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The comparison now lists pages across the documentation, grouped as in the navigation. The page says what Yes, No and Varies mean, that pages spanning several features are left out, and that the SQL row stands for the SQL reference.
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---
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title: "OSS and Enterprise"
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sidebarTitle: "OSS and Enterprise"
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description: "LanceDB OSS and LanceDB Enterprise: what each one is, and which features each one has."
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icon: compass
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keywords: ["oss", "enterprise", "embedded", "deployment", "availability", "comparison"]
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---
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LanceDB comes in two forms. Both use the same SDKs and the same
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[Lance](/basics/lance) tables, and this documentation covers both.
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- **LanceDB OSS** is a library. It runs inside your process and works on tables
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in a local directory or in object storage, with nothing else running on your
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behalf.
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- **LanceDB Enterprise** is a database service. A `db://` connection sends each
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operation to a deployment, which runs it.
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[Connect to LanceDB](/basics/connect) shows how to start with either.
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## How a page says where it applies {#labels}
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A page that declares its availability opens with a label.
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<Badge color="green">OSS</Badge> and <Badge color="red">Enterprise</Badge> name
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the offerings it applies to, and **varies** marks one where it depends on the
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version or configuration; the sentence after the label says how. A page that
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applies to one offering only also shows that offering's tag in the sidebar.
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Every page stays in the same navigation, whichever offering you use.
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## Feature availability {#availability}
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These are the pages that state where they apply, grouped as in the navigation.
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**Yes** means an offering has what the page describes and **No** that it does
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not; **Varies** means it depends on the version or configuration of a
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deployment, and the summary says on what. The list is not every feature:
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pages that span several, such as overviews and tutorials, are left out, and the
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[SQL](/basics/sql) row stands for the SQL reference, whose pages each say where
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they run.
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{/* availability-comparison */}
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[LanceDB Enterprise](/enterprise) describes what a deployment adds and how the
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two differ in operation, such as scale, caching and maintenance.
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