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lancedb/nodejs
Will Jones 2a6586d6fb feat: add flag to enable faster manifest paths (#1612)
The new V2 manifest path scheme makes discovering the latest version of
a table constant time on object stores, regardless of the number of
versions in the table. See benchmarks in the PR here:
https://github.com/lancedb/lance/pull/2798

Closes #1583
2024-09-09 11:34:36 -07:00
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LanceDB JavaScript SDK

A JavaScript library for LanceDB.

Installation

npm install @lancedb/lancedb

This will download the appropriate native library for your platform. We currently support:

  • Linux (x86_64 and aarch64)
  • MacOS (Intel and ARM/M1/M2)
  • Windows (x86_64 only)

We do not yet support musl-based Linux (such as Alpine Linux) or aarch64 Windows.

Usage

Basic Example

import * as lancedb from "@lancedb/lancedb";
const db = await lancedb.connect("data/sample-lancedb");
const table = await db.createTable("my_table", [
  { id: 1, vector: [0.1, 1.0], item: "foo", price: 10.0 },
  { id: 2, vector: [3.9, 0.5], item: "bar", price: 20.0 },
]);
const results = await table.vectorSearch([0.1, 0.3]).limit(20).toArray();
console.log(results);

The quickstart contains a more complete example.

Development

npm run build
npm run test

Running lint / format

LanceDb uses biome for linting and formatting. if you are using VSCode you will need to install the official Biome extension. To manually lint your code you can run:

npm run lint

to automatically fix all fixable issues:

npm run lint-fix

If you do not have your workspace root set to the nodejs directory, unfortunately the extension will not work. You can still run the linting and formatting commands manually.

Generating docs

npm run docs

cd ../docs
# Asssume the virtual environment was created
# python3 -m venv venv
# pip install -r requirements.txt
. ./venv/bin/activate
mkdocs build