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title: "LanceDB Enterprise"
sidebarTitle: "Overview"
description: "What a deployment adds over embedded LanceDB."
icon: building
keywords: ["enterprise", "deployment", "cluster"]
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<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.

LanceDB Enterprise runs the lakehouse as a service: a control plane for
configuration, identity and policy; a data plane serving reads and writes; and
indexers building indexes and compacting outside the request path.

What it adds over the embedded form:

| | |
| --- | --- |
| [SQL](/sql) | an Arrow Flight SQL endpoint |
| [Functions](/management/function) | Python running on workers |
| [Jobs](/basics/jobs) | server-side work with ids, status and events |
| [Authorization](/governance/authorization) | per-object grants |
| Scale | a cluster rather than your process |

See [Architecture](/architecture) for the two shapes side by side.