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Jack YeandClaude Sonnet 5 de95ed3f6d docs: overhaul curation, feature engineering, security and deployment guides (#4748)
A broad documentation pass across the areas LanceDB Enterprise and
Embedded
diverge on most:

**Data Curation** -- GPU Function execution, Slurm scheduling (and what
Slurm is, for readers new to it), blob late materialization as its own
page, joins, aggregation/profiling, sampling, near-duplicate detection,
chunking, distributed shuffle, and IVF-partition clustering.

**Feature Engineering** -- computed columns and materialized views,
restructured to lead with the Function-based path and show the SQL form
side by side with Python throughout; a single Auto Refresh page instead
of
duplicating scheduling details on every refresh page; adaptive
execution;
checkpointing; GPU and Slurm placement for refresh workers; a Training
Cache page for the PyTorch data loader's automatic cache benefit.

**Security & Governance** -- an Audit Log reference (schema, access,
grants), Secrets promoted to an ordinary catalog object with their own
SQL
DDL and a vending/rotation guide, and privilege-table fixes verified
against the authorization source.

**Deployment & Maintenance** -- Horizontal Scaling and OpenTelemetry
moved
into a real Deployment area; Automated Cleanup folded into Intelligent
Auto-Maintenance (every other maintenance decision already lived there);
RTE Compaction and Advanced Conflict Resolution documented in depth.

**Landing page** -- the Enterprise feature comparison table reorganized
(several redundant or stale rows removed, several new areas added), and
the
"why Enterprise" bullets replaced with ones tied to a concrete page
(Performance, Scale, Fault tolerance, Multicloud deployment, Simplify
operations) instead of vague promises.

Plus a full pass addressing lancedb-gatekeeper's review: a real
test-safety
bug (a quickstart test could silently overwrite and delete a
deployment's
own `frames` table), a fabricated SQL statement with no backing
implementation, an actual dedup-guarantee bug in `take_row_ids`, and
dozens
of documentation-accuracy fixes verified against source rather than
taken
on faith -- each either fixed, or left with an explicit note on why it
needs a feature or deployment owner's sign-off instead of being guessed
at.

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---
title: OpenAI
sidebarTitle: OpenAI
---
import { PyEmbeddingOpenaiBasic } from '/snippets/integrations.mdx';
LanceDB registers the OpenAI embeddings function in the registry by default, as `openai`. Below are the parameters that you can customize when creating the instances:
| Parameter | Type | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `str` | `"text-embedding-ada-002"` | The name of the model. |
| `dim` | `int` | Model default | Requested output dimensions for models that support shortening embeddings. Required for model names other than the OpenAI ones listed by `model_names()` (for example a model served behind an OpenAI-compatible `base_url`), where it is the model's embedding dimension. Use `func.ndims()` when defining the vector field. |
| `use_azure` | bool | `False` | Set true to use Azure OpenAI SDK |
Set your OpenAI API key before running the example:
<CodeGroup>
```bash Bash icon="terminal"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-api-key"
```
</CodeGroup>
<CodeGroup>
<CodeBlock filename="Python" language="Python" icon="python">
{PyEmbeddingOpenaiBasic}
</CodeBlock>
</CodeGroup>