;49m]\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m A new release of pip is available: \u001b[0m\u001b[31;49m23.0\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m -> \u001b[0m\u001b[32;49m23.1.1\u001b[0m\n",
-      "\u001b[1m[\u001b[0m\u001b[34;49mnotice\u001b[0m\u001b[1;39;49m]\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m To update, run: \u001b[0m\u001b[32;49mpip install --upgrade pip\u001b[0m\n",
+      "\u001B[1m[\u001B[0m\u001B[34;49mnotice\u001B[0m\u001B[1;39;49m]\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m A new release of pip is available: \u001B[0m\u001B[31;49m23.0\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m -> \u001B[0m\u001B[32;49m23.1.1\u001B[0m\n",
+      "\u001B[1m[\u001B[0m\u001B[34;49mnotice\u001B[0m\u001B[1;39;49m]\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m To update, run: \u001B[0m\u001B[32;49mpip install --upgrade pip\u001B[0m\n",
       "\n",
-      "\u001b[1m[\u001b[0m\u001b[34;49mnotice\u001b[0m\u001b[1;39;49m]\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m A new release of pip is available: \u001b[0m\u001b[31;49m23.0\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m -> \u001b[0m\u001b[32;49m23.1.1\u001b[0m\n",
-      "\u001b[1m[\u001b[0m\u001b[34;49mnotice\u001b[0m\u001b[1;39;49m]\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m To update, run: \u001b[0m\u001b[32;49mpip install --upgrade pip\u001b[0m\n"
+      "\u001B[1m[\u001B[0m\u001B[34;49mnotice\u001B[0m\u001B[1;39;49m]\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m A new release of pip is available: \u001B[0m\u001B[31;49m23.0\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m -> \u001B[0m\u001B[32;49m23.1.1\u001B[0m\n",
+      "\u001B[1m[\u001B[0m\u001B[34;49mnotice\u001B[0m\u001B[1;39;49m]\u001B[0m\u001B[39;49m To update, run: \u001B[0m\u001B[32;49mpip install --upgrade pip\u001B[0m\n"
      ]
     }
    ],
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
     "df = (contextualize(data.to_pandas())\n",
     "      .groupby(\"title\").text_col(\"text\")\n",
     "      .window(20).stride(4)\n",
-    "      .to_df())\n",
+    "      .to_pandas())\n",
     "df.head(1)"
    ]
   },
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "# Use LanceDB to get top 3 most relevant context\n",
-    "context = tbl.search(emb).limit(3).to_df()"
+    "context = tbl.search(emb).limit(3).to_pandas()"
    ]
   },
   {

docs/src/python/arrow.md

@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ to lazily generate data:
 
 from typing import Iterable
 import pyarrow as pa
-import lancedb
 
 def make_batches() -> Iterable[pa.RecordBatch]:
     for i in range(5):
@@ -74,7 +73,7 @@ table = db.open_table("pd_table")
 
 query_vector = [100, 100]
 # Pandas DataFrame
-df = table.search(query_vector).limit(1).to_df()
+df = table.search(query_vector).limit(1).to_pandas()
 print(df)
 ```
 
@@ -89,12 +88,12 @@ If you have more complex criteria, you can always apply the filter to the result
 ```python
 
 # Apply the filter via LanceDB
-results = table.search([100, 100]).where("price < 15").to_df()
+results = table.search([100, 100]).where("price < 15").to_pandas()
 assert len(results) == 1
 assert results["item"].iloc[0] == "foo"
 
 # Apply the filter via Pandas
-df = results = table.search([100, 100]).to_df()
+df = results = table.search([100, 100]).to_pandas()
 results = df[df.price < 15]
 assert len(results) == 1
 assert results["item"].iloc[0] == "foo"

docs/src/python/duckdb.md

@@ -11,15 +11,13 @@ pip install duckdb lancedb
 We will re-use [the dataset created previously](./arrow.md):
 
 ```python
-import pandas as pd
 import lancedb
 
 db = lancedb.connect("data/sample-lancedb")
-data = pd.DataFrame({
-    "vector": [[3.1, 4.1], [5.9, 26.5]],
-    "item": ["foo", "bar"],
-    "price": [10.0, 20.0]
-})
+data = [
+    {"vector": [3.1, 4.1], "item": "foo", "price": 10.0},
+    {"vector": [5.9, 26.5], "item": "bar", "price": 20.0}
+]
 table = db.create_table("pd_table", data=data)
 arrow_table = table.to_arrow()
 ```

docs/src/python/python.md

@@ -22,21 +22,19 @@ pip install lancedb
 
 ::: lancedb.query.LanceQueryBuilder
 
-::: lancedb.query.LanceFtsQueryBuilder
-
 ## Embeddings
 
-::: lancedb.embeddings.functions.EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+::: lancedb.embeddings.registry.EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
 
-::: lancedb.embeddings.functions.EmbeddingFunction
+::: lancedb.embeddings.base.EmbeddingFunction
 
-::: lancedb.embeddings.functions.TextEmbeddingFunction
+::: lancedb.embeddings.base.TextEmbeddingFunction
 
-::: lancedb.embeddings.functions.SentenceTransformerEmbeddings
+::: lancedb.embeddings.sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformerEmbeddings
 
-::: lancedb.embeddings.functions.OpenAIEmbeddings
+::: lancedb.embeddings.openai.OpenAIEmbeddings
 
-::: lancedb.embeddings.functions.OpenClipEmbeddings
+::: lancedb.embeddings.open_clip.OpenClipEmbeddings
 
 ::: lancedb.embeddings.with_embeddings
 
@@ -56,7 +54,7 @@ pip install lancedb
 
 ## Utilities
 
-::: lancedb.vector
+::: lancedb.schema.vector
 
 ## Integrations
 

docs/src/python/saas-python.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# LanceDB Python API Reference
+
+## Installation
+
+```shell
+pip install lancedb
+```
+
+## Connection
+
+::: lancedb.connect
+
+::: lancedb.remote.db.RemoteDBConnection
+
+## Table
+
+::: lancedb.remote.table.RemoteTable
+

docs/src/robots.txt

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+User-agent: *

docs/src/scripts/posthog.js

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", (event) => {
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+    posthog.init('phc_oENDjGgHtmIDrV6puUiFem2RB4JA8gGWulfdulmMdZP',{api_host:'https://app.posthog.com'})
+});

docs/src/search.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 In a recommendation system or search engine, you can find similar products from
 the one you searched.
 In LLM and other AI applications,
-each data point can be [presented by the embeddings generated from some models](embedding.md),
+each data point can be [presented by the embeddings generated from some models](embeddings/index.md),
 it returns the most relevant features.
 
 A search in high-dimensional vector space, is to find `K-Nearest-Neighbors (KNN)` of the query vector.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ await db_setup.createTable('my_vectors', data)
 
     df = tbl.search(np.random.random((1536))) \
         .limit(10) \
-        .to_df()
+        .to_list()
     ```
 
 === "JavaScript"
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ as well.
     df = tbl.search(np.random.random((1536))) \
         .metric("cosine") \
         .limit(10) \
-        .to_df()
+        .to_list()
     ```
 
 

docs/test/md_testing.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const excludedGlobs = [
   "../src/embedding.md",
   "../src/examples/*.md",
   "../src/guides/tables.md",
+  "../src/embeddings/*.md",
 ];
 
 const nodePrefix = "javascript";

docs/test/md_testing.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ excluded_globs = [
     "../src/integrations/voxel51.md",
     "../src/guides/tables.md",
     "../src/python/duckdb.md",
+    "../src/embeddings/*.md",
 ]
 
 python_prefix = "py"
@@ -17,20 +18,31 @@ python_file = ".py"
 python_folder = "python"
 
 files = glob.glob(glob_string, recursive=True)
-excluded_files = [f for excluded_glob in excluded_globs for f in glob.glob(excluded_glob, recursive=True)]
+excluded_files = [
+    f
+    for excluded_glob in excluded_globs
+    for f in glob.glob(excluded_glob, recursive=True)
+]
+
 
 def yield_lines(lines: Iterator[str], prefix: str, suffix: str):
     in_code_block = False
     # Python code has strict indentation
     strip_length = 0
+    skip_test = False
     for line in lines:
+        if "skip-test" in line:
+            skip_test = True
         if line.strip().startswith(prefix + python_prefix):
             in_code_block = True
             strip_length = len(line) - len(line.lstrip())
         elif in_code_block and line.strip().startswith(suffix):
             in_code_block = False
+            if not skip_test:
                 yield "\n"
+            skip_test = False
         elif in_code_block:
+            if not skip_test:
                 yield line[strip_length:]
 
 for file in filter(lambda file: file not in excluded_files, files):
@@ -38,7 +50,12 @@ for file in filter(lambda file: file not in excluded_files, files):
         lines = list(yield_lines(iter(f), "```", "```"))
 
     if len(lines) > 0:
-        out_path = Path(python_folder) / Path(file).name.strip(".md") / (Path(file).name.strip(".md") + python_file)
+        print(lines)
+        out_path = (
+            Path(python_folder)
+            / Path(file).name.strip(".md")
+            / (Path(file).name.strip(".md") + python_file)
+        )
         print(out_path)
         out_path.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
         with open(out_path, "w") as out:

node/README.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ npm install vectordb
 
 This will download the appropriate native library for your platform. We currently
 support x86_64 Linux, aarch64 Linux, Intel MacOS, and ARM (M1/M2) MacOS. We do not
-yet support Windows or musl-based Linux (such as Alpine Linux).
+yet support musl-based Linux (such as Alpine Linux).
 
 ## Usage
 

node/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "vectordb",
-  "version": "0.3.0",
+  "version": "0.3.11",
   "lockfileVersion": 2,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "vectordb",
-      "version": "0.3.0",
+      "version": "0.3.11",
       "cpu": [
         "x64",
         "arm64"
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@
         "uuid": "^9.0.0"
       },
       "optionalDependencies": {
-        "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64": "0.3.0",
-        "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64": "0.3.0",
-        "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu": "0.3.0",
-        "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu": "0.3.0",
-        "@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc": "0.3.0"
+        "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64": "0.3.11",
+        "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64": "0.3.11",
+        "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu": "0.3.11",
+        "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu": "0.3.11",
+        "@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc": "0.3.11"
       }
     },
     "node_modules/@apache-arrow/ts": {
@@ -316,66 +316,6 @@
         "@jridgewell/sourcemap-codec": "^1.4.10"
       }
     },
-    "node_modules/@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64": {
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64/-/vectordb-darwin-arm64-0.3.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-Fg+k/cSnqmNQlSWyDp0PpaAJ67kAISfZAD+zZ3mcE8/3ml2I/wM/GVjPy2zeiQX9aR93lG1mZXFSNTDUc74tWQ==",
-      "cpu": [
-        "arm64"
-      ],
-      "optional": true,
-      "os": [
-        "darwin"
-      ]
-    },
-    "node_modules/@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64": {
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64/-/vectordb-darwin-x64-0.3.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-CXp4b/brMbnBPZuGzKIOskd9uD90R73rWubaJ0du/Kt6fcyQX1dM1wEhWTLxI6eKf8IDL/R9QLL2cIahm1J86w==",
-      "cpu": [
-        "x64"
-      ],
-      "optional": true,
-      "os": [
-        "darwin"
-      ]
-    },
-    "node_modules/@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu": {
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu/-/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu-0.3.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-1bjaRzYcDsWIRUbO2K/f+ohNmNvCgKcrrOhmiXSHVlYY8kH1LUMFZj+BhqBC0Ea0Stt7/1rsRLMRXRtaeVOEHw==",
-      "cpu": [
-        "arm64"
-      ],
-      "optional": true,
-      "os": [
-        "linux"
-      ]
-    },
-    "node_modules/@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu": {
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu/-/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu-0.3.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-BEDIJ6ReGAi+tLTS/RzxIw621yo1UUUiVNTzPGV2didyiJCr1chIGbES+39d/wiFQM43Xs3CBZLNzp+jKkv0/w==",
-      "cpu": [
-        "x64"
-      ],
-      "optional": true,
-      "os": [
-        "linux"
-      ]
-    },
-    "node_modules/@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc": {
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc/-/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc-0.3.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-7K2kbWbShuifQF/6L/tWSz2DhKfIreHKlBdVOuBTYYOReQMHn5cJxgwuFgQHqMubZ9zcagtHpmo+Wtqd034OKQ==",
-      "cpu": [
-        "x64"
-      ],
-      "optional": true,
-      "os": [
-        "win32"
-      ]
-    },
     "node_modules/@neon-rs/cli": {
       "version": "0.0.160",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@neon-rs/cli/-/cli-0.0.160.tgz",
@@ -4868,36 +4808,6 @@
         "@jridgewell/sourcemap-codec": "^1.4.10"
       }
     },
-    "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64": {
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64/-/vectordb-darwin-arm64-0.3.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-Fg+k/cSnqmNQlSWyDp0PpaAJ67kAISfZAD+zZ3mcE8/3ml2I/wM/GVjPy2zeiQX9aR93lG1mZXFSNTDUc74tWQ==",
-      "optional": true
-    },
-    "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64": {
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64/-/vectordb-darwin-x64-0.3.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-CXp4b/brMbnBPZuGzKIOskd9uD90R73rWubaJ0du/Kt6fcyQX1dM1wEhWTLxI6eKf8IDL/R9QLL2cIahm1J86w==",
-      "optional": true
-    },
-    "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu": {
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu/-/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu-0.3.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-1bjaRzYcDsWIRUbO2K/f+ohNmNvCgKcrrOhmiXSHVlYY8kH1LUMFZj+BhqBC0Ea0Stt7/1rsRLMRXRtaeVOEHw==",
-      "optional": true
-    },
-    "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu": {
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu/-/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu-0.3.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-BEDIJ6ReGAi+tLTS/RzxIw621yo1UUUiVNTzPGV2didyiJCr1chIGbES+39d/wiFQM43Xs3CBZLNzp+jKkv0/w==",
-      "optional": true
-    },
-    "@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc": {
-      "version": "0.3.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc/-/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc-0.3.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-7K2kbWbShuifQF/6L/tWSz2DhKfIreHKlBdVOuBTYYOReQMHn5cJxgwuFgQHqMubZ9zcagtHpmo+Wtqd034OKQ==",
-      "optional": true
-    },
     "@neon-rs/cli": {
       "version": "0.0.160",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@neon-rs/cli/-/cli-0.0.160.tgz",

node/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "vectordb",
-  "version": "0.3.0",
+  "version": "0.3.11",
   "description": " Serverless, low-latency vector database for AI applications",
   "main": "dist/index.js",
   "types": "dist/index.d.ts",
@@ -81,10 +81,10 @@
     }
   },
   "optionalDependencies": {
-    "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64": "0.3.0",
-    "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64": "0.3.0",
-    "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu": "0.3.0",
-    "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu": "0.3.0",
-    "@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc": "0.3.0"
+    "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-arm64": "0.3.11",
+    "@lancedb/vectordb-darwin-x64": "0.3.11",
+    "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-arm64-gnu": "0.3.11",
+    "@lancedb/vectordb-linux-x64-gnu": "0.3.11",
+    "@lancedb/vectordb-win32-x64-msvc": "0.3.11"
   }
 }

node/src/arrow.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import {
   Utf8,
   type Vector,
   FixedSizeList,
-  vectorFromArray, type Schema, Table as ArrowTable
+  vectorFromArray, type Schema, Table as ArrowTable, RecordBatchStreamWriter
 } from 'apache-arrow'
 import { type EmbeddingFunction } from './index'
 
@@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ function newVectorBuilder (dim: number): FixedSizeListBuilder<Float32> {
 
 // Creates the Arrow Type for a Vector column with dimension `dim`
 function newVectorType (dim: number): FixedSizeList<Float32> {
-  const children = new Field<Float32>('item', new Float32())
+  // Somewhere we always default to have the elements nullable, so we need to set it to true
+  // otherwise we often get schema mismatches because the stored data always has schema with nullable elements
+  const children = new Field<Float32>('item', new Float32(), true)
   return new FixedSizeList(dim, children)
 }
 
@@ -88,6 +90,13 @@ export async function fromRecordsToBuffer<T> (data: Array<Record<string, unknown
   return Buffer.from(await writer.toUint8Array())
 }
 
+// Converts an Array of records into Arrow IPC stream format
+export async function fromRecordsToStreamBuffer<T> (data: Array<Record<string, unknown>>, embeddings?: EmbeddingFunction<T>): Promise<Buffer> {
+  const table = await convertToTable(data, embeddings)
+  const writer = RecordBatchStreamWriter.writeAll(table)
+  return Buffer.from(await writer.toUint8Array())
+}
+
 // Converts an Arrow Table into Arrow IPC format
 export async function fromTableToBuffer<T> (table: ArrowTable, embeddings?: EmbeddingFunction<T>): Promise<Buffer> {
   if (embeddings !== undefined) {
@@ -105,6 +114,23 @@ export async function fromTableToBuffer<T> (table: ArrowTable, embeddings?: Embe
   return Buffer.from(await writer.toUint8Array())
 }
 
+// Converts an Arrow Table into Arrow IPC stream format
+export async function fromTableToStreamBuffer<T> (table: ArrowTable, embeddings?: EmbeddingFunction<T>): Promise<Buffer> {
+  if (embeddings !== undefined) {
+    const source = table.getChild(embeddings.sourceColumn)
+
+    if (source === null) {
+      throw new Error(`The embedding source column ${embeddings.sourceColumn} was not found in the Arrow Table`)
+    }
+
+    const vectors = await embeddings.embed(source.toArray() as T[])
+    const column = vectorFromArray(vectors, newVectorType(vectors[0].length))
+    table = table.assign(new ArrowTable({ vector: column }))
+  }
+  const writer = RecordBatchStreamWriter.writeAll(table)
+  return Buffer.from(await writer.toUint8Array())
+}
+
 // Creates an empty Arrow Table
 export function createEmptyTable (schema: Schema): ArrowTable {
   return new ArrowTable(schema)

node/src/index.ts

@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ import type { EmbeddingFunction } from './embedding/embedding_function'
 import { RemoteConnection } from './remote'
 import { Query } from './query'
 import { isEmbeddingFunction } from './embedding/embedding_function'
+import { type Literal, toSQL } from './util'
 
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
-const { databaseNew, databaseTableNames, databaseOpenTable, databaseDropTable, tableCreate, tableAdd, tableCreateVectorIndex, tableCountRows, tableDelete } = require('../native.js')
+const { databaseNew, databaseTableNames, databaseOpenTable, databaseDropTable, tableCreate, tableAdd, tableCreateVectorIndex, tableCountRows, tableDelete, tableUpdate, tableCleanupOldVersions, tableCompactFiles, tableListIndices, tableIndexStats } = require('../native.js')
 
 export { Query }
 export type { EmbeddingFunction }
@@ -260,6 +261,88 @@ export interface Table<T = number[]> {
    * ```
    */
   delete: (filter: string) => Promise<void>
+
+  /**
+   * Update rows in this table.
+   *
+   * This can be used to update a single row, many rows, all rows, or
+   * sometimes no rows (if your predicate matches nothing).
+   *
+   * @param args see {@link UpdateArgs} and {@link UpdateSqlArgs} for more details
+   *
+   * @examples
+   *
+   * ```ts
+   * const con = await lancedb.connect("./.lancedb")
+   * const data = [
+   *    {id: 1, vector: [3, 3], name: 'Ye'},
+   *    {id: 2, vector: [4, 4], name: 'Mike'},
+   * ];
+   * const tbl = await con.createTable("my_table", data)
+   *
+   * await tbl.update({
+   *   filter: "id = 2",
+   *   updates: { vector: [2, 2], name: "Michael" },
+   * })
+   *
+   * let results = await tbl.search([1, 1]).execute();
+   * // Returns [
+   * //   {id: 2, vector: [2, 2], name: 'Michael'}
+   * //   {id: 1, vector: [3, 3], name: 'Ye'}
+   * // ]
+   * ```
+   *
+   */
+  update: (args: UpdateArgs | UpdateSqlArgs) => Promise<void>
+
+  /**
+   * List the indicies on this table.
+   */
+  listIndices: () => Promise<VectorIndex[]>
+
+  /**
+   * Get statistics about an index.
+   */
+  indexStats: (indexUuid: string) => Promise<IndexStats>
+}
+
+export interface UpdateArgs {
+  /**
+   * A filter in the same format used by a sql WHERE clause. The filter may be empty,
+   * in which case all rows will be updated.
+   */
+  where?: string
+
+  /**
+   * A key-value map of updates. The keys are the column names, and the values are the
+   * new values to set
+   */
+  values: Record<string, Literal>
+}
+
+export interface UpdateSqlArgs {
+  /**
+   * A filter in the same format used by a sql WHERE clause. The filter may be empty,
+   * in which case all rows will be updated.
+   */
+  where?: string
+
+  /**
+   * A key-value map of updates. The keys are the column names, and the values are the
+   * new values to set as SQL expressions.
+   */
+  valuesSql: Record<string, string>
+}
+
+export interface VectorIndex {
+  columns: string[]
+  name: string
+  uuid: string
+}
+
+export interface IndexStats {
+  numIndexedRows: number | null
+  numUnindexedRows: number | null
 }
 
 /**
@@ -405,6 +488,16 @@ export class LocalTable<T = number[]> implements Table<T> {
     return new Query(query, this._tbl, this._embeddings)
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Creates a filter query to find all rows matching the specified criteria
+   * @param value The filter criteria (like SQL where clause syntax)
+   */
+  filter (value: string): Query<T> {
+    return new Query(undefined, this._tbl, this._embeddings).filter(value)
+  }
+
+  where = this.filter
+
   /**
    * Insert records into this Table.
    *
@@ -459,6 +552,144 @@ export class LocalTable<T = number[]> implements Table<T> {
   async delete (filter: string): Promise<void> {
     return tableDelete.call(this._tbl, filter).then((newTable: any) => { this._tbl = newTable })
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Update rows in this table.
+   *
+   * @param args see {@link UpdateArgs} and {@link UpdateSqlArgs} for more details
+   *
+   * @returns
+   */
+  async update (args: UpdateArgs | UpdateSqlArgs): Promise<void> {
+    let filter: string | null
+    let updates: Record<string, string>
+
+    if ('valuesSql' in args) {
+      filter = args.where ?? null
+      updates = args.valuesSql
+    } else {
+      filter = args.where ?? null
+      updates = {}
+      for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(args.values)) {
+        updates[key] = toSQL(value)
+      }
+    }
+
+    return tableUpdate.call(this._tbl, filter, updates).then((newTable: any) => { this._tbl = newTable })
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Clean up old versions of the table, freeing disk space.
+   *
+   * @param olderThan The minimum age in minutes of the versions to delete. If not
+   *                  provided, defaults to two weeks.
+   * @param deleteUnverified Because they may be part of an in-progress
+   *                  transaction, uncommitted files newer than 7 days old are
+   *                  not deleted by default. This means that failed transactions
+   *                  can leave around data that takes up disk space for up to
+   *                  7 days. You can override this safety mechanism by setting
+   *                 this option to `true`, only if you promise there are no
+   *                 in progress writes while you run this operation. Failure to
+   *                 uphold this promise can lead to corrupted tables.
+   * @returns
+   */
+  async cleanupOldVersions (olderThan?: number, deleteUnverified?: boolean): Promise<CleanupStats> {
+    return tableCleanupOldVersions.call(this._tbl, olderThan, deleteUnverified)
+      .then((res: { newTable: any, metrics: CleanupStats }) => {
+        this._tbl = res.newTable
+        return res.metrics
+      })
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Run the compaction process on the table.
+   *
+   * This can be run after making several small appends to optimize the table
+   * for faster reads.
+   *
+   * @param options Advanced options configuring compaction. In most cases, you
+   *               can omit this arguments, as the default options are sensible
+   *               for most tables.
+   * @returns Metrics about the compaction operation.
+   */
+  async compactFiles (options?: CompactionOptions): Promise<CompactionMetrics> {
+    const optionsArg = options ?? {}
+    return tableCompactFiles.call(this._tbl, optionsArg)
+      .then((res: { newTable: any, metrics: CompactionMetrics }) => {
+        this._tbl = res.newTable
+        return res.metrics
+      })
+  }
+
+  async listIndices (): Promise<VectorIndex[]> {
+    return tableListIndices.call(this._tbl)
+  }
+
+  async indexStats (indexUuid: string): Promise<IndexStats> {
+    return tableIndexStats.call(this._tbl, indexUuid)
+  }
+}
+
+export interface CleanupStats {
+  /**
+   * The number of bytes removed from disk.
+   */
+  bytesRemoved: number
+  /**
+   * The number of old table versions removed.
+   */
+  oldVersions: number
+}
+
+export interface CompactionOptions {
+  /**
+   * The number of rows per fragment to target. Fragments that have fewer rows
+   * will be compacted into adjacent fragments to produce larger fragments.
+   * Defaults to 1024 * 1024.
+   */
+  targetRowsPerFragment?: number
+  /**
+   * The maximum number of rows per group. Defaults to 1024.
+   */
+  maxRowsPerGroup?: number
+  /**
+   * If true, fragments that have rows that are deleted may be compacted to
+   * remove the deleted rows. This can improve the performance of queries.
+   * Default is true.
+   */
+  materializeDeletions?: boolean
+  /**
+   * A number between 0 and 1, representing the proportion of rows that must be
+   * marked deleted before a fragment is a candidate for compaction to remove
+   * the deleted rows. Default is 10%.
+   */
+  materializeDeletionsThreshold?: number
+  /**
+   * The number of threads to use for compaction. If not provided, defaults to
+   * the number of cores on the machine.
+   */
+  numThreads?: number
+}
+
+export interface CompactionMetrics {
+  /**
+   * The number of fragments that were removed.
+   */
+  fragmentsRemoved: number
+  /**
+   * The number of new fragments that were created.
+   */
+  fragmentsAdded: number
+  /**
+   * The number of files that were removed. Each fragment may have more than one
+   * file.
+   */
+  filesRemoved: number
+  /**
+   * The number of files added. This is typically equal to the number of
+   * fragments added.
+   */
+  filesAdded: number
 }
 
 /// Config to build IVF_PQ index.

node/src/integration_test/test.ts

@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ describe('LanceDB Mirrored Store Integration test', function () {
     const mirroredPath = path.join(dir, `${tableName}.lance`)
     fs.readdir(mirroredPath, { withFileTypes: true }, (err, files) => {
       if (err != null) throw err
-      // there should be two dirs
-      assert.equal(files.length, 2)
+      // there should be three dirs
+      assert.equal(files.length, 3)
       assert.isTrue(files[0].isDirectory())
       assert.isTrue(files[1].isDirectory())
 
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ describe('LanceDB Mirrored Store Integration test', function () {
         assert.isTrue(files[0].name.endsWith('.txn'))
       })
 
+      fs.readdir(path.join(mirroredPath, '_versions'), { withFileTypes: true }, (err, files) => {
+        if (err != null) throw err
+        assert.equal(files.length, 1)
+        assert.isTrue(files[0].name.endsWith('.manifest'))
+      })
+
       fs.readdir(path.join(mirroredPath, 'data'), { withFileTypes: true }, (err, files) => {
         if (err != null) throw err
         assert.equal(files.length, 1)
@@ -88,8 +94,8 @@ describe('LanceDB Mirrored Store Integration test', function () {
 
     fs.readdir(mirroredPath, { withFileTypes: true }, (err, files) => {
       if (err != null) throw err
-      // there should be two dirs
-      assert.equal(files.length, 3)
+      // there should be four dirs
+      assert.equal(files.length, 4)
       assert.isTrue(files[0].isDirectory())
       assert.isTrue(files[1].isDirectory())
       assert.isTrue(files[2].isDirectory())
@@ -128,12 +134,13 @@ describe('LanceDB Mirrored Store Integration test', function () {
 
     fs.readdir(mirroredPath, { withFileTypes: true }, (err, files) => {
       if (err != null) throw err
-      // there should be two dirs
-      assert.equal(files.length, 4)
+      // there should be five dirs
+      assert.equal(files.length, 5)
       assert.isTrue(files[0].isDirectory())
       assert.isTrue(files[1].isDirectory())
       assert.isTrue(files[2].isDirectory())
       assert.isTrue(files[3].isDirectory())
+      assert.isTrue(files[4].isDirectory())
 
       // Three TXs now
       fs.readdir(path.join(mirroredPath, '_transactions'), { withFileTypes: true }, (err, files) => {

node/src/query.ts

@@ -23,27 +23,29 @@ const { tableSearch } = require('../native.js')
  * A builder for nearest neighbor queries for LanceDB.
  */
 export class Query<T = number[]> {
-  private readonly _query: T
+  private readonly _query?: T
   private readonly _tbl?: any
   private _queryVector?: number[]
-  private _limit: number
+  private _limit?: number
   private _refineFactor?: number
   private _nprobes: number
   private _select?: string[]
   private _filter?: string
   private _metricType?: MetricType
+  private _prefilter: boolean
   protected readonly _embeddings?: EmbeddingFunction<T>
 
-  constructor (query: T, tbl?: any, embeddings?: EmbeddingFunction<T>) {
+  constructor (query?: T, tbl?: any, embeddings?: EmbeddingFunction<T>) {
     this._tbl = tbl
     this._query = query
-    this._limit = 10
+    this._limit = undefined
     this._nprobes = 20
     this._refineFactor = undefined
     this._select = undefined
     this._filter = undefined
     this._metricType = undefined
     this._embeddings = embeddings
+    this._prefilter = false
   }
 
   /***
@@ -102,15 +104,22 @@ export class Query<T = number[]> {
     return this
   }
 
+  prefilter (value: boolean): Query<T> {
+    this._prefilter = value
+    return this
+  }
+
   /**
      * Execute the query and return the results as an Array of Objects
      */
   async execute<T = Record<string, unknown>> (): Promise<T[]> {
+    if (this._query !== undefined) {
       if (this._embeddings !== undefined) {
         this._queryVector = (await this._embeddings.embed([this._query]))[0]
       } else {
         this._queryVector = this._query as number[]
       }
+    }
 
     const isElectron = this.isElectron()
     const buffer = await tableSearch.call(this._tbl, this, isElectron)

node/src/remote/client.ts

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ export class HttpLancedbClient {
     vector: number[],
     k: number,
     nprobes: number,
+    prefilter: boolean,
     refineFactor?: number,
     columns?: string[],
     filter?: string
@@ -50,7 +51,8 @@ export class HttpLancedbClient {
                 nprobes,
                 refineFactor,
                 columns,
-                filter
+                filter,
+                prefilter
               },
               {
                 headers: {
@@ -63,6 +65,9 @@ export class HttpLancedbClient {
               }
     ).catch((err) => {
       console.error('error: ', err)
+      if (err.response === undefined) {
+        throw new Error(`Network Error: ${err.message as string}`)
+      }
       return err.response
     })
     if (response.status !== 200) {
@@ -86,13 +91,17 @@ export class HttpLancedbClient {
       {
         headers: {
           'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-          'x-api-key': this._apiKey()
+          'x-api-key': this._apiKey(),
+          ...(this._dbName !== undefined ? { 'x-lancedb-database': this._dbName } : {})
         },
         params,
         timeout: 10000
       }
     ).catch((err) => {
       console.error('error: ', err)
+      if (err.response === undefined) {
+        throw new Error(`Network Error: ${err.message as string}`)
+      }
       return err.response
     })
     if (response.status !== 200) {
@@ -108,13 +117,18 @@ export class HttpLancedbClient {
   /**
    * Sent POST request.
    */
-  public async post (path: string, data?: any, params?: Record<string, string | number>): Promise<AxiosResponse> {
+  public async post (
+    path: string,
+    data?: any,
+    params?: Record<string, string | number>,
+    content?: string | undefined
+  ): Promise<AxiosResponse> {
     const response = await axios.post(
         `${this._url}${path}`,
         data,
         {
           headers: {
-            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+            'Content-Type': content ?? 'application/json',
             'x-api-key': this._apiKey(),
             ...(this._dbName !== undefined ? { 'x-lancedb-database': this._dbName } : {})
           },
@@ -123,6 +137,9 @@ export class HttpLancedbClient {
         }
     ).catch((err) => {
       console.error('error: ', err)
+      if (err.response === undefined) {
+        throw new Error(`Network Error: ${err.message as string}`)
+      }
       return err.response
     })
     if (response.status !== 200) {

node/src/remote/index.ts

@@ -14,12 +14,18 @@
 
 import {
   type EmbeddingFunction, type Table, type VectorIndexParams, type Connection,
-  type ConnectionOptions, type CreateTableOptions, type WriteOptions
+  type ConnectionOptions, type CreateTableOptions, type VectorIndex,
+  type WriteOptions,
+  type IndexStats,
+  type UpdateArgs, type UpdateSqlArgs
 } from '../index'
 import { Query } from '../query'
 
-import { Vector } from 'apache-arrow'
+import { Vector, Table as ArrowTable } from 'apache-arrow'
 import { HttpLancedbClient } from './client'
+import { isEmbeddingFunction } from '../embedding/embedding_function'
+import { createEmptyTable, fromRecordsToStreamBuffer, fromTableToStreamBuffer } from '../arrow'
+import { toSQL } from '../util'
 
 /**
  * Remote connection.
@@ -66,8 +72,60 @@ export class RemoteConnection implements Connection {
     }
   }
 
-  async createTable<T> (name: string | CreateTableOptions<T>, data?: Array<Record<string, unknown>>, optsOrEmbedding?: WriteOptions | EmbeddingFunction<T>, opt?: WriteOptions): Promise<Table<T>> {
-    throw new Error('Not implemented')
+  async createTable<T> (nameOrOpts: string | CreateTableOptions<T>, data?: Array<Record<string, unknown>>, optsOrEmbedding?: WriteOptions | EmbeddingFunction<T>, opt?: WriteOptions): Promise<Table<T>> {
+    // Logic copied from LocatlConnection, refactor these to a base class + connectionImpl pattern
+    let schema
+    let embeddings: undefined | EmbeddingFunction<T>
+    let tableName: string
+    if (typeof nameOrOpts === 'string') {
+      if (optsOrEmbedding !== undefined && isEmbeddingFunction(optsOrEmbedding)) {
+        embeddings = optsOrEmbedding
+      }
+      tableName = nameOrOpts
+    } else {
+      schema = nameOrOpts.schema
+      embeddings = nameOrOpts.embeddingFunction
+      tableName = nameOrOpts.name
+    }
+
+    let buffer: Buffer
+
+    function isEmpty (data: Array<Record<string, unknown>> | ArrowTable<any>): boolean {
+      if (data instanceof ArrowTable) {
+        return data.data.length === 0
+      }
+      return data.length === 0
+    }
+
+    if ((data === undefined) || isEmpty(data)) {
+      if (schema === undefined) {
+        throw new Error('Either data or schema needs to defined')
+      }
+      buffer = await fromTableToStreamBuffer(createEmptyTable(schema))
+    } else if (data instanceof ArrowTable) {
+      buffer = await fromTableToStreamBuffer(data, embeddings)
+    } else {
+      // data is Array<Record<...>>
+      buffer = await fromRecordsToStreamBuffer(data, embeddings)
+    }
+
+    const res = await this._client.post(
+      `/v1/table/${tableName}/create/`,
+      buffer,
+      undefined,
+      'application/vnd.apache.arrow.stream'
+    )
+    if (res.status !== 200) {
+      throw new Error(`Server Error, status: ${res.status}, ` +
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/restrict-template-expressions
+        `message: ${res.statusText}: ${res.data}`)
+    }
+
+    if (embeddings === undefined) {
+      return new RemoteTable(this._client, tableName)
+    } else {
+      return new RemoteTable(this._client, tableName, embeddings)
+    }
   }
 
   async dropTable (name: string): Promise<void> {
@@ -98,6 +156,7 @@ export class RemoteQuery<T = number[]> extends Query<T> {
       queryVector,
       (this as any)._limit,
       (this as any)._nprobes,
+      (this as any)._prefilter,
       (this as any)._refineFactor,
       (this as any)._select,
       (this as any)._filter
@@ -141,11 +200,39 @@ export class RemoteTable<T = number[]> implements Table<T> {
   }
 
   async add (data: Array<Record<string, unknown>>): Promise<number> {
-    throw new Error('Not implemented')
+    const buffer = await fromRecordsToStreamBuffer(data, this._embeddings)
+    const res = await this._client.post(
+      `/v1/table/${this._name}/insert/`,
+      buffer,
+      {
+        mode: 'append'
+      },
+      'application/vnd.apache.arrow.stream'
+    )
+    if (res.status !== 200) {
+      throw new Error(`Server Error, status: ${res.status}, ` +
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/restrict-template-expressions
+        `message: ${res.statusText}: ${res.data}`)
+    }
+    return data.length
   }
 
   async overwrite (data: Array<Record<string, unknown>>): Promise<number> {
-    throw new Error('Not implemented')
+    const buffer = await fromRecordsToStreamBuffer(data, this._embeddings)
+    const res = await this._client.post(
+      `/v1/table/${this._name}/insert/`,
+      buffer,
+      {
+        mode: 'overwrite'
+      },
+      'application/vnd.apache.arrow.stream'
+    )
+    if (res.status !== 200) {
+      throw new Error(`Server Error, status: ${res.status}, ` +
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/restrict-template-expressions
+        `message: ${res.statusText}: ${res.data}`)
+    }
+    return data.length
   }
 
   async createIndex (indexParams: VectorIndexParams): Promise<any> {
@@ -153,10 +240,48 @@ export class RemoteTable<T = number[]> implements Table<T> {
   }
 
   async countRows (): Promise<number> {
-    throw new Error('Not implemented')
+    const result = await this._client.post(`/v1/table/${this._name}/describe/`)
+    return result.data?.stats?.num_rows
   }
 
   async delete (filter: string): Promise<void> {
-    throw new Error('Not implemented')
+    await this._client.post(`/v1/table/${this._name}/delete/`, { predicate: filter })
+  }
+
+  async update (args: UpdateArgs | UpdateSqlArgs): Promise<void> {
+    let filter: string | null
+    let updates: Record<string, string>
+
+    if ('valuesSql' in args) {
+      filter = args.where ?? null
+      updates = args.valuesSql
+    } else {
+      filter = args.where ?? null
+      updates = {}
+      for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(args.values)) {
+        updates[key] = toSQL(value)
+      }
+    }
+    await this._client.post(`/v1/table/${this._name}/update/`, {
+      predicate: filter,
+      updates: Object.entries(updates).map(([key, value]) => [key, value])
+    })
+  }
+
+  async listIndices (): Promise<VectorIndex[]> {
+    const results = await this._client.post(`/v1/table/${this._name}/index/list/`)
+    return results.data.indexes?.map((index: any) => ({
+      columns: index.columns,
+      name: index.index_name,
+      uuid: index.index_uuid
+    }))
+  }
+
+  async indexStats (indexUuid: string): Promise<IndexStats> {
+    const results = await this._client.post(`/v1/table/${this._name}/index/${indexUuid}/stats/`)
+    return {
+      numIndexedRows: results.data.num_indexed_rows,
+      numUnindexedRows: results.data.num_unindexed_rows
+    }
   }
 }

node/src/test/test.ts

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import * as chai from 'chai'
 import * as chaiAsPromised from 'chai-as-promised'
 
 import * as lancedb from '../index'
-import { type AwsCredentials, type EmbeddingFunction, MetricType, Query, WriteMode, DefaultWriteOptions, isWriteOptions } from '../index'
+import { type AwsCredentials, type EmbeddingFunction, MetricType, Query, WriteMode, DefaultWriteOptions, isWriteOptions, type LocalTable } from '../index'
 import { FixedSizeList, Field, Int32, makeVector, Schema, Utf8, Table as ArrowTable, vectorFromArray, Float32 } from 'apache-arrow'
 
 const expect = chai.expect
@@ -78,12 +78,31 @@ describe('LanceDB client', function () {
     })
 
     it('limits # of results', async function () {
-      const uri = await createTestDB()
+      const uri = await createTestDB(2, 100)
       const con = await lancedb.connect(uri)
       const table = await con.openTable('vectors')
-      const results = await table.search([0.1, 0.3]).limit(1).execute()
+      let results = await table.search([0.1, 0.3]).limit(1).execute()
       assert.equal(results.length, 1)
       assert.equal(results[0].id, 1)
+
+      // there is a default limit if unspecified
+      results = await table.search([0.1, 0.3]).execute()
+      assert.equal(results.length, 10)
+    })
+
+    it('uses a filter / where clause without vector search', async function () {
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/explicit-function-return-type
+      const assertResults = (results: Array<Record<string, unknown>>) => {
+        assert.equal(results.length, 50)
+      }
+
+      const uri = await createTestDB(2, 100)
+      const con = await lancedb.connect(uri)
+      const table = (await con.openTable('vectors')) as LocalTable
+      let results = await table.filter('id % 2 = 0').execute()
+      assertResults(results)
+      results = await table.where('id % 2 = 0').execute()
+      assertResults(results)
     })
 
     it('uses a filter / where clause', async function () {
@@ -102,6 +121,20 @@ describe('LanceDB client', function () {
       assertResults(results)
     })
 
+    it('should correctly process prefilter/postfilter', async function () {
+      const uri = await createTestDB(16, 300)
+      const con = await lancedb.connect(uri)
+      const table = await con.openTable('vectors')
+      await table.createIndex({ type: 'ivf_pq', column: 'vector', num_partitions: 2, max_iters: 2, num_sub_vectors: 2 })
+      // post filter should return less than the limit
+      let results = await table.search(new Array(16).fill(0.1)).limit(10).filter('id >= 10').prefilter(false).execute()
+      assert.isTrue(results.length < 10)
+
+      // pre filter should return exactly the limit
+      results = await table.search(new Array(16).fill(0.1)).limit(10).filter('id >= 10').prefilter(true).execute()
+      assert.isTrue(results.length === 10)
+    })
+
     it('select only a subset of columns', async function () {
       const uri = await createTestDB()
       const con = await lancedb.connect(uri)
@@ -246,6 +279,46 @@ describe('LanceDB client', function () {
       assert.equal(await table.countRows(), 2)
     })
 
+    it('can update records in the table', async function () {
+      const uri = await createTestDB()
+      const con = await lancedb.connect(uri)
+
+      const table = await con.openTable('vectors')
+      assert.equal(await table.countRows(), 2)
+
+      await table.update({ where: 'price = 10', valuesSql: { price: '100' } })
+      const results = await table.search([0.1, 0.2]).execute()
+      assert.equal(results[0].price, 100)
+      assert.equal(results[1].price, 11)
+    })
+
+    it('can update the records using a literal value', async function () {
+      const uri = await createTestDB()
+      const con = await lancedb.connect(uri)
+
+      const table = await con.openTable('vectors')
+      assert.equal(await table.countRows(), 2)
+
+      await table.update({ where: 'price = 10', values: { price: 100 } })
+      const results = await table.search([0.1, 0.2]).execute()
+      assert.equal(results[0].price, 100)
+      assert.equal(results[1].price, 11)
+    })
+
+    it('can update every record in the table', async function () {
+      const uri = await createTestDB()
+      const con = await lancedb.connect(uri)
+
+      const table = await con.openTable('vectors')
+      assert.equal(await table.countRows(), 2)
+
+      await table.update({ valuesSql: { price: '100' } })
+      const results = await table.search([0.1, 0.2]).execute()
+
+      assert.equal(results[0].price, 100)
+      assert.equal(results[1].price, 100)
+    })
+
     it('can delete records from a table', async function () {
       const uri = await createTestDB()
       const con = await lancedb.connect(uri)
@@ -282,7 +355,8 @@ describe('LanceDB client', function () {
       )
       const table = await con.createTable({ name: 'vectors', schema })
       await table.add([{ vector: Array(128).fill(0.1) }])
-      await table.delete('vector IS NOT NULL')
+      // https://github.com/lancedb/lance/issues/1635
+      await table.delete('true')
       const result = await table.search(Array(128).fill(0.1)).execute()
       assert.isEmpty(result)
     })
@@ -328,6 +402,24 @@ describe('LanceDB client', function () {
       const createIndex = table.createIndex({ type: 'ivf_pq', column: 'name', num_partitions: -1, max_iters: 2, num_sub_vectors: 2 })
       await expect(createIndex).to.be.rejectedWith('num_partitions: must be > 0')
     })
+
+    it('should be able to list index and stats', async function () {
+      const uri = await createTestDB(32, 300)
+      const con = await lancedb.connect(uri)
+      const table = await con.openTable('vectors')
+      await table.createIndex({ type: 'ivf_pq', column: 'vector', num_partitions: 2, max_iters: 2, num_sub_vectors: 2 })
+
+      const indices = await table.listIndices()
+      expect(indices).to.have.lengthOf(1)
+      expect(indices[0].name).to.equal('vector_idx')
+      expect(indices[0].uuid).to.not.be.equal(undefined)
+      expect(indices[0].columns).to.have.lengthOf(1)
+      expect(indices[0].columns[0]).to.equal('vector')
+
+      const stats = await table.indexStats(indices[0].uuid)
+      expect(stats.numIndexedRows).to.equal(300)
+      expect(stats.numUnindexedRows).to.equal(0)
+    }).timeout(50_000)
   })
 
   describe('when using a custom embedding function', function () {
@@ -378,6 +470,40 @@ describe('LanceDB client', function () {
   })
 })
 
+describe('Remote LanceDB client', function () {
+  describe('when the server is not reachable', function () {
+    it('produces a network error', async function () {
+      const con = await lancedb.connect({
+        uri: 'db://test-1234',
+        region: 'asdfasfasfdf',
+        apiKey: 'some-api-key'
+      })
+
+      // GET
+      try {
+        await con.tableNames()
+      } catch (err) {
+        expect(err).to.have.property('message', 'Network Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND test-1234.asdfasfasfdf.api.lancedb.com')
+      }
+
+      // POST
+      try {
+        await con.createTable({ name: 'vectors', schema: new Schema([]) })
+      } catch (err) {
+        expect(err).to.have.property('message', 'Network Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND test-1234.asdfasfasfdf.api.lancedb.com')
+      }
+
+      // Search
+      const table = await con.openTable('vectors')
+      try {
+        await table.search([0.1, 0.3]).execute()
+      } catch (err) {
+        expect(err).to.have.property('message', 'Network Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND test-1234.asdfasfasfdf.api.lancedb.com')
+      }
+    })
+  })
+})
+
 describe('Query object', function () {
   it('sets custom parameters', async function () {
     const query = new Query([0.1, 0.3])
@@ -446,3 +572,45 @@ describe('WriteOptions', function () {
     })
   })
 })
+
+describe('Compact and cleanup', function () {
+  it('can cleanup after compaction', async function () {
+    const dir = await track().mkdir('lancejs')
+    const con = await lancedb.connect(dir)
+
+    const data = [
+      { price: 10, name: 'foo', vector: [1, 2, 3] },
+      { price: 50, name: 'bar', vector: [4, 5, 6] }
+    ]
+    const table = await con.createTable('t1', data) as LocalTable
+
+    const newData = [
+      { price: 30, name: 'baz', vector: [7, 8, 9] }
+    ]
+    await table.add(newData)
+
+    const compactionMetrics = await table.compactFiles({
+      numThreads: 2
+    })
+    assert.equal(compactionMetrics.fragmentsRemoved, 2)
+    assert.equal(compactionMetrics.fragmentsAdded, 1)
+    assert.equal(await table.countRows(), 3)
+
+    await table.cleanupOldVersions()
+    assert.equal(await table.countRows(), 3)
+
+    // should have no effect, but this validates the arguments are parsed.
+    await table.compactFiles({
+      targetRowsPerFragment: 102410,
+      maxRowsPerGroup: 1024,
+      materializeDeletions: true,
+      materializeDeletionsThreshold: 0.5,
+      numThreads: 2
+    })
+
+    const cleanupMetrics = await table.cleanupOldVersions(0, true)
+    assert.isAtLeast(cleanupMetrics.bytesRemoved, 1)
+    assert.isAtLeast(cleanupMetrics.oldVersions, 1)
+    assert.equal(await table.countRows(), 3)
+  })
+})

node/src/test/util.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+// Copyright 2023 LanceDB Developers.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+import { toSQL } from '../util'
+import * as chai from 'chai'
+
+const expect = chai.expect
+
+describe('toSQL', function () {
+  it('should turn string to SQL expression', function () {
+    expect(toSQL('foo')).to.equal("'foo'")
+  })
+
+  it('should turn number to SQL expression', function () {
+    expect(toSQL(123)).to.equal('123')
+  })
+
+  it('should turn boolean to SQL expression', function () {
+    expect(toSQL(true)).to.equal('TRUE')
+  })
+
+  it('should turn null to SQL expression', function () {
+    expect(toSQL(null)).to.equal('NULL')
+  })
+
+  it('should turn Date to SQL expression', function () {
+    const date = new Date('05 October 2011 14:48 UTC')
+    expect(toSQL(date)).to.equal("'2011-10-05T14:48:00.000Z'")
+  })
+
+  it('should turn array to SQL expression', function () {
+    expect(toSQL(['foo', 'bar', true, 1])).to.equal("['foo', 'bar', TRUE, 1]")
+  })
+})

node/src/util.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+// Copyright 2023 LanceDB Developers.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+export type Literal = string | number | boolean | null | Date | Literal[]
+
+export function toSQL (value: Literal): string {
+  if (typeof value === 'string') {
+    return `'${value}'`
+  }
+
+  if (typeof value === 'number') {
+    return value.toString()
+  }
+
+  if (typeof value === 'boolean') {
+    return value ? 'TRUE' : 'FALSE'
+  }
+
+  if (value === null) {
+    return 'NULL'
+  }
+
+  if (value instanceof Date) {
+    return `'${value.toISOString()}'`
+  }
+
+  if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+    return `[${value.map(toSQL).join(', ')}]`
+  }
+
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/restrict-template-expressions
+  throw new Error(`Unsupported value type: ${typeof value} value: (${value})`)
+}

python/.bumpversion.cfg

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.3.0
+current_version = 0.3.6
 commit = True
 message = [python] Bump version: {current_version} → {new_version}
 tag = True

python/LICENSE

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../LICENSE

python/README.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ pip install lancedb
 import lancedb
 db = lancedb.connect('<PATH_TO_LANCEDB_DATASET>')
 table = db.open_table('my_table')
-results = table.search([0.1, 0.3]).limit(20).to_df()
+results = table.search([0.1, 0.3]).limit(20).to_list()
 print(results)
 ```
 

python/lancedb/__init__.py

@@ -14,18 +14,20 @@
 import importlib.metadata
 from typing import Optional
 
-from .db import URI, DBConnection, LanceDBConnection
-from .remote.db import RemoteDBConnection
-from .schema import vector
-
 __version__ = importlib.metadata.version("lancedb")
 
+from .common import URI
+from .db import DBConnection, LanceDBConnection
+from .remote.db import RemoteDBConnection
+from .schema import vector  # noqa: F401
+from .utils import sentry_log  # noqa: F401
+
 
 def connect(
     uri: URI,
     *,
     api_key: Optional[str] = None,
-    region: str = "us-west-2",
+    region: str = "us-east-1",
     host_override: Optional[str] = None,
 ) -> DBConnection:
     """Connect to a LanceDB database.
@@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ def connect(
     api_key: str, optional
         If presented, connect to LanceDB cloud.
         Otherwise, connect to a database on file system or cloud storage.
-    region: str, default "us-west-2"
+    region: str, default "us-east-1"
         The region to use for LanceDB Cloud.
     host_override: str, optional
         The override url for LanceDB Cloud.

python/lancedb/cli/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#  Copyright 2023 LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.

python/lancedb/cli/cli.py

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#  Copyright 2023 LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+
+import click
+
+from lancedb.utils import CONFIG
+
+
+@click.group()
+@click.version_option(help="LanceDB command line interface entry point")
+def cli():
+    "LanceDB command line interface"
+
+
+diagnostics_help = """
+Enable or disable LanceDB diagnostics. When enabled, LanceDB will send anonymous events to help us improve LanceDB.
+These diagnostics are used only for error reporting and no data is collected. You can find more about diagnosis on
+our docs: https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/cli_config/
+"""
+
+
+@cli.command(help=diagnostics_help)
+@click.option("--enabled/--disabled", default=True)
+def diagnostics(enabled):
+    CONFIG.update({"diagnostics": True if enabled else False})
+    click.echo("LanceDB diagnostics is %s" % ("enabled" if enabled else "disabled"))
+
+
+@cli.command(help="Show current LanceDB configuration")
+def config():
+    # TODO: pretty print as table with colors and formatting
+    click.echo("Current LanceDB configuration:")
+    cfg = CONFIG.copy()
+    cfg.pop("uuid")  # Don't show uuid as it is not configurable
+    for item, amount in cfg.items():
+        click.echo("{} ({})".format(item, amount))

python/lancedb/conftest.py

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import os
+import time
+from typing import Any
 
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
@@ -38,3 +40,26 @@ class MockTextEmbeddingFunction(TextEmbeddingFunction):
 
     def ndims(self):
         return 10
+
+
+class RateLimitedAPI:
+    rate_limit = 0.1  # 1 request per 0.1 second
+    last_request_time = 0
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def make_request():
+        current_time = time.time()
+
+        if current_time - RateLimitedAPI.last_request_time < RateLimitedAPI.rate_limit:
+            raise Exception("Rate limit exceeded. Please try again later.")
+
+        # Simulate a successful request
+        RateLimitedAPI.last_request_time = current_time
+        return "Request successful"
+
+
+@registry.register("test-rate-limited")
+class MockRateLimitedEmbeddingFunction(MockTextEmbeddingFunction):
+    def generate_embeddings(self, texts):
+        RateLimitedAPI.make_request()
+        return [self._compute_one_embedding(row) for row in texts]

python/lancedb/context.py

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 #  limitations under the License.
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import deprecation
+
+from . import __version__
 from .exceptions import MissingColumnError, MissingValueError
 from .util import safe_import_pandas
 
@@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ def contextualize(raw_df: "pd.DataFrame") -> Contextualizer:
     this how many tokens, but depending on the input data, it could be sentences,
     paragraphs, messages, etc.
 
-    >>> contextualize(data).window(3).stride(1).text_col('token').to_df()
+    >>> contextualize(data).window(3).stride(1).text_col('token').to_pandas()
                     token  document_id
     0     The quick brown            1
     1     quick brown fox            1
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ def contextualize(raw_df: "pd.DataFrame") -> Contextualizer:
     8          dog I love            1
     9   I love sandwiches            2
     10    love sandwiches            2
-    >>> contextualize(data).window(7).stride(1).min_window_size(7).text_col('token').to_df()
+    >>> contextualize(data).window(7).stride(1).min_window_size(7).text_col('token').to_pandas()
                                       token  document_id
     0   The quick brown fox jumped over the            1
     1  quick brown fox jumped over the lazy            1
@@ -68,7 +71,7 @@ def contextualize(raw_df: "pd.DataFrame") -> Contextualizer:
     ``stride`` determines how many rows to skip between each window start. This can
     be used to reduce the total number of windows generated.
 
-    >>> contextualize(data).window(4).stride(2).text_col('token').to_df()
+    >>> contextualize(data).window(4).stride(2).text_col('token').to_pandas()
                         token  document_id
     0     The quick brown fox            1
     2   brown fox jumped over            1
@@ -81,7 +84,9 @@ def contextualize(raw_df: "pd.DataFrame") -> Contextualizer:
     context windows that don't cross document boundaries. In this case, we can
     pass ``document_id`` as the group by.
 
-    >>> contextualize(data).window(4).stride(2).text_col('token').groupby('document_id').to_df()
+    >>> (contextualize(data)
+    ...     .window(4).stride(2).text_col('token').groupby('document_id')
+    ...     .to_pandas())
                        token  document_id
     0    The quick brown fox            1
     2  brown fox jumped over            1
@@ -89,18 +94,24 @@ def contextualize(raw_df: "pd.DataFrame") -> Contextualizer:
     6           the lazy dog            1
     9      I love sandwiches            2
 
-    ``min_window_size`` determines the minimum size of the  context windows that are generated
-    This can be used to trim the last few context windows which have size less than
-    ``min_window_size``. By default context windows of size 1 are skipped.
+    ``min_window_size`` determines the minimum size of the context windows
+    that are generated.This can be used to trim the last few context windows
+    which have size less than ``min_window_size``.
+    By default context windows of size 1 are skipped.
 
-    >>> contextualize(data).window(6).stride(3).text_col('token').groupby('document_id').to_df()
+    >>> (contextualize(data)
+    ...     .window(6).stride(3).text_col('token').groupby('document_id')
+    ...     .to_pandas())
                                  token  document_id
     0  The quick brown fox jumped over            1
     3     fox jumped over the lazy dog            1
     6                     the lazy dog            1
     9                I love sandwiches            2
 
-    >>> contextualize(data).window(6).stride(3).min_window_size(4).text_col('token').groupby('document_id').to_df()
+    >>> (contextualize(data)
+    ...     .window(6).stride(3).min_window_size(4).text_col('token')
+    ...     .groupby('document_id')
+    ...     .to_pandas())
                                  token  document_id
     0  The quick brown fox jumped over            1
     3     fox jumped over the lazy dog            1
@@ -110,7 +121,9 @@ def contextualize(raw_df: "pd.DataFrame") -> Contextualizer:
 
 
 class Contextualizer:
-    """Create context windows from a DataFrame. See [lancedb.context.contextualize][]."""
+    """Create context windows from a DataFrame.
+    See [lancedb.context.contextualize][].
+    """
 
     def __init__(self, raw_df):
         self._text_col = None
@@ -176,7 +189,16 @@ class Contextualizer:
         self._min_window_size = min_window_size
         return self
 
+    @deprecation.deprecated(
+        deprecated_in="0.3.1",
+        removed_in="0.4.0",
+        current_version=__version__,
+        details="Use to_pandas() instead",
+    )
     def to_df(self) -> "pd.DataFrame":
+        return self.to_pandas()
+
+    def to_pandas(self) -> "pd.DataFrame":
         """Create the context windows and return a DataFrame."""
         if pd is None:
             raise ImportError(

python/lancedb/db.py

@@ -14,26 +14,39 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import os
-from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from abc import abstractmethod
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import List, Optional, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Iterable, List, Optional, Union
 
 import pyarrow as pa
+from overrides import EnforceOverrides, override
 from pyarrow import fs
 
-from .common import DATA, URI
-from .embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionConfig
-from .pydantic import LanceModel
 from .table import LanceTable, Table
 from .util import fs_from_uri, get_uri_location, get_uri_scheme
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .common import DATA, URI
+    from .embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionConfig
+    from .pydantic import LanceModel
 
-class DBConnection(ABC):
+
+class DBConnection(EnforceOverrides):
     """An active LanceDB connection interface."""
 
     @abstractmethod
-    def table_names(self) -> list[str]:
-        """List all table names in the database."""
+    def table_names(
+        self, page_token: Optional[str] = None, limit: int = 10
+    ) -> Iterable[str]:
+        """List all table in this database
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        page_token: str, optional
+            The token to use for pagination. If not present, start from the beginning.
+        limit: int, default 10
+            The size of the page to return.
+        """
         pass
 
     @abstractmethod
@@ -45,6 +58,7 @@ class DBConnection(ABC):
         mode: str = "create",
         on_bad_vectors: str = "error",
         fill_value: float = 0.0,
+        embedding_functions: Optional[List[EmbeddingFunctionConfig]] = None,
     ) -> Table:
         """Create a [Table][lancedb.table.Table] in the database.
 
@@ -52,12 +66,24 @@ class DBConnection(ABC):
         ----------
         name: str
             The name of the table.
-        data: list, tuple, dict, pd.DataFrame; optional
-            The data to initialize the table. User must provide at least one of `data` or `schema`.
-        schema: pyarrow.Schema or LanceModel; optional
-            The schema of the table.
+        data: The data to initialize the table, *optional*
+            User must provide at least one of `data` or `schema`.
+            Acceptable types are:
+
+            - dict or list-of-dict
+
+            - pandas.DataFrame
+
+            - pyarrow.Table or pyarrow.RecordBatch
+        schema: The schema of the table, *optional*
+            Acceptable types are:
+
+            - pyarrow.Schema
+
+            - [LanceModel][lancedb.pydantic.LanceModel]
         mode: str; default "create"
-            The mode to use when creating the table. Can be either "create" or "overwrite".
+            The mode to use when creating the table.
+            Can be either "create" or "overwrite".
             By default, if the table already exists, an exception is raised.
             If you want to overwrite the table, use mode="overwrite".
         on_bad_vectors: str, default "error"
@@ -150,7 +176,8 @@ class DBConnection(ABC):
         ...     for i in range(5):
         ...         yield pa.RecordBatch.from_arrays(
         ...             [
-        ...                 pa.array([[3.1, 4.1], [5.9, 26.5]], pa.list_(pa.float32(), 2)),
+        ...                 pa.array([[3.1, 4.1], [5.9, 26.5]],
+        ...                     pa.list_(pa.float32(), 2)),
         ...                 pa.array(["foo", "bar"]),
         ...                 pa.array([10.0, 20.0]),
         ...             ],
@@ -249,12 +276,15 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
     def uri(self) -> str:
         return self._uri
 
-    def table_names(self) -> list[str]:
-        """Get the names of all tables in the database.
+    @override
+    def table_names(
+        self, page_token: Optional[str] = None, limit: int = 10
+    ) -> Iterable[str]:
+        """Get the names of all tables in the database. The names are sorted.
 
         Returns
         -------
-        list of str
+        Iterator of str.
             A list of table names.
         """
         try:
@@ -274,6 +304,7 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
             for file_info in paths
             if file_info.extension == "lance"
         ]
+        tables.sort()
         return tables
 
     def __len__(self) -> int:
@@ -282,6 +313,7 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
     def __contains__(self, name: str) -> bool:
         return name in self.table_names()
 
+    @override
     def create_table(
         self,
         name: str,
@@ -313,6 +345,7 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
         )
         return tbl
 
+    @override
     def open_table(self, name: str) -> LanceTable:
         """Open a table in the database.
 
@@ -327,6 +360,7 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
         """
         return LanceTable.open(self, name)
 
+    @override
     def drop_table(self, name: str, ignore_missing: bool = False):
         """Drop a table from the database.
 
@@ -345,6 +379,7 @@ class LanceDBConnection(DBConnection):
             if not ignore_missing:
                 raise
 
+    @override
     def drop_database(self):
         filesystem, path = fs_from_uri(self.uri)
         filesystem.delete_dir(path)

python/lancedb/embeddings/__init__.py

@@ -11,14 +11,12 @@
 #  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 #  limitations under the License.
 
-
-from .functions import (
-    EmbeddingFunction,
-    EmbeddingFunctionConfig,
-    EmbeddingFunctionRegistry,
-    OpenAIEmbeddings,
-    OpenClipEmbeddings,
-    SentenceTransformerEmbeddings,
-    TextEmbeddingFunction,
-)
+# ruff: noqa: F401
+from .base import EmbeddingFunction, EmbeddingFunctionConfig, TextEmbeddingFunction
+from .cohere import CohereEmbeddingFunction
+from .instructor import InstructorEmbeddingFunction
+from .open_clip import OpenClipEmbeddings
+from .openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
+from .registry import EmbeddingFunctionRegistry, get_registry
+from .sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformerEmbeddings
 from .utils import with_embeddings

python/lancedb/embeddings/base.py

@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+#  Copyright (c) 2023. LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+import importlib
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from typing import List, Union
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow as pa
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, PrivateAttr
+
+from .utils import TEXT, retry_with_exponential_backoff
+
+
+class EmbeddingFunction(BaseModel, ABC):
+    """
+    An ABC for embedding functions.
+
+    All concrete embedding functions must implement the following:
+    1. compute_query_embeddings() which takes a query and returns a list of embeddings
+    2. get_source_embeddings() which returns a list of embeddings for the source column
+    For text data, the two will be the same. For multi-modal data, the source column
+    might be images and the vector column might be text.
+    3. ndims method which returns the number of dimensions of the vector column
+    """
+
+    __slots__ = ("__weakref__",)  # pydantic 1.x compatibility
+    max_retries: int = (
+        7  # Setitng 0 disables retires. Maybe this should not be enabled by default,
+    )
+    _ndims: int = PrivateAttr()
+
+    @classmethod
+    def create(cls, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Create an instance of the embedding function
+        """
+        return cls(**kwargs)
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def compute_query_embeddings(self, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Compute the embeddings for a given user query
+        """
+        pass
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def compute_source_embeddings(self, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Compute the embeddings for the source column in the database
+        """
+        pass
+
+    def compute_query_embeddings_with_retry(self, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Compute the embeddings for a given user query with retries
+        """
+        return retry_with_exponential_backoff(
+            self.compute_query_embeddings, max_retries=self.max_retries
+        )(
+            *args,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
+
+    def compute_source_embeddings_with_retry(self, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Compute the embeddings for the source column in the database with retries
+        """
+        return retry_with_exponential_backoff(
+            self.compute_source_embeddings, max_retries=self.max_retries
+        )(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def sanitize_input(self, texts: TEXT) -> Union[List[str], np.ndarray]:
+        """
+        Sanitize the input to the embedding function.
+        """
+        if isinstance(texts, str):
+            texts = [texts]
+        elif isinstance(texts, pa.Array):
+            texts = texts.to_pylist()
+        elif isinstance(texts, pa.ChunkedArray):
+            texts = texts.combine_chunks().to_pylist()
+        return texts
+
+    @classmethod
+    def safe_import(cls, module: str, mitigation=None):
+        """
+        Import the specified module. If the module is not installed,
+        raise an ImportError with a helpful message.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        module : str
+            The name of the module to import
+        mitigation : Optional[str]
+            The package(s) to install to mitigate the error.
+            If not provided then the module name will be used.
+        """
+        try:
+            return importlib.import_module(module)
+        except ImportError:
+            raise ImportError(f"Please install {mitigation or module}")
+
+    def safe_model_dump(self):
+        from ..pydantic import PYDANTIC_VERSION
+
+        if PYDANTIC_VERSION.major < 2:
+            return dict(self)
+        return self.model_dump()
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def ndims(self):
+        """
+        Return the dimensions of the vector column
+        """
+        pass
+
+    def SourceField(self, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Creates a pydantic Field that can automatically annotate
+        the source column for this embedding function
+        """
+        return Field(json_schema_extra={"source_column_for": self}, **kwargs)
+
+    def VectorField(self, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Creates a pydantic Field that can automatically annotate
+        the target vector column for this embedding function
+        """
+        return Field(json_schema_extra={"vector_column_for": self}, **kwargs)
+
+    def __eq__(self, __value: object) -> bool:
+        if not hasattr(__value, "__dict__"):
+            return False
+        return vars(self) == vars(__value)
+
+    def __hash__(self) -> int:
+        return hash(frozenset(vars(self).items()))
+
+
+class EmbeddingFunctionConfig(BaseModel):
+    """
+    This model encapsulates the configuration for a embedding function
+    in a lancedb table. It holds the embedding function, the source column,
+    and the vector column
+    """
+
+    vector_column: str
+    source_column: str
+    function: EmbeddingFunction
+
+
+class TextEmbeddingFunction(EmbeddingFunction):
+    """
+    A callable ABC for embedding functions that take text as input
+    """
+
+    def compute_query_embeddings(self, query: str, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
+        return self.compute_source_embeddings(query, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    def compute_source_embeddings(self, texts: TEXT, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
+        texts = self.sanitize_input(texts)
+        return self.generate_embeddings(texts)
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def generate_embeddings(
+        self, texts: Union[List[str], np.ndarray]
+    ) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Generate the embeddings for the given texts
+        """
+        pass

python/lancedb/embeddings/cohere.py

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#  Copyright (c) 2023. LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+
+import os
+from typing import ClassVar, List, Union
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from .base import TextEmbeddingFunction
+from .registry import register
+from .utils import api_key_not_found_help
+
+
+@register("cohere")
+class CohereEmbeddingFunction(TextEmbeddingFunction):
+    """
+    An embedding function that uses the Cohere API
+
+    https://docs.cohere.com/docs/multilingual-language-models
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    name: str, default "embed-multilingual-v2.0"
+        The name of the model to use. See the Cohere documentation for
+        a list of available models.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    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)
+
+    """
+
+    name: str = "embed-multilingual-v2.0"
+    client: ClassVar = None
+
+    def ndims(self):
+        # TODO: fix hardcoding
+        return 768
+
+    def generate_embeddings(
+        self, texts: Union[List[str], np.ndarray]
+    ) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Get the embeddings for the given texts
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        texts: list[str] or np.ndarray (of str)
+            The texts to embed
+        """
+        # TODO retry, rate limit, token limit
+        self._init_client()
+        rs = CohereEmbeddingFunction.client.embed(texts=texts, model=self.name)
+
+        return [emb for emb in rs.embeddings]
+
+    def _init_client(self):
+        cohere = self.safe_import("cohere")
+        if CohereEmbeddingFunction.client is None:
+            if os.environ.get("COHERE_API_KEY") is None:
+                api_key_not_found_help("cohere")
+            CohereEmbeddingFunction.client = cohere.Client(os.environ["COHERE_API_KEY"])

python/lancedb/embeddings/functions.py

@@ -1,578 +0,0 @@
-#  Copyright (c) 2023. LanceDB Developers
-#
-#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-#  limitations under the License.
-import concurrent.futures
-import importlib
-import io
-import json
-import os
-import socket
-import urllib.error
-import urllib.parse as urlparse
-import urllib.request
-from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
-from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Union
-
-import numpy as np
-import pyarrow as pa
-from cachetools import cached
-from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, PrivateAttr
-from tqdm import tqdm
-
-
-class EmbeddingFunctionRegistry:
-    """
-    This is a singleton class used to register embedding functions
-    and fetch them by name. It also handles serializing and deserializing.
-    You can implement your own embedding function by subclassing EmbeddingFunction
-    or TextEmbeddingFunction and registering it with the registry.
-
-    Examples
-    --------
-    >>> registry = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance()
-    >>> @registry.register("my-embedding-function")
-    ... class MyEmbeddingFunction(EmbeddingFunction):
-    ...     def ndims(self) -> int:
-    ...         return 128
-    ...
-    ...     def compute_query_embeddings(self, query: str, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
-    ...         return self.compute_source_embeddings(query, *args, **kwargs)
-    ...
-    ...     def compute_source_embeddings(self, texts: TEXT, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
-    ...         return [np.random.rand(self.ndims()) for _ in range(len(texts))]
-    ...
-    >>> registry.get("my-embedding-function")
-    <class 'lancedb.embeddings.functions.MyEmbeddingFunction'>
-    """
-
-    @classmethod
-    def get_instance(cls):
-        return __REGISTRY__
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        self._functions = {}
-
-    def register(self, alias: str = None):
-        """
-        This creates a decorator that can be used to register
-        an EmbeddingFunction.
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        alias : Optional[str]
-            a human friendly name for the embedding function. If not
-            provided, the class name will be used.
-        """
-
-        # This is a decorator for a class that inherits from BaseModel
-        # It adds the class to the registry
-        def decorator(cls):
-            if not issubclass(cls, EmbeddingFunction):
-                raise TypeError("Must be a subclass of EmbeddingFunction")
-            if cls.__name__ in self._functions:
-                raise KeyError(f"{cls.__name__} was already registered")
-            key = alias or cls.__name__
-            self._functions[key] = cls
-            cls.__embedding_function_registry_alias__ = alias
-            return cls
-
-        return decorator
-
-    def reset(self):
-        """
-        Reset the registry to its initial state
-        """
-        self._functions = {}
-
-    def get(self, name: str):
-        """
-        Fetch an embedding function class by name
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        name : str
-            The name of the embedding function to fetch
-            Either the alias or the class name if no alias was provided
-            during registration
-        """
-        return self._functions[name]
-
-    def parse_functions(
-        self, metadata: Optional[Dict[bytes, bytes]]
-    ) -> Dict[str, "EmbeddingFunctionConfig"]:
-        """
-        Parse the metadata from an arrow table and
-        return a mapping of the vector column to the
-        embedding function and source column
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        metadata : Optional[Dict[bytes, bytes]]
-            The metadata from an arrow table. Note that
-            the keys and values are bytes (pyarrow api)
-
-        Returns
-        -------
-        functions : dict
-            A mapping of vector column name to embedding function.
-            An empty dict is returned if input is None or does not
-            contain b"embedding_functions".
-        """
-        if metadata is None or b"embedding_functions" not in metadata:
-            return {}
-        serialized = metadata[b"embedding_functions"]
-        raw_list = json.loads(serialized.decode("utf-8"))
-        return {
-            obj["vector_column"]: EmbeddingFunctionConfig(
-                vector_column=obj["vector_column"],
-                source_column=obj["source_column"],
-                function=self.get(obj["name"])(**obj["model"]),
-            )
-            for obj in raw_list
-        }
-
-    def function_to_metadata(self, conf: "EmbeddingFunctionConfig"):
-        """
-        Convert the given embedding function and source / vector column configs
-        into a config dictionary that can be serialized into arrow metadata
-        """
-        func = conf.function
-        name = getattr(
-            func, "__embedding_function_registry_alias__", func.__class__.__name__
-        )
-        json_data = func.safe_model_dump()
-        return {
-            "name": name,
-            "model": json_data,
-            "source_column": conf.source_column,
-            "vector_column": conf.vector_column,
-        }
-
-    def get_table_metadata(self, func_list):
-        """
-        Convert a list of embedding functions and source / vector configs
-        into a config dictionary that can be serialized into arrow metadata
-        """
-        if func_list is None or len(func_list) == 0:
-            return None
-        json_data = [self.function_to_metadata(func) for func in func_list]
-        # Note that metadata dictionary values must be bytes
-        # so we need to json dump then utf8 encode
-        metadata = json.dumps(json_data, indent=2).encode("utf-8")
-        return {"embedding_functions": metadata}
-
-
-# Global instance
-__REGISTRY__ = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry()
-
-
-TEXT = Union[str, List[str], pa.Array, pa.ChunkedArray, np.ndarray]
-IMAGES = Union[
-    str, bytes, List[str], List[bytes], pa.Array, pa.ChunkedArray, np.ndarray
-]
-
-
-class EmbeddingFunction(BaseModel, ABC):
-    """
-    An ABC for embedding functions.
-
-    All concrete embedding functions must implement the following:
-    1. compute_query_embeddings() which takes a query and returns a list of embeddings
-    2. get_source_embeddings() which returns a list of embeddings for the source column
-    For text data, the two will be the same. For multi-modal data, the source column
-    might be images and the vector column might be text.
-    3. ndims method which returns the number of dimensions of the vector column
-    """
-
-    _ndims: int = PrivateAttr()
-
-    @classmethod
-    def create(cls, **kwargs):
-        """
-        Create an instance of the embedding function
-        """
-        return cls(**kwargs)
-
-    @abstractmethod
-    def compute_query_embeddings(self, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
-        """
-        Compute the embeddings for a given user query
-        """
-        pass
-
-    @abstractmethod
-    def compute_source_embeddings(self, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
-        """
-        Compute the embeddings for the source column in the database
-        """
-        pass
-
-    def sanitize_input(self, texts: TEXT) -> Union[List[str], np.ndarray]:
-        """
-        Sanitize the input to the embedding function.
-        """
-        if isinstance(texts, str):
-            texts = [texts]
-        elif isinstance(texts, pa.Array):
-            texts = texts.to_pylist()
-        elif isinstance(texts, pa.ChunkedArray):
-            texts = texts.combine_chunks().to_pylist()
-        return texts
-
-    @classmethod
-    def safe_import(cls, module: str, mitigation=None):
-        """
-        Import the specified module. If the module is not installed,
-        raise an ImportError with a helpful message.
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        module : str
-            The name of the module to import
-        mitigation : Optional[str]
-            The package(s) to install to mitigate the error.
-            If not provided then the module name will be used.
-        """
-        try:
-            return importlib.import_module(module)
-        except ImportError:
-            raise ImportError(f"Please install {mitigation or module}")
-
-    def safe_model_dump(self):
-        from ..pydantic import PYDANTIC_VERSION
-
-        if PYDANTIC_VERSION.major < 2:
-            return dict(self)
-        return self.model_dump()
-
-    @abstractmethod
-    def ndims(self):
-        """
-        Return the dimensions of the vector column
-        """
-        pass
-
-    def SourceField(self, **kwargs):
-        """
-        Creates a pydantic Field that can automatically annotate
-        the source column for this embedding function
-        """
-        return Field(json_schema_extra={"source_column_for": self}, **kwargs)
-
-    def VectorField(self, **kwargs):
-        """
-        Creates a pydantic Field that can automatically annotate
-        the target vector column for this embedding function
-        """
-        return Field(json_schema_extra={"vector_column_for": self}, **kwargs)
-
-
-class EmbeddingFunctionConfig(BaseModel):
-    """
-    This model encapsulates the configuration for a embedding function
-    in a lancedb table. It holds the embedding function, the source column,
-    and the vector column
-    """
-
-    vector_column: str
-    source_column: str
-    function: EmbeddingFunction
-
-
-class TextEmbeddingFunction(EmbeddingFunction):
-    """
-    A callable ABC for embedding functions that take text as input
-    """
-
-    def compute_query_embeddings(self, query: str, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
-        return self.compute_source_embeddings(query, *args, **kwargs)
-
-    def compute_source_embeddings(self, texts: TEXT, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
-        texts = self.sanitize_input(texts)
-        return self.generate_embeddings(texts)
-
-    @abstractmethod
-    def generate_embeddings(
-        self, texts: Union[List[str], np.ndarray]
-    ) -> List[np.array]:
-        """
-        Generate the embeddings for the given texts
-        """
-        pass
-
-
-# @EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance().register(name) doesn't work in 3.8
-register = lambda name: EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance().register(name)
-
-
-@register("sentence-transformers")
-class SentenceTransformerEmbeddings(TextEmbeddingFunction):
-    """
-    An embedding function that uses the sentence-transformers library
-
-    https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers
-    """
-
-    name: str = "all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
-    device: str = "cpu"
-    normalize: bool = True
-
-    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
-        super().__init__(**kwargs)
-        self._ndims = None
-
-    @property
-    def embedding_model(self):
-        """
-        Get the sentence-transformers embedding model specified by the
-        name and device. This is cached so that the model is only loaded
-        once per process.
-        """
-        return self.__class__.get_embedding_model(self.name, self.device)
-
-    def ndims(self):
-        if self._ndims is None:
-            self._ndims = len(self.generate_embeddings("foo")[0])
-        return self._ndims
-
-    def generate_embeddings(
-        self, texts: Union[List[str], np.ndarray]
-    ) -> List[np.array]:
-        """
-        Get the embeddings for the given texts
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        texts: list[str] or np.ndarray (of str)
-            The texts to embed
-        """
-        return self.embedding_model.encode(
-            list(texts),
-            convert_to_numpy=True,
-            normalize_embeddings=self.normalize,
-        ).tolist()
-
-    @classmethod
-    @cached(cache={})
-    def get_embedding_model(cls, name, device):
-        """
-        Get the sentence-transformers embedding model specified by the
-        name and device. This is cached so that the model is only loaded
-        once per process.
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        name : str
-            The name of the model to load
-        device : str
-            The device to load the model on
-
-        TODO: use lru_cache instead with a reasonable/configurable maxsize
-        """
-        sentence_transformers = cls.safe_import(
-            "sentence_transformers", "sentence-transformers"
-        )
-        return sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformer(name, device=device)
-
-
-@register("openai")
-class OpenAIEmbeddings(TextEmbeddingFunction):
-    """
-    An embedding function that uses the OpenAI API
-
-    https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings
-    """
-
-    name: str = "text-embedding-ada-002"
-
-    def ndims(self):
-        # TODO don't hardcode this
-        return 1536
-
-    def generate_embeddings(
-        self, texts: Union[List[str], np.ndarray]
-    ) -> List[np.array]:
-        """
-        Get the embeddings for the given texts
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        texts: list[str] or np.ndarray (of str)
-            The texts to embed
-        """
-        # TODO retry, rate limit, token limit
-        openai = self.safe_import("openai")
-        rs = openai.Embedding.create(input=texts, model=self.name)["data"]
-        return [v["embedding"] for v in rs]
-
-
-@register("open-clip")
-class OpenClipEmbeddings(EmbeddingFunction):
-    """
-    An embedding function that uses the OpenClip API
-    For multi-modal text-to-image search
-
-    https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip
-    """
-
-    name: str = "ViT-B-32"
-    pretrained: str = "laion2b_s34b_b79k"
-    device: str = "cpu"
-    batch_size: int = 64
-    normalize: bool = True
-    _model = PrivateAttr()
-    _preprocess = PrivateAttr()
-    _tokenizer = PrivateAttr()
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-        open_clip = self.safe_import("open_clip", "open-clip")
-        model, _, preprocess = open_clip.create_model_and_transforms(
-            self.name, pretrained=self.pretrained
-        )
-        model.to(self.device)
-        self._model, self._preprocess = model, preprocess
-        self._tokenizer = open_clip.get_tokenizer(self.name)
-        self._ndims = None
-
-    def ndims(self):
-        if self._ndims is None:
-            self._ndims = self.generate_text_embeddings("foo").shape[0]
-        return self._ndims
-
-    def compute_query_embeddings(
-        self, query: Union[str, "PIL.Image.Image"], *args, **kwargs
-    ) -> List[np.ndarray]:
-        """
-        Compute the embeddings for a given user query
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        query : Union[str, PIL.Image.Image]
-            The query to embed. A query can be either text or an image.
-        """
-        if isinstance(query, str):
-            return [self.generate_text_embeddings(query)]
-        else:
-            PIL = self.safe_import("PIL", "pillow")
-            if isinstance(query, PIL.Image.Image):
-                return [self.generate_image_embedding(query)]
-            else:
-                raise TypeError("OpenClip supports str or PIL Image as query")
-
-    def generate_text_embeddings(self, text: str) -> np.ndarray:
-        torch = self.safe_import("torch")
-        text = self.sanitize_input(text)
-        text = self._tokenizer(text)
-        text.to(self.device)
-        with torch.no_grad():
-            text_features = self._model.encode_text(text.to(self.device))
-            if self.normalize:
-                text_features /= text_features.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
-            return text_features.cpu().numpy().squeeze()
-
-    def sanitize_input(self, images: IMAGES) -> Union[List[bytes], np.ndarray]:
-        """
-        Sanitize the input to the embedding function.
-        """
-        if isinstance(images, (str, bytes)):
-            images = [images]
-        elif isinstance(images, pa.Array):
-            images = images.to_pylist()
-        elif isinstance(images, pa.ChunkedArray):
-            images = images.combine_chunks().to_pylist()
-        return images
-
-    def compute_source_embeddings(
-        self, images: IMAGES, *args, **kwargs
-    ) -> List[np.array]:
-        """
-        Get the embeddings for the given images
-        """
-        images = self.sanitize_input(images)
-        embeddings = []
-        for i in range(0, len(images), self.batch_size):
-            j = min(i + self.batch_size, len(images))
-            batch = images[i:j]
-            embeddings.extend(self._parallel_get(batch))
-        return embeddings
-
-    def _parallel_get(self, images: Union[List[str], List[bytes]]) -> List[np.ndarray]:
-        """
-        Issue concurrent requests to retrieve the image data
-        """
-        with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor() as executor:
-            futures = [
-                executor.submit(self.generate_image_embedding, image)
-                for image in images
-            ]
-            return [future.result() for future in tqdm(futures)]
-
-    def generate_image_embedding(
-        self, image: Union[str, bytes, "PIL.Image.Image"]
-    ) -> np.ndarray:
-        """
-        Generate the embedding for a single image
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        image : Union[str, bytes, PIL.Image.Image]
-            The image to embed. If the image is a str, it is treated as a uri.
-            If the image is bytes, it is treated as the raw image bytes.
-        """
-        torch = self.safe_import("torch")
-        # TODO handle retry and errors for https
-        image = self._to_pil(image)
-        image = self._preprocess(image).unsqueeze(0)
-        with torch.no_grad():
-            return self._encode_and_normalize_image(image)
-
-    def _to_pil(self, image: Union[str, bytes]):
-        PIL = self.safe_import("PIL", "pillow")
-        if isinstance(image, bytes):
-            return PIL.Image.open(io.BytesIO(image))
-        if isinstance(image, PIL.Image.Image):
-            return image
-        elif isinstance(image, str):
-            parsed = urlparse.urlparse(image)
-            # TODO handle drive letter on windows.
-            if parsed.scheme == "file":
-                return PIL.Image.open(parsed.path)
-            elif parsed.scheme == "":
-                return PIL.Image.open(image if os.name == "nt" else parsed.path)
-            elif parsed.scheme.startswith("http"):
-                return PIL.Image.open(io.BytesIO(url_retrieve(image)))
-            else:
-                raise NotImplementedError("Only local and http(s) urls are supported")
-
-    def _encode_and_normalize_image(self, image_tensor: "torch.Tensor"):
-        """
-        encode a single image tensor and optionally normalize the output
-        """
-        image_features = self._model.encode_image(image_tensor.to(self.device))
-        if self.normalize:
-            image_features /= image_features.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
-        return image_features.cpu().numpy().squeeze()
-
-
-def url_retrieve(url: str):
-    """
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    url: str
-        URL to download from
-    """
-    try:
-        with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as conn:
-            return conn.read()
-    except (socket.gaierror, urllib.error.URLError) as err:
-        raise ConnectionError("could not download {} due to {}".format(url, err))

python/lancedb/embeddings/instructor.py

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+#  Copyright (c) 2023. LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+from typing import List
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from .base import TextEmbeddingFunction
+from .registry import register
+from .utils import TEXT, weak_lru
+
+
+@register("instructor")
+class InstructorEmbeddingFunction(TextEmbeddingFunction):
+    """
+    An embedding function that uses the InstructorEmbedding library. Instructor models support multi-task learning, and can be used for a
+    variety of tasks, including text classification, sentence similarity, and document retrieval.
+    If you want to calculate customized embeddings for specific sentences, you may follow the unified template to write instructions:
+        "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.
+
+    For example, if you want to calculate embeddings for a document, you may write the instruction as follows:
+        "Represent the document for retreival"
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    name: str
+        The name of the model to use. Available models are listed at https://github.com/xlang-ai/instructor-embedding#model-list;
+        The default model is hkunlp/instructor-base
+    batch_size: int, default 32
+        The batch size to use when generating embeddings
+    device: str, default "cpu"
+        The device to use when generating embeddings
+    show_progress_bar: bool, default True
+        Whether to show a progress bar when generating embeddings
+    normalize_embeddings: bool, default True
+        Whether to normalize the embeddings
+    quantize: bool, default False
+        Whether to quantize the model
+    source_instruction: str, default "represent the docuement for retreival"
+        The instruction for the source column
+    query_instruction: str, default "represent the document for retreiving the most similar documents"
+        The instruction for the query
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    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)
+
+    """
+
+    name: str = "hkunlp/instructor-base"
+    batch_size: int = 32
+    device: str = "cpu"
+    show_progress_bar: bool = True
+    normalize_embeddings: bool = True
+    quantize: bool = False
+    # convert_to_numpy: bool = True # Hardcoding this as numpy can be ingested directly
+
+    source_instruction: str = "represent the document for retrieval"
+    query_instruction: str = (
+        "represent the document for retrieving the most similar documents"
+    )
+
+    @weak_lru(maxsize=1)
+    def ndims(self):
+        model = self.get_model()
+        return model.encode("foo").shape[0]
+
+    def compute_query_embeddings(self, query: str, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
+        return self.generate_embeddings([[self.query_instruction, query]])
+
+    def compute_source_embeddings(self, texts: TEXT, *args, **kwargs) -> List[np.array]:
+        texts = self.sanitize_input(texts)
+        texts_formatted = []
+        for text in texts:
+            texts_formatted.append([self.source_instruction, text])
+        return self.generate_embeddings(texts_formatted)
+
+    def generate_embeddings(self, texts: List) -> List:
+        model = self.get_model()
+        res = model.encode(
+            texts,
+            batch_size=self.batch_size,
+            show_progress_bar=self.show_progress_bar,
+            normalize_embeddings=self.normalize_embeddings,
+        ).tolist()
+        return res
+
+    @weak_lru(maxsize=1)
+    def get_model(self):
+        instructor_embedding = self.safe_import(
+            "InstructorEmbedding", "InstructorEmbedding"
+        )
+        torch = self.safe_import("torch", "torch")
+
+        model = instructor_embedding.INSTRUCTOR(self.name)
+        if self.quantize:
+            if (
+                "qnnpack" in torch.backends.quantized.supported_engines
+            ):  # fix for https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/29327
+                torch.backends.quantized.engine = "qnnpack"
+            model = torch.quantization.quantize_dynamic(
+                model, {torch.nn.Linear}, dtype=torch.qint8
+            )
+        return model

python/lancedb/embeddings/open_clip.py

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+#  Copyright (c) 2023. LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+import concurrent.futures
+import io
+import os
+import urllib.parse as urlparse
+from typing import List, Union
+
+import numpy as np
+import pyarrow as pa
+from pydantic import PrivateAttr
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+from .base import EmbeddingFunction
+from .registry import register
+from .utils import IMAGES, url_retrieve
+
+
+@register("open-clip")
+class OpenClipEmbeddings(EmbeddingFunction):
+    """
+    An embedding function that uses the OpenClip API
+    For multi-modal text-to-image search
+
+    https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip
+    """
+
+    name: str = "ViT-B-32"
+    pretrained: str = "laion2b_s34b_b79k"
+    device: str = "cpu"
+    batch_size: int = 64
+    normalize: bool = True
+    _model = PrivateAttr()
+    _preprocess = PrivateAttr()
+    _tokenizer = PrivateAttr()
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        open_clip = self.safe_import("open_clip", "open-clip")
+        model, _, preprocess = open_clip.create_model_and_transforms(
+            self.name, pretrained=self.pretrained
+        )
+        model.to(self.device)
+        self._model, self._preprocess = model, preprocess
+        self._tokenizer = open_clip.get_tokenizer(self.name)
+        self._ndims = None
+
+    def ndims(self):
+        if self._ndims is None:
+            self._ndims = self.generate_text_embeddings("foo").shape[0]
+        return self._ndims
+
+    def compute_query_embeddings(
+        self, query: Union[str, "PIL.Image.Image"], *args, **kwargs
+    ) -> List[np.ndarray]:
+        """
+        Compute the embeddings for a given user query
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        query : Union[str, PIL.Image.Image]
+            The query to embed. A query can be either text or an image.
+        """
+        if isinstance(query, str):
+            return [self.generate_text_embeddings(query)]
+        else:
+            PIL = self.safe_import("PIL", "pillow")
+            if isinstance(query, PIL.Image.Image):
+                return [self.generate_image_embedding(query)]
+            else:
+                raise TypeError("OpenClip supports str or PIL Image as query")
+
+    def generate_text_embeddings(self, text: str) -> np.ndarray:
+        torch = self.safe_import("torch")
+        text = self.sanitize_input(text)
+        text = self._tokenizer(text)
+        text.to(self.device)
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            text_features = self._model.encode_text(text.to(self.device))
+            if self.normalize:
+                text_features /= text_features.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+            return text_features.cpu().numpy().squeeze()
+
+    def sanitize_input(self, images: IMAGES) -> Union[List[bytes], np.ndarray]:
+        """
+        Sanitize the input to the embedding function.
+        """
+        if isinstance(images, (str, bytes)):
+            images = [images]
+        elif isinstance(images, pa.Array):
+            images = images.to_pylist()
+        elif isinstance(images, pa.ChunkedArray):
+            images = images.combine_chunks().to_pylist()
+        return images
+
+    def compute_source_embeddings(
+        self, images: IMAGES, *args, **kwargs
+    ) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Get the embeddings for the given images
+        """
+        images = self.sanitize_input(images)
+        embeddings = []
+        for i in range(0, len(images), self.batch_size):
+            j = min(i + self.batch_size, len(images))
+            batch = images[i:j]
+            embeddings.extend(self._parallel_get(batch))
+        return embeddings
+
+    def _parallel_get(self, images: Union[List[str], List[bytes]]) -> List[np.ndarray]:
+        """
+        Issue concurrent requests to retrieve the image data
+        """
+        with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor() as executor:
+            futures = [
+                executor.submit(self.generate_image_embedding, image)
+                for image in images
+            ]
+            return [future.result() for future in tqdm(futures)]
+
+    def generate_image_embedding(
+        self, image: Union[str, bytes, "PIL.Image.Image"]
+    ) -> np.ndarray:
+        """
+        Generate the embedding for a single image
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        image : Union[str, bytes, PIL.Image.Image]
+            The image to embed. If the image is a str, it is treated as a uri.
+            If the image is bytes, it is treated as the raw image bytes.
+        """
+        torch = self.safe_import("torch")
+        # TODO handle retry and errors for https
+        image = self._to_pil(image)
+        image = self._preprocess(image).unsqueeze(0)
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            return self._encode_and_normalize_image(image)
+
+    def _to_pil(self, image: Union[str, bytes]):
+        PIL = self.safe_import("PIL", "pillow")
+        if isinstance(image, bytes):
+            return PIL.Image.open(io.BytesIO(image))
+        if isinstance(image, PIL.Image.Image):
+            return image
+        elif isinstance(image, str):
+            parsed = urlparse.urlparse(image)
+            # TODO handle drive letter on windows.
+            if parsed.scheme == "file":
+                return PIL.Image.open(parsed.path)
+            elif parsed.scheme == "":
+                return PIL.Image.open(image if os.name == "nt" else parsed.path)
+            elif parsed.scheme.startswith("http"):
+                return PIL.Image.open(io.BytesIO(url_retrieve(image)))
+            else:
+                raise NotImplementedError("Only local and http(s) urls are supported")
+
+    def _encode_and_normalize_image(self, image_tensor: "torch.Tensor"):
+        """
+        encode a single image tensor and optionally normalize the output
+        """
+        image_features = self._model.encode_image(image_tensor.to(self.device))
+        if self.normalize:
+            image_features /= image_features.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+        return image_features.cpu().numpy().squeeze()

python/lancedb/embeddings/openai.py

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#  Copyright (c) 2023. LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+from typing import List, Union
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from .base import TextEmbeddingFunction
+from .registry import register
+
+
+@register("openai")
+class OpenAIEmbeddings(TextEmbeddingFunction):
+    """
+    An embedding function that uses the OpenAI API
+
+    https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings
+    """
+
+    name: str = "text-embedding-ada-002"
+
+    def ndims(self):
+        # TODO don't hardcode this
+        return 1536
+
+    def generate_embeddings(
+        self, texts: Union[List[str], np.ndarray]
+    ) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Get the embeddings for the given texts
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        texts: list[str] or np.ndarray (of str)
+            The texts to embed
+        """
+        # TODO retry, rate limit, token limit
+        openai = self.safe_import("openai")
+        rs = openai.Embedding.create(input=texts, model=self.name)["data"]
+        return [v["embedding"] for v in rs]

python/lancedb/embeddings/registry.py

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+#  Copyright (c) 2023. LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+import json
+from typing import Dict, Optional
+
+from .base import EmbeddingFunction, EmbeddingFunctionConfig
+
+
+class EmbeddingFunctionRegistry:
+    """
+    This is a singleton class used to register embedding functions
+    and fetch them by name. It also handles serializing and deserializing.
+    You can implement your own embedding function by subclassing EmbeddingFunction
+    or TextEmbeddingFunction and registering it with the registry.
+
+    NOTE: Here TEXT is a type alias for Union[str, List[str], pa.Array, pa.ChunkedArray, np.ndarray]
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> registry = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance()
+    >>> @registry.register("my-embedding-function")
+    ... class MyEmbeddingFunction(EmbeddingFunction):
+    ...     def ndims(self) -> int:
+    ...         return 128
+    ...
+    ...     def compute_query_embeddings(self, query: str, *args, **kwargs):
+    ...         return self.compute_source_embeddings(query, *args, **kwargs)
+    ...
+    ...     def compute_source_embeddings(self, texts, *args, **kwargs):
+    ...         return [np.random.rand(self.ndims()) for _ in range(len(texts))]
+    ...
+    >>> registry.get("my-embedding-function")
+    <class 'lancedb.embeddings.registry.MyEmbeddingFunction'>
+    """
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_instance(cls):
+        return __REGISTRY__
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._functions = {}
+
+    def register(self, alias: str = None):
+        """
+        This creates a decorator that can be used to register
+        an EmbeddingFunction.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        alias : Optional[str]
+            a human friendly name for the embedding function. If not
+            provided, the class name will be used.
+        """
+
+        # This is a decorator for a class that inherits from BaseModel
+        # It adds the class to the registry
+        def decorator(cls):
+            if not issubclass(cls, EmbeddingFunction):
+                raise TypeError("Must be a subclass of EmbeddingFunction")
+            if cls.__name__ in self._functions:
+                raise KeyError(f"{cls.__name__} was already registered")
+            key = alias or cls.__name__
+            self._functions[key] = cls
+            cls.__embedding_function_registry_alias__ = alias
+            return cls
+
+        return decorator
+
+    def reset(self):
+        """
+        Reset the registry to its initial state
+        """
+        self._functions = {}
+
+    def get(self, name: str):
+        """
+        Fetch an embedding function class by name
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        name : str
+            The name of the embedding function to fetch
+            Either the alias or the class name if no alias was provided
+            during registration
+        """
+        return self._functions[name]
+
+    def parse_functions(
+        self, metadata: Optional[Dict[bytes, bytes]]
+    ) -> Dict[str, "EmbeddingFunctionConfig"]:
+        """
+        Parse the metadata from an arrow table and
+        return a mapping of the vector column to the
+        embedding function and source column
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        metadata : Optional[Dict[bytes, bytes]]
+            The metadata from an arrow table. Note that
+            the keys and values are bytes (pyarrow api)
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        functions : dict
+            A mapping of vector column name to embedding function.
+            An empty dict is returned if input is None or does not
+            contain b"embedding_functions".
+        """
+        if metadata is None or b"embedding_functions" not in metadata:
+            return {}
+        serialized = metadata[b"embedding_functions"]
+        raw_list = json.loads(serialized.decode("utf-8"))
+        return {
+            obj["vector_column"]: EmbeddingFunctionConfig(
+                vector_column=obj["vector_column"],
+                source_column=obj["source_column"],
+                function=self.get(obj["name"])(**obj["model"]),
+            )
+            for obj in raw_list
+        }
+
+    def function_to_metadata(self, conf: "EmbeddingFunctionConfig"):
+        """
+        Convert the given embedding function and source / vector column configs
+        into a config dictionary that can be serialized into arrow metadata
+        """
+        func = conf.function
+        name = getattr(
+            func, "__embedding_function_registry_alias__", func.__class__.__name__
+        )
+        json_data = func.safe_model_dump()
+        return {
+            "name": name,
+            "model": json_data,
+            "source_column": conf.source_column,
+            "vector_column": conf.vector_column,
+        }
+
+    def get_table_metadata(self, func_list):
+        """
+        Convert a list of embedding functions and source / vector configs
+        into a config dictionary that can be serialized into arrow metadata
+        """
+        if func_list is None or len(func_list) == 0:
+            return None
+        json_data = [self.function_to_metadata(func) for func in func_list]
+        # Note that metadata dictionary values must be bytes
+        # so we need to json dump then utf8 encode
+        metadata = json.dumps(json_data, indent=2).encode("utf-8")
+        return {"embedding_functions": metadata}
+
+
+# Global instance
+__REGISTRY__ = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry()
+
+
+# @EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance().register(name) doesn't work in 3.8
+register = lambda name: EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance().register(name)
+
+
+def get_registry():
+    """
+    Utility function to get the global instance of the registry
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+        The global registry instance
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+
+    registry = get_registry()
+    openai = registry.get("openai").create()
+    """
+    return __REGISTRY__.get_instance()

python/lancedb/embeddings/sentence_transformers.py

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#  Copyright (c) 2023. LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+from typing import List, Union
+
+import numpy as np
+from cachetools import cached
+
+from .base import TextEmbeddingFunction
+from .registry import register
+from .utils import weak_lru
+
+
+@register("sentence-transformers")
+class SentenceTransformerEmbeddings(TextEmbeddingFunction):
+    """
+    An embedding function that uses the sentence-transformers library
+
+    https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers
+    """
+
+    name: str = "all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
+    device: str = "cpu"
+    normalize: bool = True
+
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self._ndims = None
+
+    @property
+    def embedding_model(self):
+        """
+        Get the sentence-transformers embedding model specified by the
+        name and device. This is cached so that the model is only loaded
+        once per process.
+        """
+        return self.get_embedding_model()
+
+    def ndims(self):
+        if self._ndims is None:
+            self._ndims = len(self.generate_embeddings("foo")[0])
+        return self._ndims
+
+    def generate_embeddings(
+        self, texts: Union[List[str], np.ndarray]
+    ) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Get the embeddings for the given texts
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        texts: list[str] or np.ndarray (of str)
+            The texts to embed
+        """
+        return self.embedding_model.encode(
+            list(texts),
+            convert_to_numpy=True,
+            normalize_embeddings=self.normalize,
+        ).tolist()
+
+    @weak_lru(maxsize=1)
+    def get_embedding_model(self):
+        """
+        Get the sentence-transformers embedding model specified by the
+        name and device. This is cached so that the model is only loaded
+        once per process.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        name : str
+            The name of the model to load
+        device : str
+            The device to load the model on
+
+        TODO: use lru_cache instead with a reasonable/configurable maxsize
+        """
+        sentence_transformers = self.safe_import(
+            "sentence_transformers", "sentence-transformers"
+        )
+        return sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformer(self.name, device=self.device)

python/lancedb/embeddings/utils.py

@@ -11,9 +11,15 @@
 #  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 #  limitations under the License.
 
+import functools
 import math
+import random
+import socket
 import sys
-from typing import Callable, Union
+import time
+import urllib.error
+import weakref
+from typing import Callable, List, Union
 
 import numpy as np
 import pyarrow as pa
@@ -21,9 +27,15 @@ from lance.vector import vec_to_table
 from retry import retry
 
 from ..util import safe_import_pandas
+from ..utils.general import LOGGER
 
 pd = safe_import_pandas()
+
 DATA = Union[pa.Table, "pd.DataFrame"]
+TEXT = Union[str, List[str], pa.Array, pa.ChunkedArray, np.ndarray]
+IMAGES = Union[
+    str, bytes, List[str], List[bytes], pa.Array, pa.ChunkedArray, np.ndarray
+]
 
 
 def with_embeddings(
@@ -152,3 +164,115 @@ class FunctionWrapper:
             yield from tqdm(_chunker(arr), total=math.ceil(length / self._batch_size))
         else:
             yield from _chunker(arr)
+
+
+def weak_lru(maxsize=128):
+    """
+    LRU cache that keeps weak references to the objects it caches. Only caches the latest instance of the objects to make sure memory usage
+    is bounded.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    maxsize : int, default 128
+        The maximum number of objects to cache.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    Callable
+        A decorator that can be applied to a method.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> class Foo:
+    ...     @weak_lru()
+    ...     def bar(self, x):
+    ...         return x
+    >>> foo = Foo()
+    >>> foo.bar(1)
+    1
+    >>> foo.bar(2)
+    2
+    >>> foo.bar(1)
+    1
+    """
+
+    def wrapper(func):
+        @functools.lru_cache(maxsize)
+        def _func(_self, *args, **kwargs):
+            return func(_self(), *args, **kwargs)
+
+        @functools.wraps(func)
+        def inner(self, *args, **kwargs):
+            return _func(weakref.ref(self), *args, **kwargs)
+
+        return inner
+
+    return wrapper
+
+
+def retry_with_exponential_backoff(
+    func,
+    initial_delay: float = 1,
+    exponential_base: float = 2,
+    jitter: bool = True,
+    max_retries: int = 7,
+    # errors: tuple = (),
+):
+    """Retry a function with exponential backoff.
+
+    Args:
+        func (function): The function to be retried.
+        initial_delay (float): Initial delay in seconds (default is 1).
+        exponential_base (float): The base for exponential backoff (default is 2).
+        jitter (bool): Whether to add jitter to the delay (default is True).
+        max_retries (int): Maximum number of retries (default is 10).
+        errors (tuple): Tuple of specific exceptions to retry on (default is (openai.error.RateLimitError,)).
+
+    Returns:
+        function: The decorated function.
+    """
+
+    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+        num_retries = 0
+        delay = initial_delay
+
+        # Loop until a successful response or max_retries is hit or an exception is raised
+        while True:
+            try:
+                return func(*args, **kwargs)
+
+            # Currently retrying on all exceptions as there is no way to know the format of the error msgs used by different APIs
+            # We'll log the error and say that it is assumed that if this portion errors out, it's due to rate limit but the user
+            # should check the error message to be sure
+            except Exception as e:
+                num_retries += 1
+
+                if num_retries > max_retries:
+                    raise Exception(
+                        f"Maximum number of retries ({max_retries}) exceeded."
+                    )
+
+                delay *= exponential_base * (1 + jitter * random.random())
+                LOGGER.info(f"Retrying in {delay:.2f} seconds due to {e}")
+                time.sleep(delay)
+
+    return wrapper
+
+
+def url_retrieve(url: str):
+    """
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    url: str
+        URL to download from
+    """
+    try:
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as conn:
+            return conn.read()
+    except (socket.gaierror, urllib.error.URLError) as err:
+        raise ConnectionError("could not download {} due to {}".format(url, err))
+
+
+def api_key_not_found_help(provider):
+    LOGGER.error(f"Could not find API key for {provider}.")
+    raise ValueError(f"Please set the {provider.upper()}_API_KEY environment variable.")

python/lancedb/pydantic.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import inspect
 import sys
 import types
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from datetime import date, datetime
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Generator, List, Type, Union, _GenericAlias
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -159,6 +160,10 @@ def _py_type_to_arrow_type(py_type: Type[Any]) -> pa.DataType:
         return pa.bool_()
     elif py_type == bytes:
         return pa.binary()
+    elif py_type == date:
+        return pa.date32()
+    elif py_type == datetime:
+        return pa.timestamp("us")
     raise TypeError(
         f"Converting Pydantic type to Arrow Type: unsupported type {py_type}"
     )
@@ -322,7 +327,12 @@ class LanceModel(pydantic.BaseModel):
         for vec, func in vec_and_function:
             for source, field_info in cls.safe_get_fields().items():
                 src_func = get_extras(field_info, "source_column_for")
-                if src_func == func:
+                if src_func is func:
+                    # note we can't use == here since the function is a pydantic
+                    # model so two instances of the same function are ==, so if you
+                    # have multiple vector columns from multiple sources, both will
+                    # be mapped to the same source column
+                    # GH594
                     configs.append(
                         EmbeddingFunctionConfig(
                             source_column=source, vector_column=vec, function=func
@@ -338,3 +348,20 @@ def get_extras(field_info: pydantic.fields.FieldInfo, key: str) -> Any:
     if PYDANTIC_VERSION.major >= 2:
         return (field_info.json_schema_extra or {}).get(key)
     return (field_info.field_info.extra or {}).get("json_schema_extra", {}).get(key)
+
+
+if PYDANTIC_VERSION.major < 2:
+
+    def model_to_dict(model: pydantic.BaseModel) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        """
+        Convert a Pydantic model to a dictionary.
+        """
+        return model.dict()
+
+else:
+
+    def model_to_dict(model: pydantic.BaseModel) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        """
+        Convert a Pydantic model to a dictionary.
+        """
+        return model.model_dump()

python/lancedb/query.py

@@ -14,21 +14,58 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
-from typing import List, Literal, Optional, Type, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, List, Literal, Optional, Type, Union
 
+import deprecation
 import numpy as np
 import pyarrow as pa
 import pydantic
 
+from . import __version__
 from .common import VECTOR_COLUMN_NAME
-from .pydantic import LanceModel
 from .util import safe_import_pandas
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .pydantic import LanceModel
+
 pd = safe_import_pandas()
 
 
 class Query(pydantic.BaseModel):
-    """A Query"""
+    """The LanceDB Query
+
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    vector : List[float]
+        the vector to search for
+    filter : Optional[str]
+        sql filter to refine the query with, optional
+    prefilter : bool
+        if True then apply the filter before vector search
+    k : int
+        top k results to return
+    metric : str
+        the distance metric between a pair of vectors,
+
+        can support L2 (default), Cosine and Dot.
+        [metric definitions][search]
+    columns : Optional[List[str]]
+        which columns to return in the results
+    nprobes : int
+        The number of probes used - optional
+
+        - A higher number makes search more accurate but also slower.
+
+        - See discussion in [Querying an ANN Index][querying-an-ann-index] for
+          tuning advice.
+    refine_factor : Optional[int]
+        Refine the results by reading extra elements and re-ranking them in memory - optional
+
+        - A higher number makes search more accurate but also slower.
+
+        - See discussion in [Querying an ANN Index][querying-an-ann-index] for
+          tuning advice.
+    """
 
     vector_column: str = VECTOR_COLUMN_NAME
 
@@ -59,6 +96,10 @@ class Query(pydantic.BaseModel):
 
 
 class LanceQueryBuilder(ABC):
+    """Build LanceDB query based on specific query type:
+    vector or full text search.
+    """
+
     @classmethod
     def create(
         cls,
@@ -101,7 +142,7 @@ class LanceQueryBuilder(ABC):
             if not isinstance(query, (list, np.ndarray)):
                 conf = table.embedding_functions.get(vector_column_name)
                 if conf is not None:
-                    query = conf.function.compute_query_embeddings(query)[0]
+                    query = conf.function.compute_query_embeddings_with_retry(query)[0]
                 else:
                     msg = f"No embedding function for {vector_column_name}"
                     raise ValueError(msg)
@@ -112,7 +153,7 @@ class LanceQueryBuilder(ABC):
             else:
                 conf = table.embedding_functions.get(vector_column_name)
                 if conf is not None:
-                    query = conf.function.compute_query_embeddings(query)[0]
+                    query = conf.function.compute_query_embeddings_with_retry(query)[0]
                     return query, "vector"
                 else:
                     return query, "fts"
@@ -127,7 +168,24 @@ class LanceQueryBuilder(ABC):
         self._columns = None
         self._where = None
 
+    @deprecation.deprecated(
+        deprecated_in="0.3.1",
+        removed_in="0.4.0",
+        current_version=__version__,
+        details="Use to_pandas() instead",
+    )
     def to_df(self) -> "pd.DataFrame":
+        """
+        *Deprecated alias for `to_pandas()`. Please use `to_pandas()` instead.*
+
+        Execute the query and return the results as a pandas DataFrame.
+        In addition to the selected columns, LanceDB also returns a vector
+        and also the "_distance" column which is the distance between the query
+        vector and the returned vector.
+        """
+        return self.to_pandas()
+
+    def to_pandas(self) -> "pd.DataFrame":
         """
         Execute the query and return the results as a pandas DataFrame.
         In addition to the selected columns, LanceDB also returns a vector
@@ -148,6 +206,16 @@ class LanceQueryBuilder(ABC):
         """
         raise NotImplementedError
 
+    def to_list(self) -> List[dict]:
+        """
+        Execute the query and return the results as a list of dictionaries.
+
+        Each list entry is a dictionary with the selected column names as keys,
+        or all table columns if `select` is not called. The vector and the "_distance"
+        fields are returned whether or not they're explicitly selected.
+        """
+        return self.to_arrow().to_pylist()
+
     def to_pydantic(self, model: Type[LanceModel]) -> List[LanceModel]:
         """Return the table as a list of pydantic models.
 
@@ -197,13 +265,20 @@ class LanceQueryBuilder(ABC):
         self._columns = columns
         return self
 
-    def where(self, where) -> LanceQueryBuilder:
+    def where(self, where: str, prefilter: bool = False) -> LanceQueryBuilder:
         """Set the where clause.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         where: str
-            The where clause.
+            The where clause which is a valid SQL where clause. See
+            `Lance filter pushdown <https://lancedb.github.io/lance/read_and_write.html#filter-push-down>`_
+            for valid SQL expressions.
+        prefilter: bool, default False
+            If True, apply the filter before vector search, otherwise the
+            filter is applied on the result of vector search.
+            This feature is **EXPERIMENTAL** and may be removed and modified
+            without warning in the future.
 
         Returns
         -------
@@ -211,13 +286,12 @@ class LanceQueryBuilder(ABC):
             The LanceQueryBuilder object.
         """
         self._where = where
+        self._prefilter = prefilter
         return self
 
 
 class LanceVectorQueryBuilder(LanceQueryBuilder):
     """
-    A builder for nearest neighbor queries for LanceDB.
-
     Examples
     --------
     >>> import lancedb
@@ -232,7 +306,7 @@ class LanceVectorQueryBuilder(LanceQueryBuilder):
     ...       .where("b < 10")
     ...       .select(["b"])
     ...       .limit(2)
-    ...       .to_df())
+    ...       .to_pandas())
        b      vector  _distance
     0  6  [0.4, 0.4]        0.0
     """
@@ -273,7 +347,7 @@ class LanceVectorQueryBuilder(LanceQueryBuilder):
         Higher values will yield better recall (more likely to find vectors if
         they exist) at the expense of latency.
 
-        See discussion in [Querying an ANN Index][../querying-an-ann-index] for
+        See discussion in [Querying an ANN Index][querying-an-ann-index] for
         tuning advice.
 
         Parameters
@@ -340,14 +414,14 @@ class LanceVectorQueryBuilder(LanceQueryBuilder):
         Parameters
         ----------
         where: str
-            The where clause.
+            The where clause which is a valid SQL where clause. See
+            `Lance filter pushdown <https://lancedb.github.io/lance/read_and_write.html#filter-push-down>`_
+            for valid SQL expressions.
         prefilter: bool, default False
             If True, apply the filter before vector search, otherwise the
             filter is applied on the result of vector search.
             This feature is **EXPERIMENTAL** and may be removed and modified
-            without warning in the future. Currently this is only supported
-            in OSS and can only be used with a table that does not have an ANN
-            index.
+            without warning in the future.
 
         Returns
         -------
@@ -360,6 +434,8 @@ class LanceVectorQueryBuilder(LanceQueryBuilder):
 
 
 class LanceFtsQueryBuilder(LanceQueryBuilder):
+    """A builder for full text search for LanceDB."""
+
     def __init__(self, table: "lancedb.table.Table", query: str):
         super().__init__(table)
         self._query = query

python/lancedb/remote/__init__.py

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ import attrs
 import pyarrow as pa
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 
+from lancedb.common import VECTOR_COLUMN_NAME
+
 __all__ = ["LanceDBClient", "VectorQuery", "VectorQueryResult"]
 
 
@@ -43,6 +45,8 @@ class VectorQuery(BaseModel):
 
     refine_factor: Optional[int] = None
 
+    vector_column: str = VECTOR_COLUMN_NAME
+
 
 @attrs.define
 class VectorQueryResult:

python/lancedb/remote/client.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 
 import functools
-from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Optional, Union
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, Optional, Union
 
 import aiohttp
 import attrs
@@ -151,9 +151,13 @@ class RestfulLanceDBClient:
             return await deserialize(resp)
 
     @_check_not_closed
-    async def list_tables(self):
+    async def list_tables(
+        self, limit: int, page_token: Optional[str] = None
+    ) -> Iterable[str]:
         """List all tables in the database."""
-        json = await self.get("/v1/table/", {})
+        if page_token is None:
+            page_token = ""
+        json = await self.get("/v1/table/", {"limit": limit, "page_token": page_token})
         return json["tables"]
 
     @_check_not_closed

python/lancedb/remote/db.py

@@ -12,17 +12,23 @@
 #  limitations under the License.
 
 import asyncio
+import inspect
+import logging
 import uuid
-from typing import List, Optional
+from typing import Iterable, List, Optional, Union
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 import pyarrow as pa
+from overrides import override
 
 from ..common import DATA
 from ..db import DBConnection
+from ..embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionConfig
+from ..pydantic import LanceModel
 from ..table import Table, _sanitize_data
 from .arrow import to_ipc_binary
 from .client import ARROW_STREAM_CONTENT_TYPE, RestfulLanceDBClient
+from .errors import LanceDBClientError
 
 
 class RemoteDBConnection(DBConnection):
@@ -50,13 +56,37 @@ class RemoteDBConnection(DBConnection):
             self._loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
 
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
-        return f"RemoveConnect(name={self.db_name})"
+        return f"RemoteConnect(name={self.db_name})"
 
-    def table_names(self) -> List[str]:
-        """List the names of all tables in the database."""
-        result = self._loop.run_until_complete(self._client.list_tables())
-        return result
+    @override
+    def table_names(
+        self, page_token: Optional[str] = None, limit: int = 10
+    ) -> Iterable[str]:
+        """List the names of all tables in the database.
 
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        page_token: str
+            The last token to start the new page.
+        limit: int, default 10
+            The maximum number of tables to return for each page.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        An iterator of table names.
+        """
+        while True:
+            result = self._loop.run_until_complete(
+                self._client.list_tables(limit, page_token)
+            )
+            if len(result) > 0:
+                page_token = result[len(result) - 1]
+            else:
+                break
+            for item in result:
+                yield item
+
+    @override
     def open_table(self, name: str) -> Table:
         """Open a Lance Table in the database.
 
@@ -71,23 +101,142 @@ class RemoteDBConnection(DBConnection):
         """
         from .table import RemoteTable
 
-        # TODO: check if table exists
-
+        # check if table exists
+        try:
+            self._loop.run_until_complete(
+                self._client.post(f"/v1/table/{name}/describe/")
+            )
+        except LanceDBClientError as err:
+            if str(err).startswith("Not found"):
+                logging.error(
+                    f"Table {name} does not exist. "
+                    f"Please first call db.create_table({name}, data)"
+                )
         return RemoteTable(self, name)
 
+    @override
     def create_table(
         self,
         name: str,
         data: DATA = None,
-        schema: pa.Schema = None,
+        schema: Optional[Union[pa.Schema, LanceModel]] = None,
         on_bad_vectors: str = "error",
         fill_value: float = 0.0,
+        embedding_functions: Optional[List[EmbeddingFunctionConfig]] = None,
     ) -> Table:
+        """Create a [Table][lancedb.table.Table] in the database.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        name: str
+            The name of the table.
+        data: The data to initialize the table, *optional*
+            User must provide at least one of `data` or `schema`.
+            Acceptable types are:
+
+            - dict or list-of-dict
+
+            - pandas.DataFrame
+
+            - pyarrow.Table or pyarrow.RecordBatch
+        schema: The schema of the table, *optional*
+            Acceptable types are:
+
+            - pyarrow.Schema
+
+            - [LanceModel][lancedb.pydantic.LanceModel]
+        on_bad_vectors: str, default "error"
+            What to do if any of the vectors are not the same size or contains NaNs.
+            One of "error", "drop", "fill".
+        fill_value: float
+            The value to use when filling vectors. Only used if on_bad_vectors="fill".
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        LanceTable
+            A reference to the newly created table.
+
+        !!! note
+
+            The vector index won't be created by default.
+            To create the index, call the `create_index` method on the table.
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+
+        Can create with list of tuples or dictionaries:
+
+        >>> import lancedb
+        >>> db = lancedb.connect("db://...", api_key="...", region="...") # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> data = [{"vector": [1.1, 1.2], "lat": 45.5, "long": -122.7},
+        ...         {"vector": [0.2, 1.8], "lat": 40.1, "long":  -74.1}]
+        >>> db.create_table("my_table", data) # doctest: +SKIP
+        LanceTable(my_table)
+
+        You can also pass a pandas DataFrame:
+
+        >>> import pandas as pd
+        >>> data = pd.DataFrame({
+        ...    "vector": [[1.1, 1.2], [0.2, 1.8]],
+        ...    "lat": [45.5, 40.1],
+        ...    "long": [-122.7, -74.1]
+        ... })
+        >>> db.create_table("table2", data) # doctest: +SKIP
+        LanceTable(table2)
+
+        >>> custom_schema = pa.schema([
+        ...   pa.field("vector", pa.list_(pa.float32(), 2)),
+        ...   pa.field("lat", pa.float32()),
+        ...   pa.field("long", pa.float32())
+        ... ])
+        >>> db.create_table("table3", data, schema = custom_schema) # doctest: +SKIP
+        LanceTable(table3)
+
+        It is also possible to create an table from `[Iterable[pa.RecordBatch]]`:
+
+        >>> import pyarrow as pa
+        >>> def make_batches():
+        ...     for i in range(5):
+        ...         yield pa.RecordBatch.from_arrays(
+        ...             [
+        ...                 pa.array([[3.1, 4.1], [5.9, 26.5]],
+        ...                     pa.list_(pa.float32(), 2)),
+        ...                 pa.array(["foo", "bar"]),
+        ...                 pa.array([10.0, 20.0]),
+        ...             ],
+        ...             ["vector", "item", "price"],
+        ...         )
+        >>> schema=pa.schema([
+        ...     pa.field("vector", pa.list_(pa.float32(), 2)),
+        ...     pa.field("item", pa.utf8()),
+        ...     pa.field("price", pa.float32()),
+        ... ])
+        >>> db.create_table("table4", make_batches(), schema=schema) # doctest: +SKIP
+        LanceTable(table4)
+
+        """
         if data is None and schema is None:
             raise ValueError("Either data or schema must be provided.")
+        if embedding_functions is not None:
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "embedding_functions is not supported for remote databases."
+                "Please vote https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/626 "
+                "for this feature."
+            )
+
+        if inspect.isclass(schema) and issubclass(schema, LanceModel):
+            # convert LanceModel to pyarrow schema
+            # note that it's possible this contains
+            # embedding function metadata already
+            schema = schema.to_arrow_schema()
+
         if data is not None:
             data = _sanitize_data(
-                data, schema, on_bad_vectors=on_bad_vectors, fill_value=fill_value
+                data,
+                schema,
+                metadata=None,
+                on_bad_vectors=on_bad_vectors,
+                fill_value=fill_value,
             )
         else:
             if schema is None:
@@ -109,6 +258,7 @@ class RemoteDBConnection(DBConnection):
         )
         return RemoteTable(self, name)
 
+    @override
     def drop_table(self, name: str):
         """Drop a table from the database.
 
@@ -122,3 +272,8 @@ class RemoteDBConnection(DBConnection):
                 f"/v1/table/{name}/drop/",
             )
         )
+
+    async def close(self):
+        """Close the connection to the database."""
+        self._loop.close()
+        await self._client.close()

python/lancedb/remote/table.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 import uuid
 from functools import cached_property
-from typing import Optional, Union
+from typing import Dict, Optional, Union
 
 import pyarrow as pa
 from lance import json_to_schema
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ from lancedb.common import DATA, VEC, VECTOR_COLUMN_NAME
 
 from ..query import LanceVectorQueryBuilder
 from ..table import Query, Table, _sanitize_data
+from ..util import value_to_sql
 from .arrow import to_ipc_binary
 from .client import ARROW_STREAM_CONTENT_TYPE
 from .db import RemoteDBConnection
@@ -37,34 +38,81 @@ class RemoteTable(Table):
 
     @cached_property
     def schema(self) -> pa.Schema:
-        """Return the schema of the table."""
+        """The [Arrow Schema](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/api/datatypes.html#)
+        of this Table
+
+        """
         resp = self._conn._loop.run_until_complete(
             self._conn._client.post(f"/v1/table/{self._name}/describe/")
         )
         schema = json_to_schema(resp["schema"])
         return schema
 
+    @property
+    def version(self) -> int:
+        """Get the current version of the table"""
+        resp = self._conn._loop.run_until_complete(
+            self._conn._client.post(f"/v1/table/{self._name}/describe/")
+        )
+        return resp["version"]
+
     def to_arrow(self) -> pa.Table:
-        """Return the table as an Arrow table."""
+        """to_arrow() is not supported on the LanceDB cloud"""
         raise NotImplementedError("to_arrow() is not supported on the LanceDB cloud")
 
     def to_pandas(self):
-        """Return the table as a Pandas DataFrame.
-
-        Intercept `to_arrow()` for better error message.
-        """
+        """to_pandas() is not supported on the LanceDB cloud"""
         return NotImplementedError("to_pandas() is not supported on the LanceDB cloud")
 
     def create_index(
         self,
         metric="L2",
-        num_partitions=256,
-        num_sub_vectors=96,
         vector_column_name: str = VECTOR_COLUMN_NAME,
-        replace: bool = True,
-        accelerator: Optional[str] = None,
+        index_cache_size: Optional[int] = None,
     ):
-        raise NotImplementedError
+        """Create an index on the table.
+        Currently, the only parameters that matter are
+        the metric and the vector column name.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        metric : str
+            The metric to use for the index. Default is "L2".
+        vector_column_name : str
+            The name of the vector column. Default is "vector".
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+        >>> import lancedb
+        >>> import uuid
+        >>> from lancedb.schema import vector
+        >>> db = lancedb.connect("db://...", api_key="...", region="...") # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table_name = uuid.uuid4().hex
+        >>> schema = pa.schema(
+        ...     [
+        ...             pa.field("id", pa.uint32(), False),
+        ...            pa.field("vector", vector(128), False),
+        ...             pa.field("s", pa.string(), False),
+        ...     ]
+        ... )
+        >>> table = db.create_table( # doctest: +SKIP
+        ...     table_name, # doctest: +SKIP
+        ...     schema=schema, # doctest: +SKIP
+        ... )
+        >>> table.create_index("L2", "vector") # doctest: +SKIP
+        """
+        index_type = "vector"
+
+        data = {
+            "column": vector_column_name,
+            "index_type": index_type,
+            "metric_type": metric,
+            "index_cache_size": index_cache_size,
+        }
+        resp = self._conn._loop.run_until_complete(
+            self._conn._client.post(f"/v1/table/{self._name}/create_index/", data=data)
+        )
+        return resp
 
     def add(
         self,
@@ -73,6 +121,28 @@ class RemoteTable(Table):
         on_bad_vectors: str = "error",
         fill_value: float = 0.0,
     ) -> int:
+        """Add more data to the [Table](Table). It has the same API signature as the OSS version.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        data: DATA
+            The data to insert into the table. Acceptable types are:
+
+            - dict or list-of-dict
+
+            - pandas.DataFrame
+
+            - pyarrow.Table or pyarrow.RecordBatch
+        mode: str
+            The mode to use when writing the data. Valid values are
+            "append" and "overwrite".
+        on_bad_vectors: str, default "error"
+            What to do if any of the vectors are not the same size or contains NaNs.
+            One of "error", "drop", "fill".
+        fill_value: float, default 0.
+            The value to use when filling vectors. Only used if on_bad_vectors="fill".
+
+        """
         data = _sanitize_data(
             data,
             self.schema,
@@ -96,13 +166,173 @@ class RemoteTable(Table):
     def search(
         self, query: Union[VEC, str], vector_column_name: str = VECTOR_COLUMN_NAME
     ) -> LanceVectorQueryBuilder:
+        """Create a search query to find the nearest neighbors
+        of the given query vector. We currently support [vector search][search]
+
+        All query options are defined in [Query][lancedb.query.Query].
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+        >>> import lancedb
+        >>> db = lancedb.connect("db://...", api_key="...", region="...") # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> data = [
+        ...    {"original_width": 100, "caption": "bar", "vector": [0.1, 2.3, 4.5]},
+        ...    {"original_width": 2000, "caption": "foo",  "vector": [0.5, 3.4, 1.3]},
+        ...    {"original_width": 3000, "caption": "test", "vector": [0.3, 6.2, 2.6]}
+        ... ]
+        >>> table = db.create_table("my_table", data) # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> query = [0.4, 1.4, 2.4]
+        >>> (table.search(query, vector_column_name="vector") # doctest: +SKIP
+        ...     .where("original_width > 1000", prefilter=True) # doctest: +SKIP
+        ...     .select(["caption", "original_width"]) # doctest: +SKIP
+        ...     .limit(2) # doctest: +SKIP
+        ...     .to_pandas()) # doctest: +SKIP
+          caption  original_width           vector  _distance # doctest: +SKIP
+        0     foo            2000  [0.5, 3.4, 1.3]   5.220000 # doctest: +SKIP
+        1    test            3000  [0.3, 6.2, 2.6]  23.089996 # doctest: +SKIP
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        query: list/np.ndarray/str/PIL.Image.Image, default None
+            The targetted vector to search for.
+
+            - *default None*.
+            Acceptable types are: list, np.ndarray, PIL.Image.Image
+
+            - If None then the select/where/limit clauses are applied to filter
+            the table
+        vector_column_name: str
+            The name of the vector column to search.
+            *default "vector"*
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        LanceQueryBuilder
+            A query builder object representing the query.
+            Once executed, the query returns
+
+            - selected columns
+
+            - the vector
+
+            - and also the "_distance" column which is the distance between the query
+            vector and the returned vector.
+        """
         return LanceVectorQueryBuilder(self, query, vector_column_name)
 
     def _execute_query(self, query: Query) -> pa.Table:
-        if query.prefilter:
-            raise NotImplementedError("Cloud support for prefiltering is coming soon")
         result = self._conn._client.query(self._name, query)
         return self._conn._loop.run_until_complete(result).to_arrow()
 
     def delete(self, predicate: str):
-        raise NotImplementedError
+        """Delete rows from the table.
+
+        This can be used to delete a single row, many rows, all rows, or
+        sometimes no rows (if your predicate matches nothing).
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        predicate: str
+            The SQL where clause to use when deleting rows.
+
+            - For example, 'x = 2' or 'x IN (1, 2, 3)'.
+
+            The filter must not be empty, or it will error.
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+        >>> import lancedb
+        >>> data = [
+        ...    {"x": 1, "vector": [1, 2]},
+        ...    {"x": 2, "vector": [3, 4]},
+        ...    {"x": 3, "vector": [5, 6]}
+        ... ]
+        >>> db = lancedb.connect("db://...", api_key="...", region="...") # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table = db.create_table("my_table", data) # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table.search([10,10]).to_pandas() # doctest: +SKIP
+           x      vector  _distance # doctest: +SKIP
+        0  3  [5.0, 6.0]       41.0 # doctest: +SKIP
+        1  2  [3.0, 4.0]       85.0 # doctest: +SKIP
+        2  1  [1.0, 2.0]      145.0 # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table.delete("x = 2") # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table.search([10,10]).to_pandas() # doctest: +SKIP
+           x      vector  _distance # doctest: +SKIP
+        0  3  [5.0, 6.0]       41.0 # doctest: +SKIP
+        1  1  [1.0, 2.0]      145.0 # doctest: +SKIP
+
+        If you have a list of values to delete, you can combine them into a
+        stringified list and use the `IN` operator:
+
+        >>> to_remove = [1, 3] # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> to_remove = ", ".join([str(v) for v in to_remove]) # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table.delete(f"x IN ({to_remove})") # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table.search([10,10]).to_pandas() # doctest: +SKIP
+           x      vector  _distance # doctest: +SKIP
+        0  2  [3.0, 4.0]       85.0 # doctest: +SKIP
+        """
+        payload = {"predicate": predicate}
+        self._conn._loop.run_until_complete(
+            self._conn._client.post(f"/v1/table/{self._name}/delete/", data=payload)
+        )
+
+    def update(
+        self,
+        where: Optional[str] = None,
+        values: Optional[dict] = None,
+        *,
+        values_sql: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
+    ):
+        """
+        This can be used to update zero to all rows depending on how many
+        rows match the where clause.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        where: str, optional
+            The SQL where clause to use when updating rows. For example, 'x = 2'
+            or 'x IN (1, 2, 3)'. The filter must not be empty, or it will error.
+        values: dict, optional
+            The values to update. The keys are the column names and the values
+            are the values to set.
+        values_sql: dict, optional
+            The values to update, expressed as SQL expression strings. These can
+            reference existing columns. For example, {"x": "x + 1"} will increment
+            the x column by 1.
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+        >>> import lancedb
+        >>> data = [
+        ...    {"x": 1, "vector": [1, 2]},
+        ...    {"x": 2, "vector": [3, 4]},
+        ...    {"x": 3, "vector": [5, 6]}
+        ... ]
+        >>> db = lancedb.connect("db://...", api_key="...", region="...") # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table = db.create_table("my_table", data) # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table.to_pandas() # doctest: +SKIP
+           x      vector # doctest: +SKIP
+        0  1  [1.0, 2.0] # doctest: +SKIP
+        1  2  [3.0, 4.0] # doctest: +SKIP
+        2  3  [5.0, 6.0] # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table.update(where="x = 2", values={"vector": [10, 10]}) # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> table.to_pandas() # doctest: +SKIP
+           x        vector # doctest: +SKIP
+        0  1    [1.0, 2.0] # doctest: +SKIP
+        1  3    [5.0, 6.0] # doctest: +SKIP
+        2  2  [10.0, 10.0] # doctest: +SKIP
+
+        """
+        if values is not None and values_sql is not None:
+            raise ValueError("Only one of values or values_sql can be provided")
+        if values is None and values_sql is None:
+            raise ValueError("Either values or values_sql must be provided")
+
+        if values is not None:
+            updates = [[k, value_to_sql(v)] for k, v in values.items()]
+        else:
+            updates = [[k, v] for k, v in values_sql.items()]
+
+        payload = {"predicate": where, "updates": updates}
+        self._conn._loop.run_until_complete(
+            self._conn._client.post(f"/v1/table/{self._name}/update/", data=payload)
+        )

python/lancedb/table.py

@@ -17,22 +17,27 @@ import inspect
 import os
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from functools import cached_property
-from typing import Any, Iterable, List, Optional, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Union
 
 import lance
 import numpy as np
 import pyarrow as pa
 import pyarrow.compute as pc
 from lance import LanceDataset
-from lance.dataset import ReaderLike
 from lance.vector import vec_to_table
 
 from .common import DATA, VEC, VECTOR_COLUMN_NAME
-from .embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
-from .embeddings.functions import EmbeddingFunctionConfig
-from .pydantic import LanceModel
+from .embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionConfig, EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+from .pydantic import LanceModel, model_to_dict
 from .query import LanceQueryBuilder, Query
-from .util import fs_from_uri, safe_import_pandas
+from .util import fs_from_uri, safe_import_pandas, value_to_sql
+from .utils.events import register_event
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from datetime import timedelta
+
+    from lance.dataset import CleanupStats, ReaderLike
+
 
 pd = safe_import_pandas()
 
@@ -48,7 +53,9 @@ def _sanitize_data(
         # convert to list of dict if data is a bunch of LanceModels
         if isinstance(data[0], LanceModel):
             schema = data[0].__class__.to_arrow_schema()
-            data = [dict(d) for d in data]
+            data = [model_to_dict(d) for d in data]
+            data = pa.Table.from_pylist(data, schema=schema)
+        else:
             data = pa.Table.from_pylist(data)
     elif isinstance(data, dict):
         data = vec_to_table(data)
@@ -85,7 +92,9 @@ def _append_vector_col(data: pa.Table, metadata: dict, schema: Optional[pa.Schem
     for vector_column, conf in functions.items():
         func = conf.function
         if vector_column not in data.column_names:
-            col_data = func.compute_source_embeddings(data[conf.source_column])
+            col_data = func.compute_source_embeddings_with_retry(
+                data[conf.source_column]
+            )
             if schema is not None:
                 dtype = schema.field(vector_column).type
             else:
@@ -136,7 +145,7 @@ class Table(ABC):
 
     Can query the table with [Table.search][lancedb.table.Table.search].
 
-    >>> table.search([0.4, 0.4]).select(["b"]).to_df()
+    >>> table.search([0.4, 0.4]).select(["b"]).to_pandas()
        b      vector  _distance
     0  4  [0.5, 1.3]       0.82
     1  2  [1.1, 1.2]       1.13
@@ -148,13 +157,13 @@ class Table(ABC):
     @property
     @abstractmethod
     def schema(self) -> pa.Schema:
-        """The [Arrow Schema](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/api/datatypes.html#) of
-        this [Table](Table)
+        """The [Arrow Schema](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/api/datatypes.html#)
+        of this Table
 
         """
         raise NotImplementedError
 
-    def to_pandas(self):
+    def to_pandas(self) -> "pd.DataFrame":
         """Return the table as a pandas DataFrame.
 
         Returns
@@ -181,6 +190,7 @@ class Table(ABC):
         vector_column_name: str = VECTOR_COLUMN_NAME,
         replace: bool = True,
         accelerator: Optional[str] = None,
+        index_cache_size: Optional[int] = None,
     ):
         """Create an index on the table.
 
@@ -190,20 +200,23 @@ class Table(ABC):
             The distance metric to use when creating the index.
             Valid values are "L2", "cosine", or "dot".
             L2 is euclidean distance.
-        num_partitions: int
+        num_partitions: int, default 256
             The number of IVF partitions to use when creating the index.
             Default is 256.
-        num_sub_vectors: int
+        num_sub_vectors: int, default 96
             The number of PQ sub-vectors to use when creating the index.
             Default is 96.
         vector_column_name: str, default "vector"
             The vector column name to create the index.
         replace: bool, default True
-            If True, replace the existing index if it exists.
-            If False, raise an error if duplicate index exists.
+            - If True, replace the existing index if it exists.
+
+            - If False, raise an error if duplicate index exists.
         accelerator: str, default None
             If set, use the given accelerator to create the index.
             Only support "cuda" for now.
+        index_cache_size : int, optional
+            The size of the index cache in number of entries. Default value is 256.
         """
         raise NotImplementedError
 
@@ -219,8 +232,14 @@ class Table(ABC):
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        data: list-of-dict, dict, pd.DataFrame
-            The data to insert into the table.
+        data: DATA
+            The data to insert into the table. Acceptable types are:
+
+            - dict or list-of-dict
+
+            - pandas.DataFrame
+
+            - pyarrow.Table or pyarrow.RecordBatch
         mode: str
             The mode to use when writing the data. Valid values are
             "append" and "overwrite".
@@ -241,31 +260,70 @@ class Table(ABC):
         query_type: str = "auto",
     ) -> LanceQueryBuilder:
         """Create a search query to find the nearest neighbors
-        of the given query vector.
+        of the given query vector. We currently support [vector search][search]
+        and [full-text search][experimental-full-text-search].
+
+        All query options are defined in [Query][lancedb.query.Query].
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+        >>> import lancedb
+        >>> db = lancedb.connect("./.lancedb")
+        >>> data = [
+        ...    {"original_width": 100, "caption": "bar", "vector": [0.1, 2.3, 4.5]},
+        ...    {"original_width": 2000, "caption": "foo",  "vector": [0.5, 3.4, 1.3]},
+        ...    {"original_width": 3000, "caption": "test", "vector": [0.3, 6.2, 2.6]}
+        ... ]
+        >>> table = db.create_table("my_table", data)
+        >>> query = [0.4, 1.4, 2.4]
+        >>> (table.search(query, vector_column_name="vector")
+        ...     .where("original_width > 1000", prefilter=True)
+        ...     .select(["caption", "original_width"])
+        ...     .limit(2)
+        ...     .to_pandas())
+          caption  original_width           vector  _distance
+        0     foo            2000  [0.5, 3.4, 1.3]   5.220000
+        1    test            3000  [0.3, 6.2, 2.6]  23.089996
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        query: str, list, np.ndarray, PIL.Image.Image, default None
-            The query to search for. If None then
-            the select/where/limit clauses are applied to filter
+        query: list/np.ndarray/str/PIL.Image.Image, default None
+            The targetted vector to search for.
+
+            - *default None*.
+            Acceptable types are: list, np.ndarray, PIL.Image.Image
+
+            - If None then the select/where/limit clauses are applied to filter
             the table
-        vector_column_name: str, default "vector"
+        vector_column_name: str
             The name of the vector column to search.
-        query_type: str, default "auto"
-            "vector", "fts", or "auto"
-            If "auto" then the query type is inferred from the query;
-            If `query` is a list/np.ndarray then the query type is "vector";
-            If `query` is a PIL.Image.Image then either do vector search
+            *default "vector"*
+        query_type: str
+            *default "auto"*.
+            Acceptable types are: "vector", "fts", or "auto"
+
+            - If "auto" then the query type is inferred from the query;
+
+                - If `query` is a list/np.ndarray then the query type is
+                "vector";
+
+                - If `query` is a PIL.Image.Image then either do vector search,
                 or raise an error if no corresponding embedding function is found.
-            If `query` is a string, then the query type is "vector" if the
+
+            - If `query` is a string, then the query type is "vector" if the
             table has embedding functions else the query type is "fts"
 
         Returns
         -------
         LanceQueryBuilder
             A query builder object representing the query.
-            Once executed, the query returns selected columns, the vector,
-            and also the "_distance" column which is the distance between the query
+            Once executed, the query returns
+
+            - selected columns
+
+            - the vector
+
+            - and also the "_distance" column which is the distance between the query
             vector and the returned vector.
         """
         raise NotImplementedError
@@ -284,14 +342,20 @@ class Table(ABC):
         Parameters
         ----------
         where: str
-            The SQL where clause to use when deleting rows. For example, 'x = 2'
-            or 'x IN (1, 2, 3)'. The filter must not be empty, or it will error.
+            The SQL where clause to use when deleting rows.
+
+            - For example, 'x = 2' or 'x IN (1, 2, 3)'.
+
+            The filter must not be empty, or it will error.
 
         Examples
         --------
         >>> import lancedb
-        >>> import pandas as pd
-        >>> data = pd.DataFrame({"x": [1, 2, 3], "vector": [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]})
+        >>> data = [
+        ...    {"x": 1, "vector": [1, 2]},
+        ...    {"x": 2, "vector": [3, 4]},
+        ...    {"x": 3, "vector": [5, 6]}
+        ... ]
         >>> db = lancedb.connect("./.lancedb")
         >>> table = db.create_table("my_table", data)
         >>> table.to_pandas()
@@ -375,7 +439,8 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
         --------
         >>> import lancedb
         >>> db = lancedb.connect("./.lancedb")
-        >>> table = db.create_table("my_table", [{"vector": [1.1, 0.9], "type": "vector"}])
+        >>> table = db.create_table("my_table",
+        ...    [{"vector": [1.1, 0.9], "type": "vector"}])
         >>> table.version
         2
         >>> table.to_pandas()
@@ -394,6 +459,17 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
             raise ValueError(f"Invalid version {version}")
         self._reset_dataset(version=version)
 
+        try:
+            # Accessing the property updates the cached value
+            _ = self._dataset
+        except Exception as e:
+            if "not found" in str(e):
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Version {version} no longer exists. Was it cleaned up?"
+                )
+            else:
+                raise e
+
     def restore(self, version: int = None):
         """Restore a version of the table. This is an in-place operation.
 
@@ -411,7 +487,8 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
         --------
         >>> import lancedb
         >>> db = lancedb.connect("./.lancedb")
-        >>> table = db.create_table("my_table", [{"vector": [1.1, 0.9], "type": "vector"}])
+        >>> table = db.create_table("my_table", [
+        ...     {"vector": [1.1, 0.9], "type": "vector"}])
         >>> table.version
         2
         >>> table.to_pandas()
@@ -484,6 +561,7 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
         vector_column_name=VECTOR_COLUMN_NAME,
         replace: bool = True,
         accelerator: Optional[str] = None,
+        index_cache_size: Optional[int] = None,
     ):
         """Create an index on the table."""
         self._dataset.create_index(
@@ -494,8 +572,10 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
             num_sub_vectors=num_sub_vectors,
             replace=replace,
             accelerator=accelerator,
+            index_cache_size=index_cache_size,
         )
         self._reset_dataset()
+        register_event("create_index")
 
     def create_fts_index(self, field_names: Union[str, List[str]]):
         """Create a full-text search index on the table.
@@ -514,6 +594,7 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
             field_names = [field_names]
         index = create_index(self._get_fts_index_path(), field_names)
         populate_index(index, self, field_names)
+        register_event("create_fts_index")
 
     def _get_fts_index_path(self):
         return os.path.join(self._dataset_uri, "_indices", "tantivy")
@@ -566,6 +647,7 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
         )
         lance.write_dataset(data, self._dataset_uri, schema=self.schema, mode=mode)
         self._reset_dataset()
+        register_event("add")
 
     def merge(
         self,
@@ -629,6 +711,7 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
             other_table, left_on=left_on, right_on=right_on, schema=schema
         )
         self._reset_dataset()
+        register_event("merge")
 
     @cached_property
     def embedding_functions(self) -> dict:
@@ -652,14 +735,39 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
         query_type: str = "auto",
     ) -> LanceQueryBuilder:
         """Create a search query to find the nearest neighbors
-        of the given query vector.
+        of the given query vector. We currently support [vector search][search]
+        and [full-text search][search].
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+        >>> import lancedb
+        >>> db = lancedb.connect("./.lancedb")
+        >>> data = [
+        ...    {"original_width": 100, "caption": "bar", "vector": [0.1, 2.3, 4.5]},
+        ...    {"original_width": 2000, "caption": "foo",  "vector": [0.5, 3.4, 1.3]},
+        ...    {"original_width": 3000, "caption": "test", "vector": [0.3, 6.2, 2.6]}
+        ... ]
+        >>> table = db.create_table("my_table", data)
+        >>> query = [0.4, 1.4, 2.4]
+        >>> (table.search(query, vector_column_name="vector")
+        ...     .where("original_width > 1000", prefilter=True)
+        ...     .select(["caption", "original_width"])
+        ...     .limit(2)
+        ...     .to_pandas())
+          caption  original_width           vector  _distance
+        0     foo            2000  [0.5, 3.4, 1.3]   5.220000
+        1    test            3000  [0.3, 6.2, 2.6]  23.089996
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        query: str, list, np.ndarray, a PIL Image or None
-            The query to search for. If None then
-            the select/where/limit clauses are applied to filter
-            the table
+        query: list/np.ndarray/str/PIL.Image.Image, default None
+            The targetted vector to search for.
+
+            - *default None*.
+            Acceptable types are: list, np.ndarray, PIL.Image.Image
+
+            - If None then the select/[where][sql]/limit clauses are applied
+            to filter the table
         vector_column_name: str, default "vector"
             The name of the vector column to search.
         query_type: str, default "auto"
@@ -668,7 +776,7 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
             If `query` is a list/np.ndarray then the query type is "vector";
             If `query` is a PIL.Image.Image then either do vector search
             or raise an error if no corresponding embedding function is found.
-            If the query is a string, then the query type is "vector" if the
+            If the `query` is a string, then the query type is "vector" if the
             table has embedding functions, else the query type is "fts"
 
         Returns
@@ -679,6 +787,7 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
             and also the "_distance" column which is the distance between the query
             vector and the returned vector.
         """
+        register_event("search_table")
         return LanceQueryBuilder.create(
             self, query, query_type, vector_column_name=vector_column_name
         )
@@ -701,8 +810,11 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
         Examples
         --------
         >>> import lancedb
-        >>> import pandas as pd
-        >>> data = pd.DataFrame({"x": [1, 2, 3], "vector": [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]})
+        >>> data = [
+        ...    {"x": 1, "vector": [1, 2]},
+        ...    {"x": 2, "vector": [3, 4]},
+        ...    {"x": 3, "vector": [5, 6]}
+        ... ]
         >>> db = lancedb.connect("./.lancedb")
         >>> table = db.create_table("my_table", data)
         >>> table.to_pandas()
@@ -721,7 +833,8 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
             The data to insert into the table.
             At least one of `data` or `schema` must be provided.
         schema: pa.Schema or LanceModel, optional
-            The schema of the table. If not provided, the schema is inferred from the data.
+            The schema of the table. If not provided,
+            the schema is inferred from the data.
             At least one of `data` or `schema` must be provided.
         mode: str, default "create"
             The mode to use when writing the data. Valid values are
@@ -782,6 +895,7 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
         if data is not None:
             table.add(data)
 
+        register_event("create_table")
         return table
 
     @classmethod
@@ -791,28 +905,39 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
         file_info = fs.get_file_info(path)
         if file_info.type != pa.fs.FileType.Directory:
             raise FileNotFoundError(
-                f"Table {name} does not exist. Please first call db.create_table({name}, data)"
+                f"Table {name} does not exist."
+                f"Please first call db.create_table({name}, data)"
             )
+        register_event("open_table")
+
         return tbl
 
     def delete(self, where: str):
         self._dataset.delete(where)
 
-    def update(self, where: str, values: dict):
+    def update(
+        self,
+        where: Optional[str] = None,
+        values: Optional[dict] = None,
+        *,
+        values_sql: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
+    ):
         """
-        EXPERIMENTAL: Update rows in the table (not threadsafe).
-
         This can be used to update zero to all rows depending on how many
         rows match the where clause.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        where: str
+        where: str, optional
             The SQL where clause to use when updating rows. For example, 'x = 2'
             or 'x IN (1, 2, 3)'. The filter must not be empty, or it will error.
-        values: dict
+        values: dict, optional
             The values to update. The keys are the column names and the values
             are the values to set.
+        values_sql: dict, optional
+            The values to update, expressed as SQL expression strings. These can
+            reference existing columns. For example, {"x": "x + 1"} will increment
+            the x column by 1.
 
         Examples
         --------
@@ -834,28 +959,20 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
         2  2  [10.0, 10.0]
 
         """
-        orig_data = self._dataset.to_table(filter=where).combine_chunks()
-        if len(orig_data) == 0:
-            return
-        for col, val in values.items():
-            i = orig_data.column_names.index(col)
-            if i < 0:
-                raise ValueError(f"Column {col} does not exist")
-            orig_data = orig_data.set_column(
-                i, col, pa.array([val] * len(orig_data), type=orig_data[col].type)
-            )
-        self.delete(where)
-        self.add(orig_data, mode="append")
+        if values is not None and values_sql is not None:
+            raise ValueError("Only one of values or values_sql can be provided")
+        if values is None and values_sql is None:
+            raise ValueError("Either values or values_sql must be provided")
+
+        if values is not None:
+            values_sql = {k: value_to_sql(v) for k, v in values.items()}
+
+        self.to_lance().update(values_sql, where)
         self._reset_dataset()
+        register_event("update")
 
     def _execute_query(self, query: Query) -> pa.Table:
         ds = self.to_lance()
-        if query.prefilter:
-            for idx in ds.list_indices():
-                if query.vector_column in idx["fields"]:
-                    raise NotImplementedError(
-                        "Prefiltering for indexed vector column is coming soon."
-                    )
         return ds.to_table(
             columns=query.columns,
             filter=query.filter,
@@ -870,6 +987,48 @@ class LanceTable(Table):
             },
         )
 
+    def cleanup_old_versions(
+        self,
+        older_than: Optional[timedelta] = None,
+        *,
+        delete_unverified: bool = False,
+    ) -> CleanupStats:
+        """
+        Clean up old versions of the table, freeing disk space.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        older_than: timedelta, default None
+            The minimum age of the version to delete. If None, then this defaults
+            to two weeks.
+        delete_unverified: bool, default False
+            Because they may be part of an in-progress transaction, files newer
+            than 7 days old are not deleted by default. If you are sure that
+            there are no in-progress transactions, then you can set this to True
+            to delete all files older than `older_than`.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        CleanupStats
+            The stats of the cleanup operation, including how many bytes were
+            freed.
+        """
+        return self.to_lance().cleanup_old_versions(
+            older_than, delete_unverified=delete_unverified
+        )
+
+    def compact_files(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Run the compaction process on the table.
+
+        This can be run after making several small appends to optimize the table
+        for faster reads.
+
+        Arguments are passed onto :meth:`lance.dataset.DatasetOptimizer.compact_files`.
+        For most cases, the default should be fine.
+        """
+        return self.to_lance().optimize.compact_files(*args, **kwargs)
+
 
 def _sanitize_schema(
     data: pa.Table,
@@ -955,7 +1114,8 @@ def _sanitize_vector_column(
     # ChunkedArray is annoying to work with, so we combine chunks here
     vec_arr = data[vector_column_name].combine_chunks()
     if pa.types.is_list(data[vector_column_name].type):
-        # if it's a variable size list array we make sure the dimensions are all the same
+        # if it's a variable size list array,
+        # we make sure the dimensions are all the same
         has_jagged_ndims = len(vec_arr.values) % len(data) != 0
         if has_jagged_ndims:
             data = _sanitize_jagged(

python/lancedb/util.py

@@ -12,9 +12,12 @@
 #  limitations under the License.
 
 import os
+from datetime import date, datetime
+from functools import singledispatch
 from typing import Tuple
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
+import numpy as np
 import pyarrow.fs as pa_fs
 
 
@@ -88,3 +91,53 @@ def safe_import_pandas():
         return pd
     except ImportError:
         return None
+
+
+@singledispatch
+def value_to_sql(value):
+    raise NotImplementedError("SQL conversion is not implemented for this type")
+
+
+@value_to_sql.register(str)
+def _(value: str):
+    return f"'{value}'"
+
+
+@value_to_sql.register(int)
+def _(value: int):
+    return str(value)
+
+
+@value_to_sql.register(float)
+def _(value: float):
+    return str(value)
+
+
+@value_to_sql.register(bool)
+def _(value: bool):
+    return str(value).upper()
+
+
+@value_to_sql.register(type(None))
+def _(value: type(None)):
+    return "NULL"
+
+
+@value_to_sql.register(datetime)
+def _(value: datetime):
+    return f"'{value.isoformat()}'"
+
+
+@value_to_sql.register(date)
+def _(value: date):
+    return f"'{value.isoformat()}'"
+
+
+@value_to_sql.register(list)
+def _(value: list):
+    return "[" + ", ".join(map(value_to_sql, value)) + "]"
+
+
+@value_to_sql.register(np.ndarray)
+def _(value: np.ndarray):
+    return value_to_sql(value.tolist())

python/lancedb/utils/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#  Copyright 2023 LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+from .config import Config
+
+CONFIG = Config()

python/lancedb/utils/config.py

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+#  Copyright 2023 LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+
+import copy
+import hashlib
+import os
+import platform
+import uuid
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from .general import LOGGER, is_dir_writeable, yaml_load, yaml_save
+
+
+def get_user_config_dir(sub_dir="lancedb"):
+    """
+    Get the user config directory.
+
+    Args:
+        sub_dir (str): The name of the subdirectory to create.
+
+    Returns:
+        (Path): The path to the user config directory.
+    """
+    # Return the appropriate config directory for each operating system
+    if platform.system() == "Windows":
+        path = Path.home() / "AppData" / "Roaming" / sub_dir
+    elif platform.system() == "Darwin":
+        path = Path.home() / "Library" / "Application Support" / sub_dir
+    elif platform.system() == "Linux":
+        path = Path.home() / ".config" / sub_dir
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"Unsupported operating system: {platform.system()}")
+
+    # GCP and AWS lambda fix, only /tmp is writeable
+    if not is_dir_writeable(path.parent):
+        LOGGER.warning(
+            f"WARNING ⚠️ user config directory '{path}' is not writeable, defaulting to '/tmp' or CWD."
+            "Alternatively you can define a LANCEDB_CONFIG_DIR environment variable for this path."
+        )
+        path = (
+            Path("/tmp") / sub_dir
+            if is_dir_writeable("/tmp")
+            else Path().cwd() / sub_dir
+        )
+
+    # Create the subdirectory if it does not exist
+    path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    return path
+
+
+USER_CONFIG_DIR = Path(os.getenv("LANCEDB_CONFIG_DIR") or get_user_config_dir())
+CONFIG_FILE = USER_CONFIG_DIR / "config.yaml"
+
+
+class Config(dict):
+    """
+    Manages lancedb config stored in a YAML file.
+
+    Args:
+        file (str | Path): Path to the lancedb config YAML file. Default is USER_CONFIG_DIR / 'config.yaml'.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, file=CONFIG_FILE):
+        self.file = Path(file)
+        self.defaults = {  # Default global config values
+            "diagnostics": True,
+            "uuid": hashlib.sha256(str(uuid.getnode()).encode()).hexdigest(),
+        }
+
+        super().__init__(copy.deepcopy(self.defaults))
+
+        if not self.file.exists():
+            self.save()
+
+        self.load()
+        correct_keys = self.keys() == self.defaults.keys()
+        correct_types = all(
+            type(a) is type(b) for a, b in zip(self.values(), self.defaults.values())
+        )
+        if not (correct_keys and correct_types):
+            LOGGER.warning(
+                "WARNING ⚠️ LanceDB settings reset to default values. This may be due to a possible problem "
+                "with your settings or a recent package update. "
+                f"\nView settings & usage with 'lancedb settings' or at '{self.file}'"
+            )
+            self.reset()
+
+    def load(self):
+        """Loads settings from the YAML file."""
+        super().update(yaml_load(self.file))
+
+    def save(self):
+        """Saves the current settings to the YAML file."""
+        yaml_save(self.file, dict(self))
+
+    def update(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Updates a setting value in the current settings."""
+        super().update(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.save()
+
+    def reset(self):
+        """Resets the settings to default and saves them."""
+        self.clear()
+        self.update(self.defaults)
+        self.save()

python/lancedb/utils/events.py

@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+#  Copyright 2023 LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+
+import datetime
+import importlib.metadata
+import platform
+import random
+import sys
+import time
+
+from lancedb.utils import CONFIG
+from lancedb.utils.general import TryExcept
+
+from .general import (
+    PLATFORMS,
+    get_git_origin_url,
+    is_git_dir,
+    is_github_actions_ci,
+    is_online,
+    is_pip_package,
+    is_pytest_running,
+    threaded_request,
+)
+
+
+class _Events:
+    """
+    A class for collecting anonymous event analytics. Event analytics are enabled when ``diagnostics=True`` in config and
+    disabled when ``diagnostics=False``.
+
+    You can enable or disable diagnostics by running ``lancedb diagnostics --enabled`` or ``lancedb diagnostics --disabled``.
+
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    url : str
+        The URL to send anonymous events.
+    rate_limit : float
+        The rate limit in seconds for sending events.
+    metadata : dict
+        A dictionary containing metadata about the environment.
+    enabled : bool
+        A flag to enable or disable Events based on certain conditions.
+    """
+
+    _instance = None
+
+    url = "https://app.posthog.com/capture/"
+    headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
+    api_key = "phc_oENDjGgHtmIDrV6puUiFem2RB4JA8gGWulfdulmMdZP"
+    # This api-key is write only and is safe to expose in the codebase.
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        """
+        Initializes the Events object with default values for events, rate_limit, and metadata.
+        """
+        self.events = []  # events list
+        self.throttled_event_names = ["search_table"]
+        self.throttled_events = set()
+        self.max_events = 5  # max events to store in memory
+        self.rate_limit = 60.0 * 5  # rate limit (seconds)
+        self.time = 0.0
+
+        if is_git_dir():
+            install = "git"
+        elif is_pip_package():
+            install = "pip"
+        else:
+            install = "other"
+        self.metadata = {
+            "cli": sys.argv[0],
+            "install": install,
+            "python": ".".join(platform.python_version_tuple()[:2]),
+            "version": importlib.metadata.version("lancedb"),
+            "platforms": PLATFORMS,
+            "session_id": round(random.random() * 1e15),
+            # 'engagement_time_msec': 1000 # TODO: In future we might be interested in this metric
+        }
+
+        TESTS_RUNNING = is_pytest_running() or is_github_actions_ci()
+        ONLINE = is_online()
+        self.enabled = (
+            CONFIG["diagnostics"]
+            and not TESTS_RUNNING
+            and ONLINE
+            and (
+                is_pip_package()
+                or get_git_origin_url() == "https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb.git"
+            )
+        )
+
+    def __call__(self, event_name, params={}):
+        """
+        Attempts to add a new event to the events list and send events if the rate limit is reached.
+
+        Args
+        ----
+        event_name : str
+            The name of the event to be logged.
+        params : dict, optional
+            A dictionary of additional parameters to be logged with the event.
+        """
+        ### NOTE: We might need a way to tag a session with a label to check usage from a source. Setting label should be exposed to the user.
+        if not self.enabled:
+            return
+        if (
+            len(self.events) < self.max_events
+        ):  # Events list limited to self.max_events (drop any events past this)
+            params.update(self.metadata)
+            event = {
+                "event": event_name,
+                "properties": params,
+                "timestamp": datetime.datetime.now(
+                    tz=datetime.timezone.utc
+                ).isoformat(),
+                "distinct_id": CONFIG["uuid"],
+            }
+            if event_name not in self.throttled_event_names:
+                self.events.append(event)
+            elif event_name not in self.throttled_events:
+                self.throttled_events.add(event_name)
+                self.events.append(event)
+
+        # Check rate limit
+        t = time.time()
+        if (t - self.time) < self.rate_limit:
+            return
+        # Time is over rate limiter, send now
+        data = {
+            "api_key": self.api_key,
+            "distinct_id": CONFIG["uuid"],  # posthog needs this to accepts the event
+            "batch": self.events,
+        }
+        # POST equivalent to requests.post(self.url, json=data).
+        # threaded request is used to avoid blocking, retries are disabled, and verbose is disabled
+        # to avoid any possible disruption in the console.
+        threaded_request(
+            method="post",
+            url=self.url,
+            headers=self.headers,
+            json=data,
+            retry=0,
+            verbose=False,
+        )
+
+        # Flush & Reset
+        self.events = []
+        self.throttled_events = set()
+        self.time = t
+
+
+@TryExcept(verbose=False)
+def register_event(name: str, **kwargs):
+    if _Events._instance is None:
+        _Events._instance = _Events()
+
+    _Events._instance(name, **kwargs)

python/lancedb/utils/general.py

@@ -0,0 +1,445 @@
+#  Copyright 2023 LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+
+import contextlib
+import importlib
+import logging.config
+import os
+import platform
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import threading
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Union
+
+import requests
+import yaml
+
+LOGGING_NAME = "lancedb"
+VERBOSE = (
+    str(os.getenv("LANCEDB_VERBOSE", True)).lower() == "true"
+)  # global verbose mode
+
+
+def set_logging(name=LOGGING_NAME, verbose=True):
+    """Sets up logging for the given name.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    name : str, optional
+        The name of the logger. Default is 'lancedb'.
+    verbose : bool, optional
+        Whether to enable verbose logging. Default is True.
+    """
+
+    rank = int(os.getenv("RANK", -1))  # rank in world for Multi-GPU trainings
+    level = logging.INFO if verbose and rank in {-1, 0} else logging.ERROR
+    logging.config.dictConfig(
+        {
+            "version": 1,
+            "disable_existing_loggers": False,
+            "formatters": {name: {"format": "%(message)s"}},
+            "handlers": {
+                name: {
+                    "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
+                    "formatter": name,
+                    "level": level,
+                }
+            },
+            "loggers": {name: {"level": level, "handlers": [name], "propagate": False}},
+        }
+    )
+
+
+set_logging(LOGGING_NAME, verbose=VERBOSE)
+LOGGER = logging.getLogger(LOGGING_NAME)
+
+
+def is_pip_package(filepath: str = __name__) -> bool:
+    """Determines if the file at the given filepath is part of a pip package.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    filepath : str, optional
+        The filepath to check. Default is the current file.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+        True if the file is part of a pip package, False otherwise.
+    """
+    # Get the spec for the module
+    spec = importlib.util.find_spec(filepath)
+
+    # Return whether the spec is not None and the origin is not None (indicating it is a package)
+    return spec is not None and spec.origin is not None
+
+
+def is_pytest_running():
+    """Determines whether pytest is currently running or not.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+        True if pytest is running, False otherwise.
+    """
+    return (
+        ("PYTEST_CURRENT_TEST" in os.environ)
+        or ("pytest" in sys.modules)
+        or ("pytest" in Path(sys.argv[0]).stem)
+    )
+
+
+def is_github_actions_ci() -> bool:
+    """
+    Determine if the current environment is a GitHub Actions CI Python runner.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+        True if the current environment is a GitHub Actions CI Python runner, False otherwise.
+    """
+
+    return (
+        "GITHUB_ACTIONS" in os.environ
+        and "RUNNER_OS" in os.environ
+        and "RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE" in os.environ
+    )
+
+
+def is_git_dir():
+    """
+    Determines whether the current file is part of a git repository.
+    If the current file is not part of a git repository, returns None.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+        True if current file is part of a git repository.
+    """
+    return get_git_dir() is not None
+
+
+def is_online() -> bool:
+    """
+    Check internet connectivity by attempting to connect to a known online host.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+        True if connection is successful, False otherwise.
+    """
+    import socket
+
+    for host in "1.1.1.1", "8.8.8.8", "223.5.5.5":  # Cloudflare, Google, AliDNS:
+        try:
+            test_connection = socket.create_connection(address=(host, 53), timeout=2)
+        except (socket.timeout, socket.gaierror, OSError):
+            continue
+        else:
+            # If the connection was successful, close it to avoid a ResourceWarning
+            test_connection.close()
+            return True
+    return False
+
+
+def is_dir_writeable(dir_path: Union[str, Path]) -> bool:
+    """Check if a directory is writeable.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    dir_path : Union[str, Path]
+        The path to the directory.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+        True if the directory is writeable, False otherwise.
+    """
+    return os.access(str(dir_path), os.W_OK)
+
+
+def is_colab():
+    """Check if the current script is running inside a Google Colab notebook.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+        True if running inside a Colab notebook, False otherwise.
+    """
+    return "COLAB_RELEASE_TAG" in os.environ or "COLAB_BACKEND_VERSION" in os.environ
+
+
+def is_kaggle():
+    """Check if the current script is running inside a Kaggle kernel.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+        True if running inside a Kaggle kernel, False otherwise.
+    """
+    return (
+        os.environ.get("PWD") == "/kaggle/working"
+        and os.environ.get("KAGGLE_URL_BASE") == "https://www.kaggle.com"
+    )
+
+
+def is_jupyter():
+    """Check if the current script is running inside a Jupyter Notebook.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+        True if running inside a Jupyter Notebook, False otherwise.
+    """
+    with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
+        from IPython import get_ipython
+
+        return get_ipython() is not None
+    return False
+
+
+def is_docker() -> bool:
+    """Determine if the script is running inside a Docker container.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    bool
+        True if the script is running inside a Docker container, False otherwise.
+    """
+    file = Path("/proc/self/cgroup")
+    if file.exists():
+        with open(file) as f:
+            return "docker" in f.read()
+    else:
+        return False
+
+
+def get_git_dir():
+    """Determine whether the current file is part of a git repository and if so, returns the repository root directory.
+    If the current file is not part of a git repository, returns None.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    Path | None
+        Git root directory if found or None if not found.
+    """
+    for d in Path(__file__).parents:
+        if (d / ".git").is_dir():
+            return d
+
+
+def get_git_origin_url():
+    """Retrieve the origin URL of a git repository.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    str | None
+        The origin URL of the git repository or None if not git directory.
+    """
+    if is_git_dir():
+        with contextlib.suppress(subprocess.CalledProcessError):
+            origin = subprocess.check_output(
+                ["git", "config", "--get", "remote.origin.url"]
+            )
+            return origin.decode().strip()
+
+
+def yaml_save(file="data.yaml", data=None, header=""):
+    """Save YAML data to a file.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    file : str, optional
+        File name, by default 'data.yaml'.
+    data : dict, optional
+        Data to save in YAML format, by default None.
+    header : str, optional
+        YAML header to add, by default "".
+    """
+    if data is None:
+        data = {}
+    file = Path(file)
+    if not file.parent.exists():
+        # Create parent directories if they don't exist
+        file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    # Convert Path objects to strings
+    for k, v in data.items():
+        if isinstance(v, Path):
+            data[k] = str(v)
+
+    # Dump data to file in YAML format
+    with open(file, "w", errors="ignore", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        if header:
+            f.write(header)
+        yaml.safe_dump(data, f, sort_keys=False, allow_unicode=True)
+
+
+def yaml_load(file="data.yaml", append_filename=False):
+    """
+    Load YAML data from a file.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    file : str, optional
+        File name. Default is 'data.yaml'.
+    append_filename : bool, optional
+        Add the YAML filename to the YAML dictionary. Default is False.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    dict
+        YAML data and file name.
+    """
+    assert Path(file).suffix in (
+        ".yaml",
+        ".yml",
+    ), f"Attempting to load non-YAML file {file} with yaml_load()"
+    with open(file, errors="ignore", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        s = f.read()  # string
+
+        # Add YAML filename to dict and return
+        data = (
+            yaml.safe_load(s) or {}
+        )  # always return a dict (yaml.safe_load() may return None for empty files)
+        if append_filename:
+            data["yaml_file"] = str(file)
+        return data
+
+
+def yaml_print(yaml_file: Union[str, Path, dict]) -> None:
+    """
+    Pretty prints a YAML file or a YAML-formatted dictionary.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    yaml_file : Union[str, Path, dict]
+        The file path of the YAML file or a YAML-formatted dictionary.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    None
+    """
+    yaml_dict = (
+        yaml_load(yaml_file) if isinstance(yaml_file, (str, Path)) else yaml_file
+    )
+    dump = yaml.dump(yaml_dict, sort_keys=False, allow_unicode=True)
+    LOGGER.info(f"Printing '{yaml_file}'\n\n{dump}")
+
+
+PLATFORMS = [platform.system()]
+if is_colab():
+    PLATFORMS.append("Colab")
+if is_kaggle():
+    PLATFORMS.append("Kaggle")
+if is_jupyter():
+    PLATFORMS.append("Jupyter")
+if is_docker():
+    PLATFORMS.append("Docker")
+
+PLATFORMS = "|".join(PLATFORMS)
+
+
+class TryExcept(contextlib.ContextDecorator):
+    """
+    TryExcept context manager.
+    Usage: @TryExcept() decorator or 'with TryExcept():' context manager.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, msg="", verbose=True):
+        """
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        msg : str, optional
+            Custom message to display in case of exception, by default "".
+        verbose : bool, optional
+            Whether to display the message, by default True.
+        """
+        self.msg = msg
+        self.verbose = verbose
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        pass
+
+    def __exit__(self, exc_type, value, traceback):
+        if self.verbose and value:
+            LOGGER.info(f"{self.msg}{': ' if self.msg else ''}{value}")
+        return True
+
+
+def threaded_request(
+    method, url, retry=3, timeout=30, thread=True, code=-1, verbose=True, **kwargs
+):
+    """
+    Makes an HTTP request using the 'requests' library, with exponential backoff retries up to a specified timeout.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    method : str
+        The HTTP method to use for the request. Choices are 'post' and 'get'.
+    url : str
+        The URL to make the request to.
+    retry : int, optional
+        Number of retries to attempt before giving up, by default 3.
+    timeout : int, optional
+        Timeout in seconds after which the function will give up retrying, by default 30.
+    thread : bool, optional
+        Whether to execute the request in a separate daemon thread, by default True.
+    code : int, optional
+        An identifier for the request, used for logging purposes, by default -1.
+    verbose : bool, optional
+        A flag to determine whether to print out to console or not, by default True.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    requests.Response
+        The HTTP response object. If the request is executed in a separate thread, returns the thread itself.
+    """
+    retry_codes = ()  # retry only these codes TODO: add codes if needed in future (500, 408)
+
+    @TryExcept(verbose=verbose)
+    def func(method, url, **kwargs):
+        """Make HTTP requests with retries and timeouts, with optional progress tracking."""
+        response = None
+        t0 = time.time()
+        for i in range(retry + 1):
+            if (time.time() - t0) > timeout:
+                break
+            response = requests.request(method, url, **kwargs)
+            if response.status_code < 300:  # good return codes in the 2xx range
+                break
+            try:
+                m = response.json().get("message", "No JSON message.")
+            except AttributeError:
+                m = "Unable to read JSON."
+            if i == 0:
+                if response.status_code in retry_codes:
+                    m += f" Retrying {retry}x for {timeout}s." if retry else ""
+                elif response.status_code == 429:  # rate limit
+                    m = f"Rate limit reached"
+                if verbose:
+                    LOGGER.warning(f"{response.status_code} #{code}")
+                if response.status_code not in retry_codes:
+                    return response
+            time.sleep(2**i)  # exponential standoff
+        return response
+
+    args = method, url
+    if thread:
+        return threading.Thread(
+            target=func, args=args, kwargs=kwargs, daemon=True
+        ).start()
+    else:
+        return func(*args, **kwargs)

python/lancedb/utils/sentry_log.py

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+#  Copyright 2023 LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+
+import bdb
+import importlib.metadata
+import logging
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from lancedb.utils import CONFIG
+
+from .general import (
+    PLATFORMS,
+    TryExcept,
+    is_git_dir,
+    is_github_actions_ci,
+    is_online,
+    is_pip_package,
+    is_pytest_running,
+)
+
+
+@TryExcept(verbose=False)
+def set_sentry():
+    """
+    Initialize the Sentry SDK for error tracking and reporting. Only used if sentry_sdk package is installed and
+    sync=True in settings. Run 'lancedb settings' to see and update settings YAML file.
+
+    Conditions required to send errors (ALL conditions must be met or no errors will be reported):
+        - sentry_sdk package is installed
+        - sync=True in  settings
+        - pytest is not running
+        - running in a pip package installation
+        - running in a non-git directory
+        - online environment
+
+    The function also configures Sentry SDK to ignore KeyboardInterrupt and FileNotFoundError
+    exceptions for now.
+
+    Additionally, the function sets custom tags and user information for Sentry events.
+    """
+
+    def before_send(event, hint):
+        """
+        Modify the event before sending it to Sentry based on specific exception types and messages.
+
+        Args:
+            event (dict): The event dictionary containing information about the error.
+            hint (dict): A dictionary containing additional information about the error.
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: The modified event or None if the event should not be sent to Sentry.
+        """
+        if "exc_info" in hint:
+            exc_type, exc_value, tb = hint["exc_info"]
+            ignored_errors = ["out of memory", "no space left on device", "testing"]
+            if any(error in str(exc_value).lower() for error in ignored_errors):
+                return None
+
+        if is_git_dir():
+            install = "git"
+        elif is_pip_package():
+            install = "pip"
+        else:
+            install = "other"
+
+        event["tags"] = {
+            "sys_argv": sys.argv[0],
+            "sys_argv_name": Path(sys.argv[0]).name,
+            "install": install,
+            "platforms": PLATFORMS,
+            "version": importlib.metadata.version("lancedb"),
+        }
+        return event
+
+    TESTS_RUNNING = is_pytest_running() or is_github_actions_ci()
+    ONLINE = is_online()
+    if CONFIG["diagnostics"] and not TESTS_RUNNING and ONLINE and is_pip_package():
+        # and not is_git_dir(): # not running inside a git dir. Maybe too restrictive?
+
+        # If sentry_sdk package is not installed then return and do not use Sentry
+        try:
+            import sentry_sdk  # noqa
+        except ImportError:
+            return
+
+        sentry_sdk.init(
+            dsn="https://c63ef8c64e05d1aa1a96513361f3ca2f@o4505950840946688.ingest.sentry.io/4505950933614592",
+            debug=False,
+            include_local_variables=False,
+            traces_sample_rate=0.5,
+            environment="production",  # 'dev' or 'production'
+            before_send=before_send,
+            ignore_errors=[KeyboardInterrupt, FileNotFoundError, bdb.BdbQuit],
+        )
+        sentry_sdk.set_user({"id": CONFIG["uuid"]})  # SHA-256 anonymized UUID hash
+
+        # Disable all sentry logging
+        for logger in "sentry_sdk", "sentry_sdk.errors":
+            logging.getLogger(logger).setLevel(logging.CRITICAL)
+
+
+set_sentry()

python/pyproject.toml

@@ -1,16 +1,21 @@
 [project]
 name = "lancedb"
-version = "0.3.0"
+version = "0.3.6"
 dependencies = [
-    "pylance==0.8.3",
+    "deprecation",
+    "pylance==0.8.21",
     "ratelimiter~=1.0",
     "retry>=0.9.2",
-    "tqdm>=4.1.0",
+    "tqdm>=4.27.0",
     "aiohttp",
     "pydantic>=1.10",
     "attrs>=21.3.0",
     "semver>=3.0",
-    "cachetools"
+    "cachetools",
+    "pyyaml>=6.0",
+    "click>=8.1.7",
+    "requests>=2.31.0",
+    "overrides>=0.7"
 ]
 description = "lancedb"
 authors = [{ name = "LanceDB Devs", email = "dev@lancedb.com" }]
@@ -48,7 +53,10 @@ tests = ["pandas>=1.4", "pytest", "pytest-mock", "pytest-asyncio", "requests"]
 dev = ["ruff", "pre-commit", "black"]
 docs = ["mkdocs", "mkdocs-jupyter", "mkdocs-material", "mkdocstrings[python]"]
 clip = ["torch", "pillow", "open-clip"]
-embeddings = ["openai", "sentence-transformers", "torch", "pillow", "open-clip"]
+embeddings = ["openai", "sentence-transformers", "torch", "pillow", "open-clip-torch", "cohere", "InstructorEmbedding"]
+
+[project.scripts]
+lancedb = "lancedb.cli.cli:cli"
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]
@@ -57,6 +65,9 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 [tool.isort]
 profile = "black"
 
+[tool.ruff]
+select = ["F", "E", "W", "I", "G", "TCH", "PERF"]
+
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 addopts = "--strict-markers"
 markers = [

python/tests/test_cli.py

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+from click.testing import CliRunner
+
+from lancedb.cli.cli import cli
+from lancedb.utils import CONFIG
+
+
+def test_entry():
+    runner = CliRunner()
+    result = runner.invoke(cli)
+    assert result.exit_code == 0  # Main check
+    assert "lancedb" in result.output.lower()  # lazy check
+
+
+def test_diagnostics():
+    runner = CliRunner()
+    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["diagnostics", "--disabled"])
+    assert result.exit_code == 0  # Main check
+    assert CONFIG["diagnostics"] == False
+
+    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["diagnostics", "--enabled"])
+    assert result.exit_code == 0  # Main check
+    assert CONFIG["diagnostics"] == True
+
+
+def test_config():
+    runner = CliRunner()
+    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["config"])
+    assert result.exit_code == 0  # Main check
+    cfg = CONFIG.copy()
+    cfg.pop("uuid")
+    for (
+        item,
+        _,
+    ) in cfg.items():  # check for keys only as formatting is subject to change
+        assert item in result.output

python/tests/test_context.py

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def test_contextualizer(raw_df: pd.DataFrame):
         .stride(3)
         .text_col("token")
         .groupby("document_id")
-        .to_df()["token"]
+        .to_pandas()["token"]
         .to_list()
     )
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def test_contextualizer_with_threshold(raw_df: pd.DataFrame):
         .text_col("token")
         .groupby("document_id")
         .min_window_size(4)
-        .to_df()["token"]
+        .to_pandas()["token"]
         .to_list()
     )
 

python/tests/test_db.py

@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ def test_basic(tmp_path):
             {"vector": [5.9, 26.5], "item": "bar", "price": 20.0},
         ],
     )
-    rs = table.search([100, 100]).limit(1).to_df()
+    rs = table.search([100, 100]).limit(1).to_pandas()
     assert len(rs) == 1
     assert rs["item"].iloc[0] == "bar"
 
-    rs = table.search([100, 100]).where("price < 15").limit(2).to_df()
+    rs = table.search([100, 100]).where("price < 15").limit(2).to_pandas()
     assert len(rs) == 1
     assert rs["item"].iloc[0] == "foo"
 
@@ -62,11 +62,11 @@ def test_ingest_pd(tmp_path):
         }
     )
     table = db.create_table("test", data=data)
-    rs = table.search([100, 100]).limit(1).to_df()
+    rs = table.search([100, 100]).limit(1).to_pandas()
     assert len(rs) == 1
     assert rs["item"].iloc[0] == "bar"
 
-    rs = table.search([100, 100]).where("price < 15").limit(2).to_df()
+    rs = table.search([100, 100]).where("price < 15").limit(2).to_pandas()
     assert len(rs) == 1
     assert rs["item"].iloc[0] == "foo"
 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ def test_ingest_iterator(tmp_path):
                 [
                     PydanticSchema(vector=[3.1, 4.1], item="foo", price=10.0),
                     PydanticSchema(vector=[5.9, 26.5], item="bar", price=20.0),
-                ]
+                ],
                 # TODO: test pydict separately. it is unique column number and names contraint
             ]
 
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ def test_ingest_iterator(tmp_path):
         db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
         tbl = db.create_table("table2", make_batches(), schema=schema, mode="overwrite")
         tbl.to_pandas()
-        assert tbl.search([3.1, 4.1]).limit(1).to_df()["_distance"][0] == 0.0
-        assert tbl.search([5.9, 26.5]).limit(1).to_df()["_distance"][0] == 0.0
+        assert tbl.search([3.1, 4.1]).limit(1).to_pandas()["_distance"][0] == 0.0
+        assert tbl.search([5.9, 26.5]).limit(1).to_pandas()["_distance"][0] == 0.0
         tbl_len = len(tbl)
         tbl.add(make_batches())
         assert tbl_len == 50
@@ -150,6 +150,21 @@ def test_ingest_iterator(tmp_path):
     run_tests(PydanticSchema)
 
 
+def test_table_names(tmp_path):
+    db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
+    data = pd.DataFrame(
+        {
+            "vector": [[3.1, 4.1], [5.9, 26.5]],
+            "item": ["foo", "bar"],
+            "price": [10.0, 20.0],
+        }
+    )
+    db.create_table("test2", data=data)
+    db.create_table("test1", data=data)
+    db.create_table("test3", data=data)
+    assert db.table_names() == ["test1", "test2", "test3"]
+
+
 def test_create_mode(tmp_path):
     db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
     data = pd.DataFrame(
@@ -286,4 +301,29 @@ def test_replace_index(tmp_path):
         num_partitions=2,
         num_sub_vectors=4,
         replace=True,
+        index_cache_size=10,
     )
+
+
+def test_prefilter_with_index(tmp_path):
+    db = lancedb.connect(uri=tmp_path)
+    data = [
+        {"vector": np.random.rand(128), "item": "foo", "price": float(i)}
+        for i in range(1000)
+    ]
+    sample_key = data[100]["vector"]
+    table = db.create_table(
+        "test",
+        data,
+    )
+    table.create_index(
+        num_partitions=2,
+        num_sub_vectors=4,
+    )
+    table = (
+        table.search(sample_key)
+        .where("price == 500", prefilter=True)
+        .limit(5)
+        .to_arrow()
+    )
+    assert table.num_rows == 1

python/tests/test_e2e_remote_db.py

@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ from lancedb import LanceDBConnection
 def test_against_local_server():
     conn = LanceDBConnection("lancedb+http://localhost:10024")
     table = conn.open_table("sift1m_ivf1024_pq16")
-    df = table.search(np.random.rand(128)).to_df()
+    df = table.search(np.random.rand(128)).to_pandas()
     assert len(df) == 10

python/tests/test_embeddings.py

@@ -15,13 +15,16 @@ import sys
 import lance
 import numpy as np
 import pyarrow as pa
+import pytest
 
-from lancedb.conftest import MockTextEmbeddingFunction
+import lancedb
+from lancedb.conftest import MockRateLimitedEmbeddingFunction, MockTextEmbeddingFunction
 from lancedb.embeddings import (
     EmbeddingFunctionConfig,
     EmbeddingFunctionRegistry,
     with_embeddings,
 )
+from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
 
 
 def mock_embed_func(input_data):
@@ -83,3 +86,29 @@ def test_embedding_function(tmp_path):
     expected = func.compute_query_embeddings("hello world")
 
     assert np.allclose(actual, expected)
+
+
+def test_embedding_function_rate_limit(tmp_path):
+    def _get_schema_from_model(model):
+        class Schema(LanceModel):
+            text: str = model.SourceField()
+            vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
+
+        return Schema
+
+    db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
+    registry = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance()
+    model = registry.get("test-rate-limited").create(max_retries=0)
+    schema = _get_schema_from_model(model)
+    table = db.create_table("test", schema=schema, mode="overwrite")
+    table.add([{"text": "hello world"}])
+    with pytest.raises(Exception):
+        table.add([{"text": "hello world"}])
+    assert len(table) == 1
+
+    model = registry.get("test-rate-limited").create()
+    schema = _get_schema_from_model(model)
+    table = db.create_table("test", schema=schema, mode="overwrite")
+    table.add([{"text": "hello world"}])
+    table.add([{"text": "hello world"}])
+    assert len(table) == 2

python/tests/test_embeddings_slow.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 #  limitations under the License.
 import io
+import os
 
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ import pytest
 import requests
 
 import lancedb
-from lancedb.embeddings import EmbeddingFunctionRegistry
+from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
 from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
 
 # These are integration tests for embedding functions.
@@ -30,12 +31,15 @@ from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("alias", ["sentence-transformers", "openai"])
 def test_sentence_transformer(alias, tmp_path):
     db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
-    registry = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance()
-    func = registry.get(alias).create()
+    registry = get_registry()
+    func = registry.get(alias).create(max_retries=0)
+    func2 = registry.get(alias).create(max_retries=0)
 
     class Words(LanceModel):
         text: str = func.SourceField()
+        text2: str = func2.SourceField()
         vector: Vector(func.ndims()) = func.VectorField()
+        vector2: Vector(func2.ndims()) = func2.VectorField()
 
     table = db.create_table("words", schema=Words)
     table.add(
@@ -49,7 +53,16 @@ def test_sentence_transformer(alias, tmp_path):
                     "foo",
                     "bar",
                     "baz",
-                ]
+                ],
+                "text2": [
+                    "to be or not to be",
+                    "that is the question",
+                    "for whether tis nobler",
+                    "in the mind to suffer",
+                    "the slings and arrows",
+                    "of outrageous fortune",
+                    "or to take arms",
+                ],
             }
         )
     )
@@ -61,6 +74,13 @@ def test_sentence_transformer(alias, tmp_path):
     expected = table.search(vec).limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]
     assert actual.text == expected.text
     assert actual.text == "hello world"
+    assert not np.allclose(actual.vector, actual.vector2)
+
+    actual = (
+        table.search(query, vector_column_name="vector2").limit(1).to_pydantic(Words)[0]
+    )
+    assert actual.text != "hello world"
+    assert not np.allclose(actual.vector, actual.vector2)
 
 
 @pytest.mark.slow
@@ -68,7 +88,7 @@ def test_openclip(tmp_path):
     from PIL import Image
 
     db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
-    registry = EmbeddingFunctionRegistry.get_instance()
+    registry = get_registry()
     func = registry.get("open-clip").create()
 
     class Images(LanceModel):
@@ -123,3 +143,42 @@ def test_openclip(tmp_path):
         arrow_table["vector"].combine_chunks().values.to_numpy(),
         arrow_table["vec_from_bytes"].combine_chunks().values.to_numpy(),
     )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.slow
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    os.environ.get("COHERE_API_KEY") is None, reason="COHERE_API_KEY not set"
+)  # also skip if cohere not installed
+def test_cohere_embedding_function():
+    cohere = (
+        get_registry()
+        .get("cohere")
+        .create(name="embed-multilingual-v2.0", max_retries=0)
+    )
+
+    class TextModel(LanceModel):
+        text: str = cohere.SourceField()
+        vector: Vector(cohere.ndims()) = cohere.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)
+    assert len(tbl.to_pandas()["vector"][0]) == cohere.ndims()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.slow
+def test_instructor_embedding(tmp_path):
+    model = get_registry().get("instructor").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)
+    assert len(tbl.to_pandas()["vector"][0]) == model.ndims()

python/tests/test_fts.py

@@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ def test_search_index(tmp_path, table):
 
 def test_create_index_from_table(tmp_path, table):
     table.create_fts_index("text")
-    df = table.search("puppy").limit(10).select(["text"]).to_df()
+    df = table.search("puppy").limit(10).select(["text"]).to_pandas()
     assert len(df) == 10
     assert "text" in df.columns
 
 
 def test_create_index_multiple_columns(tmp_path, table):
     table.create_fts_index(["text", "text2"])
-    df = table.search("puppy").limit(10).to_df()
+    df = table.search("puppy").limit(10).to_pandas()
     assert len(df) == 10
     assert "text" in df.columns
     assert "text2" in df.columns
@@ -87,5 +87,5 @@ def test_create_index_multiple_columns(tmp_path, table):
 def test_empty_rs(tmp_path, table, mocker):
     table.create_fts_index(["text", "text2"])
     mocker.patch("lancedb.fts.search_index", return_value=([], []))
-    df = table.search("puppy").limit(10).to_df()
+    df = table.search("puppy").limit(10).to_pandas()
     assert len(df) == 0

python/tests/test_io.py

@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ def test_s3_io():
             {"vector": [5.9, 26.5], "item": "bar", "price": 20.0},
         ],
     )
-    rs = table.search([100, 100]).limit(1).to_df()
+    rs = table.search([100, 100]).limit(1).to_pandas()
     assert len(rs) == 1
     assert rs["item"].iloc[0] == "bar"
 
-    rs = table.search([100, 100]).where("price < 15").limit(2).to_df()
+    rs = table.search([100, 100]).where("price < 15").limit(2).to_pandas()
     assert len(rs) == 1
     assert rs["item"].iloc[0] == "foo"
 

python/tests/test_pydantic.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 import json
 import sys
+from datetime import date, datetime
 from typing import List, Optional
 
 import pyarrow as pa
@@ -40,10 +41,18 @@ def test_pydantic_to_arrow():
         li: List[int]
         opt: Optional[str] = None
         st: StructModel
+        dt: date
+        dtt: datetime
         # d: dict
 
     m = TestModel(
-        id=1, s="hello", vec=[1.0, 2.0, 3.0], li=[2, 3, 4], st=StructModel(a="a", b=1.0)
+        id=1,
+        s="hello",
+        vec=[1.0, 2.0, 3.0],
+        li=[2, 3, 4],
+        st=StructModel(a="a", b=1.0),
+        dt=date.today(),
+        dtt=datetime.now(),
     )
 
     schema = pydantic_to_schema(TestModel)
@@ -62,6 +71,8 @@ def test_pydantic_to_arrow():
                 ),
                 False,
             ),
+            pa.field("dt", pa.date32(), False),
+            pa.field("dtt", pa.timestamp("us"), False),
         ]
     )
     assert schema == expect_schema
@@ -79,10 +90,18 @@ def test_pydantic_to_arrow_py38():
         li: List[int]
         opt: Optional[str] = None
         st: StructModel
+        dt: date
+        dtt: datetime
         # d: dict
 
     m = TestModel(
-        id=1, s="hello", vec=[1.0, 2.0, 3.0], li=[2, 3, 4], st=StructModel(a="a", b=1.0)
+        id=1,
+        s="hello",
+        vec=[1.0, 2.0, 3.0],
+        li=[2, 3, 4],
+        st=StructModel(a="a", b=1.0),
+        dt=date.today(),
+        dtt=datetime.now(),
     )
 
     schema = pydantic_to_schema(TestModel)
@@ -101,6 +120,8 @@ def test_pydantic_to_arrow_py38():
                 ),
                 False,
             ),
+            pa.field("dt", pa.date32(), False),
+            pa.field("dtt", pa.timestamp("us"), False),
         ]
     )
     assert schema == expect_schema

python/tests/test_query.py

@@ -85,17 +85,20 @@ def test_cast(table):
 
 
 def test_query_builder(table):
-    df = (
-        LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, [0, 0], "vector").limit(1).select(["id"]).to_df()
+    rs = (
+        LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, [0, 0], "vector")
+        .limit(1)
+        .select(["id"])
+        .to_list()
     )
-    assert df["id"].values[0] == 1
-    assert all(df["vector"].values[0] == [1, 2])
+    assert rs[0]["id"] == 1
+    assert all(np.array(rs[0]["vector"]) == [1, 2])
 
 
 def test_query_builder_with_filter(table):
-    df = LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, [0, 0], "vector").where("id = 2").to_df()
-    assert df["id"].values[0] == 2
-    assert all(df["vector"].values[0] == [3, 4])
+    rs = LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, [0, 0], "vector").where("id = 2").to_list()
+    assert rs[0]["id"] == 2
+    assert all(np.array(rs[0]["vector"]) == [3, 4])
 
 
 def test_query_builder_with_prefilter(table):
@@ -103,7 +106,7 @@ def test_query_builder_with_prefilter(table):
         LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, [0, 0], "vector")
         .where("id = 2")
         .limit(1)
-        .to_df()
+        .to_pandas()
     )
     assert len(df) == 0
 
@@ -111,7 +114,7 @@ def test_query_builder_with_prefilter(table):
         LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, [0, 0], "vector")
         .where("id = 2", prefilter=True)
         .limit(1)
-        .to_df()
+        .to_pandas()
     )
     assert df["id"].values[0] == 2
     assert all(df["vector"].values[0] == [3, 4])
@@ -120,9 +123,11 @@ def test_query_builder_with_prefilter(table):
 def test_query_builder_with_metric(table):
     query = [4, 8]
     vector_column_name = "vector"
-    df_default = LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, query, vector_column_name).to_df()
+    df_default = LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, query, vector_column_name).to_pandas()
     df_l2 = (
-        LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, query, vector_column_name).metric("L2").to_df()
+        LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, query, vector_column_name)
+        .metric("L2")
+        .to_pandas()
     )
     tm.assert_frame_equal(df_default, df_l2)
 
@@ -130,7 +135,7 @@ def test_query_builder_with_metric(table):
         LanceVectorQueryBuilder(table, query, vector_column_name)
         .metric("cosine")
         .limit(1)
-        .to_df()
+        .to_pandas()
     )
     assert df_cosine._distance[0] == pytest.approx(
         cosine_distance(query, df_cosine.vector[0]),

python/tests/test_remote_client.py

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ async def test_e2e_with_mock_server():
                     columns=["id", "vector"],
                 ),
             )
-        ).to_df()
+        ).to_pandas()
 
         assert "vector" in df.columns
         assert "id" in df.columns

python/tests/test_remote_db.py

@@ -26,10 +26,13 @@ class FakeLanceDBClient:
         t = pa.schema([]).empty_table()
         return VectorQueryResult(t)
 
+    async def post(self, path: str):
+        pass
+
 
 def test_remote_db():
     conn = lancedb.connect("db://client-will-be-injected", api_key="fake")
     setattr(conn, "_client", FakeLanceDBClient())
 
     table = conn["test"]
-    table.search([1.0, 2.0]).to_df()
+    table.search([1.0, 2.0]).to_pandas()

python/tests/test_table.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #  limitations under the License.
 
 import functools
+from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import List
 from unittest.mock import PropertyMock, patch
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ import lance
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
 import pyarrow as pa
+from pydantic import BaseModel
 import pytest
 
 from lancedb.conftest import MockTextEmbeddingFunction
@@ -140,14 +142,32 @@ def test_add(db):
 
 
 def test_add_pydantic_model(db):
-    class TestModel(LanceModel):
-        vector: Vector(16)
-        li: List[int]
+    # https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/562
 
-    data = TestModel(vector=list(range(16)), li=[1, 2, 3])
-    table = LanceTable.create(db, "test", data=[data])
-    assert len(table) == 1
-    assert table.schema == TestModel.to_arrow_schema()
+    class Document(BaseModel):
+        content: str
+        source: str
+
+    class LanceSchema(LanceModel):
+        id: str
+        vector: Vector(2)
+        li: List[int]
+        payload: Document
+
+    tbl = LanceTable.create(db, "mytable", schema=LanceSchema, mode="overwrite")
+    assert tbl.schema == LanceSchema.to_arrow_schema()
+
+    # add works
+    expected = LanceSchema(
+        id="id",
+        vector=[0.0, 0.0],
+        li=[1, 2, 3],
+        payload=Document(content="foo", source="bar"),
+    )
+    tbl.add([expected])
+
+    result = tbl.search([0.0, 0.0]).limit(1).to_pydantic(LanceSchema)[0]
+    assert result == expected
 
 
 def _add(table, schema):
@@ -212,6 +232,7 @@ def test_create_index_method():
                 num_sub_vectors=96,
                 vector_column_name="vector",
                 replace=True,
+                index_cache_size=256,
             )
 
             # Check that the _dataset.create_index method was called
@@ -224,6 +245,7 @@ def test_create_index_method():
                 num_sub_vectors=96,
                 replace=True,
                 accelerator=None,
+                index_cache_size=256,
             )
 
 
@@ -345,14 +367,79 @@ def test_update(db):
     assert len(table) == 2
     assert len(table.list_versions()) == 2
     table.update(where="id=0", values={"vector": [1.1, 1.1]})
-    assert len(table.list_versions()) == 4
-    assert table.version == 4
+    assert len(table.list_versions()) == 3
+    assert table.version == 3
     assert len(table) == 2
     v = table.to_arrow()["vector"].combine_chunks()
     v = v.values.to_numpy().reshape(2, 2)
     assert np.allclose(v, np.array([[1.2, 1.9], [1.1, 1.1]]))
 
 
+def test_update_types(db):
+    table = LanceTable.create(
+        db,
+        "my_table",
+        data=[
+            {
+                "id": 0,
+                "str": "foo",
+                "float": 1.1,
+                "timestamp": datetime(2021, 1, 1),
+                "date": date(2021, 1, 1),
+                "vector1": [1.0, 0.0],
+                "vector2": [1.0, 1.0],
+            }
+        ],
+    )
+    # Update with SQL
+    table.update(
+        values_sql=dict(
+            id="1",
+            str="'bar'",
+            float="2.2",
+            timestamp="TIMESTAMP '2021-01-02 00:00:00'",
+            date="DATE '2021-01-02'",
+            vector1="[2.0, 2.0]",
+            vector2="[3.0, 3.0]",
+        )
+    )
+    actual = table.to_arrow().to_pylist()[0]
+    expected = dict(
+        id=1,
+        str="bar",
+        float=2.2,
+        timestamp=datetime(2021, 1, 2),
+        date=date(2021, 1, 2),
+        vector1=[2.0, 2.0],
+        vector2=[3.0, 3.0],
+    )
+    assert actual == expected
+
+    # Update with values
+    table.update(
+        values=dict(
+            id=2,
+            str="baz",
+            float=3.3,
+            timestamp=datetime(2021, 1, 3),
+            date=date(2021, 1, 3),
+            vector1=[3.0, 3.0],
+            vector2=np.array([4.0, 4.0]),
+        )
+    )
+    actual = table.to_arrow().to_pylist()[0]
+    expected = dict(
+        id=2,
+        str="baz",
+        float=3.3,
+        timestamp=datetime(2021, 1, 3),
+        date=date(2021, 1, 3),
+        vector1=[3.0, 3.0],
+        vector2=[4.0, 4.0],
+    )
+    assert actual == expected
+
+
 def test_create_with_embedding_function(db):
     class MyTable(LanceModel):
         text: str
@@ -427,8 +514,8 @@ def test_multiple_vector_columns(db):
     table.add(df)
 
     q = np.random.randn(10)
-    result1 = table.search(q, vector_column_name="vector1").limit(1).to_df()
-    result2 = table.search(q, vector_column_name="vector2").limit(1).to_df()
+    result1 = table.search(q, vector_column_name="vector1").limit(1).to_pandas()
+    result2 = table.search(q, vector_column_name="vector2").limit(1).to_pandas()
 
     assert result1["text"].iloc[0] != result2["text"].iloc[0]
 
@@ -439,6 +526,35 @@ def test_empty_query(db):
         "my_table",
         data=[{"text": "foo", "id": 0}, {"text": "bar", "id": 1}],
     )
-    df = table.search().select(["id"]).where("text='bar'").limit(1).to_df()
+    df = table.search().select(["id"]).where("text='bar'").limit(1).to_pandas()
     val = df.id.iloc[0]
     assert val == 1
+
+
+def test_compact_cleanup(db):
+    table = LanceTable.create(
+        db,
+        "my_table",
+        data=[{"text": "foo", "id": 0}, {"text": "bar", "id": 1}],
+    )
+
+    table.add([{"text": "baz", "id": 2}])
+    assert len(table) == 3
+    assert table.version == 3
+
+    stats = table.compact_files()
+    assert len(table) == 3
+    # Compact_files bump 2 versions.
+    assert table.version == 5
+    assert stats.fragments_removed > 0
+    assert stats.fragments_added == 1
+
+    stats = table.cleanup_old_versions()
+    assert stats.bytes_removed == 0
+
+    stats = table.cleanup_old_versions(older_than=timedelta(0), delete_unverified=True)
+    assert stats.bytes_removed > 0
+    assert table.version == 5
+
+    with pytest.raises(Exception, match="Version 3 no longer exists"):
+        table.checkout(3)

python/tests/test_telemetry.py

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+import json
+
+import pytest
+
+import lancedb
+from lancedb.utils.events import _Events
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def request_log_path(tmp_path):
+    return tmp_path / "request.json"
+
+
+def mock_register_event(name: str, **kwargs):
+    if _Events._instance is None:
+        _Events._instance = _Events()
+
+    _Events._instance.enabled = True
+    _Events._instance.rate_limit = 0
+    _Events._instance(name, **kwargs)
+
+
+def test_event_reporting(monkeypatch, request_log_path, tmp_path) -> None:
+    def mock_request(**kwargs):
+        json_data = kwargs.get("json", {})
+        with open(request_log_path, "w") as f:
+            json.dump(json_data, f)
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        lancedb.table, "register_event", mock_register_event
+    )  # Force enable registering events and strip exception handling
+    monkeypatch.setattr(lancedb.utils.events, "threaded_request", mock_request)
+
+    db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
+    db.create_table(
+        "test",
+        data=[
+            {"vector": [3.1, 4.1], "item": "foo", "price": 10.0},
+            {"vector": [5.9, 26.5], "item": "bar", "price": 20.0},
+        ],
+        mode="overwrite",
+    )
+
+    assert request_log_path.exists()  # test if event was registered
+
+    with open(request_log_path, "r") as f:
+        json_data = json.load(f)
+
+    # TODO: don't hardcode these here. Instead create a module level json scehma in lancedb.utils.events for better evolvability
+    batch_keys = ["api_key", "distinct_id", "batch"]
+    event_keys = ["event", "properties", "timestamp", "distinct_id"]
+    property_keys = ["cli", "install", "platforms", "version", "session_id"]
+
+    assert all([key in json_data for key in batch_keys])
+    assert all([key in json_data["batch"][0] for key in event_keys])
+    assert all([key in json_data["batch"][0]["properties"] for key in property_keys])
+
+    # cleanup & reset
+    monkeypatch.undo()
+    _Events._instance = None

rust/ffi/node/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "vectordb-node"
-version = "0.3.0"
+version = "0.3.11"
 description = "Serverless, low-latency vector database for AI applications"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 edition = "2018"
@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ crate-type = ["cdylib"]
 arrow-array = { workspace = true }
 arrow-ipc = { workspace = true }
 arrow-schema = { workspace = true }
+chrono = { workspace = true }
 conv = "0.3.3"
 once_cell = "1"
 futures = "0.3"
 half = { workspace = true }
 lance = { workspace = true }
+lance-index = { workspace = true }
 lance-linalg = { workspace = true }
 vectordb = { path = "../../vectordb" }
 tokio = { version = "1.23", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }