---
title: "Enterprise architecture"
sidebarTitle: "Architecture"
description: "The tiers a deployment runs, and how they scale independently."
icon: cubes
keywords: ["architecture", "control plane", "data plane", "indexer"]
---

<Badge color="red">Enterprise</Badge>

This page describes a LanceDB Enterprise capability. The embedded form
of LanceDB has no server to provide it -- see
[Architecture](/architecture) for what differs between the two.

A deployment separates compute from storage so each scales on its own: table
data and indexes live in object storage, while query serving and background work
run on machines that can be replaced without any of them owning the data.

[Architecture](/architecture) covers this alongside the embedded form, which is
the comparison most readers want first.