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## Summary Replaces the generated availability table under **Compare features** on the landing page with a hand-written list of features, grouped by area, with separate Embedded and Enterprise columns. The generated table listed every page that declares `availability`, including overview and basic CRUD pages. Rows such as "Overview" appeared three times without context, and pages like Insert, Update, Database and the integrations showed up as if they were features. | Area | Features | | --- | --- | | Search | Vector, full-text and hybrid search, filtering, reranking, query plans, distributed search | | Indexing | Vector, full-text and scalar indexes | | SQL and curation | SQL, aggregation, sampling, joins, ranking and deduplication, near-duplicate detection, chunking, changes since a version, views | | Feature engineering | Computed columns, materialized views, embedding registry | | Training | PyTorch data loader, permutations, distributed training | | Data management | Branches, compaction and cleanup, background jobs, Real Time engine | | Security | Authentication, authorization | Each ✅/❌ matches the linked page's `availability` on `main`; SQL, which declares none, is Enterprise-only. Functions are left out until it's settled whether they are published. The same list, limited to 1.10 features, is in the Enterprise 1.10 editions in lancedb/docs#398. Checked by assembling the docs site with this change: `mint validate` passes and `mint broken-links --check-anchors --check-redirects` finds no broken links. Vale reports no new warnings. After this merges, the committed `lancedb` skill in lancedb/docs needs a rebuild (`make assemble && make skill`). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LanceDB Documentation
For website guides in docs/web, start with
Documentation in CONTRIBUTING.md. That
covers editing pages, generated examples, previews, availability and drafts.
This page covers the SDK reference in docs/src, built with MkDocs. Its
GitHub Actions workflow builds and deploys on
pushes to main, so it can include unreleased APIs. That is separate from the
release editions of the Mintlify website.
Building the docs
Setup
- Install LanceDB Python. See setup in Python contributing guide.
Run
make developto install the Python package. - Install documentation dependencies. From LanceDB repo root:
pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
Preview the docs
Run these commands from the LanceDB repository root. The subshell changes into
docs to load mkdocs.yml, while leaving your shell in the repository root.
(cd docs && PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs serve)
If you want to just generate the HTML files:
(cd docs && PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs build)
If successful, you should see a docs/site directory in the repository root that
you can verify locally.
Adding examples
To make sure examples are correct, we put examples in test files so they can be run as part of our test suites.
You can see the tests are at:
- Python:
python/python/tests/docs - Typescript:
nodejs/examples/
Checking python examples
cd python
pytest -vv python/tests/docs
Checking typescript examples
The examples depend on @lancedb/lancedb at file:../dist, so the package must be
built before running the tests. This uses pnpm; see the
Typescript contributing guide for the toolchain setup.
pushd nodejs
pnpm install
pnpm build
popd
Then you can run the examples by going to the nodejs/examples directory, which is a
separate pnpm package with its own lockfile:
pushd nodejs/examples
pnpm install
pnpm test
popd
API documentation
Python
The Python API documentation is organized based on the file docs/src/python/python.md.
We manually add entries there so we can control the organization of the reference page.
However, this means any new types must be manually added to the file. No additional
steps are needed to generate the API documentation.
Typescript
The typescript API documentation is generated from the typescript source code using typedoc.
When new APIs are added, you must manually re-run the typedoc command to update the API documentation. The new files should be checked into the repository.
pushd nodejs
# `pnpm docs` would invoke pnpm's built-in `docs` command, not the script.
pnpm run docs
popd