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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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# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors
import os
import shutil
import uuid
from pathlib import Path
import lancedb
import pytest
import pytest_asyncio
# What the quickstart's download step leaves in an application's directory.
IMAGE = (
Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
/ "web/static/assets/images/quickstart/sir-lancelot.jpg"
)
DEPLOYMENT = ("LANCEDB_URI", "LANCEDB_HOST_OVERRIDE", "LANCEDB_API_KEY")
# The connection settings alone never send these tests to a deployment.
OPT_IN = "LANCEDB_DOCS_TEST_DEPLOYMENT"
def deployment_settings():
if os.environ.get(OPT_IN) != "1":
pytest.skip(f"set {OPT_IN}=1 and {', '.join(DEPLOYMENT)} to use a deployment")
missing = [name for name in DEPLOYMENT if not os.environ.get(name)]
if missing:
pytest.fail(f"{OPT_IN}=1 needs {', '.join(missing)}")
return dict(
uri=os.environ["LANCEDB_URI"],
api_key=os.environ["LANCEDB_API_KEY"],
region=os.environ.get("LANCEDB_REGION", "us-east-1"),
host_override=os.environ["LANCEDB_HOST_OVERRIDE"],
)
class OwnedTables:
"""A deployment connection on which a test creates only tables of its own.
Each name gets a suffix unique to the test and is claimed only while no
table has it; the test drops what it claimed, whether or not it passed.
"""
def __init__(self, db):
self.db = db
self.suffix = uuid.uuid4().hex[:12]
self.claimed = []
self.claimed_namespaces = []
def claim(self, name, existing, mode):
owned = f"{name}_{self.suffix}"
if owned in self.claimed:
return owned, mode
if owned in existing:
raise RuntimeError(f"{owned} already exists and is not this test's")
self.claimed.append(owned)
return owned, "create"
def table_names(self):
names, token = [], None
while True:
page = self.db.list_tables(page_token=token)
names += page.tables
if not (token := page.page_token):
return names
def create_table(self, name, *args, mode="create", **kwargs):
owned, mode = self.claim(name, self.table_names(), mode)
return self.db.create_table(owned, *args, mode=mode, **kwargs)
def claim_namespace(self):
"""A namespace only this test can see, for SQL text that must show
readers a literal, unqualified table name (so suffixing the name
itself, as `claim` does, isn't an option). The namespace is created
exclusively (no check-then-act): a collision raises instead of
silently sharing someone else's. `drop_claimed` cascades through it,
so individual tables and views inside never need their own claim.
"""
namespace_path = [f"quickstart_{self.suffix}"]
self.db.create_namespace(namespace_path, mode="create")
self.claimed_namespaces.append(namespace_path)
return NamespacedDB(self.db, namespace_path)
def drop_claimed(self):
existing = self.table_names()
for name in self.claimed:
if name in existing:
self.db.drop_table(name)
for namespace_path in self.claimed_namespaces:
self.db.drop_namespace(namespace_path, mode="skip", behavior="cascade")
class NamespacedDB:
"""A `db.create_table` / `db.execute_query` view scoped to one namespace."""
def __init__(self, db, namespace_path):
self.db = db
self.namespace_path = namespace_path
def create_table(self, name, *args, **kwargs):
kwargs.setdefault("namespace_path", self.namespace_path)
return self.db.create_table(name, *args, **kwargs)
def execute_query(self, query, **kwargs):
kwargs.setdefault("default_namespace_path", self.namespace_path)
return self.db.execute_query(query, **kwargs)
class AsyncOwnedTables(OwnedTables):
async def table_names(self):
names, token = [], None
while True:
page = await self.db.list_tables(page_token=token)
names += page.tables
if not (token := page.page_token):
return names
async def create_table(self, name, *args, mode="create", **kwargs):
owned, mode = self.claim(name, await self.table_names(), mode)
return await self.db.create_table(owned, *args, mode=mode, **kwargs)
async def drop_claimed(self):
existing = await self.table_names()
for name in self.claimed:
if name in existing:
await self.db.drop_table(name)
@pytest.fixture
def deployment():
owned = OwnedTables(lancedb.connect(**deployment_settings()))
yield owned
owned.drop_claimed()
@pytest.fixture(params=["local", "enterprise"])
def db(request, db_path_factory):
if request.param == "local":
yield lancedb.connect(db_path_factory("quickstart_db"))
else:
yield request.getfixturevalue("deployment")
@pytest_asyncio.fixture(params=["local", "enterprise"])
async def async_db(request, db_path_factory):
if request.param == "local":
yield await lancedb.connect_async(db_path_factory("quickstart_async_db"))
return
owned = AsyncOwnedTables(await lancedb.connect_async(**deployment_settings()))
yield owned
await owned.drop_claimed()
def create_frames(db):
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_data]
data = [
{
"frame_id": "1",
"video_id": "clip-1",
"caption": "a robot arm reaching toward a cup",
"stats": {"motion": 3, "sharpness": 4, "exposure": 4, "framing": 3},
"embedding": [0.7, 0.1, 0.9, 0.7],
},
{
"frame_id": "2",
"video_id": "clip-1",
"caption": "a two-finger gripper closing on a cup",
"stats": {"motion": 5, "sharpness": 4, "exposure": 5, "framing": 2},
"embedding": [0.2, 0.9, 0.4, 0.9],
},
{
"frame_id": "3",
"video_id": "clip-2",
"caption": "a robot arm holding a cup steady",
"stats": {"motion": 2, "sharpness": 3, "exposure": 3, "framing": 4},
"embedding": [0.9, 0.1, 0.5, 0.4],
},
]
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_data]
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_create_table]
table = db.create_table("frames", data=data, mode="overwrite")
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_create_table]
assert table.count_rows() == 3
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_add_data]
table.add(
[
{
"frame_id": "4",
"video_id": "clip-2",
"caption": "a gripper lowering a cup onto the table",
"stats": {"motion": 5, "sharpness": 4, "exposure": 4, "framing": 2},
"embedding": [0.3, 0.9, 0.6, 0.8],
}
]
)
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_add_data]
assert table.count_rows() == 4
return table
def test_quickstart(db):
table = create_frames(db)
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_vector_search_1]
# Search for frames similar to "a gripper closing on an object"
query_vector = [0.2, 0.8, 0.4, 0.9]
# Ensure you run `pip install polars` beforehand
result = (
table.search(query_vector)
.select(["frame_id", "video_id", "caption", "_distance"])
.limit(2)
.to_polars()
)
print(result)
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_vector_search_1]
assert result["frame_id"].to_list() == ["2", "4"]
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_output_pandas]
# Ensure you run `pip install pandas` beforehand
result = table.search(query_vector).limit(2).to_pandas()
print(result)
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_output_pandas]
assert result["frame_id"].to_list() == ["2", "4"]
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_quickstart_async_api(async_db):
data = [
{
"frame_id": "2",
"video_id": "clip-1",
"caption": "a two-finger gripper closing on a cup",
"stats": {"motion": 5, "sharpness": 4, "exposure": 5, "framing": 2},
"embedding": [0.2, 0.9, 0.4, 0.9],
}
]
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_create_table_async]
async_table = await async_db.create_table(
"frames",
data=data,
mode="overwrite",
)
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_create_table_async]
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_vector_search_1_async]
# Search for frames similar to "a gripper closing on an object"
query_vector = [0.2, 0.8, 0.4, 0.9]
# Ensure you run `pip install polars` beforehand
async_result = (
await (await async_table.search(query_vector))
.select(["frame_id", "video_id", "caption", "_distance"])
.limit(2)
.to_polars()
)
print(async_result)
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_vector_search_1_async]
assert async_result["frame_id"].to_list() == ["2"]
def test_quickstart_curate_with_sql(deployment):
# create_frames and the dedupe statement below name tables directly, to
# keep the extracted snippets reading like the quickstart. Run inside a
# namespace only this test can see, so a concurrent run can never
# overwrite this run's 'frames' or drop it out from under this one.
db = deployment.claim_namespace()
table = create_frames(db)
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_curate_sample]
sample = db.execute_query(
"SELECT frame_id FROM frames TABLESAMPLE (2 ROWS)"
).read_all()
print(sample.to_pylist())
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_curate_sample]
assert sample.num_rows == 2
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_curate_dedupe_setup]
# Frame 5 is a near-duplicate of frame 2: the gripper is still closing,
# one video frame later, with an almost identical embedding.
table.add(
[
{
"frame_id": "5",
"video_id": "clip-1",
"caption": "the two-finger gripper still closing on the cup",
"stats": {"motion": 5, "sharpness": 4, "exposure": 5, "framing": 2},
"embedding": [0.2, 0.9, 0.4, 0.89],
}
]
)
from lancedb.index import IvfFlat
table.create_index(
"embedding", config=IvfFlat(num_partitions=1, distance_type="l2")
)
table.wait_for_index(["embedding_idx"])
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_curate_dedupe_setup]
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_curate_dedupe]
db.execute_query("""
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW frames_deduped AS
SELECT * FROM dedupe(
'frames',
'embedding',
distance_threshold => 0.03
)
""")
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_curate_dedupe]
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_curate_dedupe_query]
deduped = db.execute_query(
"SELECT frame_id FROM frames_deduped ORDER BY frame_id"
).read_all()
print(deduped.to_pylist())
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_curate_dedupe_query]
assert deduped.column("frame_id").to_pylist() in (
["1", "2", "3", "4"],
["1", "3", "4", "5"],
)
def quality_scores(table):
rows = table.search().select(["frame_id", "video_id", "quality_score"]).to_list()
return {row["frame_id"]: row["quality_score"] for row in rows}
EXPECTED_QUALITY_SCORES = {"1": 3.5, "2": 4.0, "3": 3.0, "4": 3.75}
def flatten_stats(table):
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_flatten_stats]
table.add_columns(
{
"motion": "cast(stats.motion as float)",
"sharpness": "cast(stats.sharpness as float)",
"exposure": "cast(stats.exposure as float)",
"framing": "cast(stats.framing as float)",
}
)
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_flatten_stats]
def test_quickstart_derived_feature(db_path_factory):
db = lancedb.connect(db_path_factory("derived_feature"))
table = create_frames(db)
flatten_stats(table)
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_add_feature]
from lancedb import col, udf
@udf
def quality_score(
motion: float, sharpness: float, exposure: float, framing: float
) -> float:
return (motion + sharpness + exposure + framing) / 4.0
version = db.create_function_async(quality_score).wait()
table.add_columns(
{
"quality_score": version(
motion=col("motion"),
sharpness=col("sharpness"),
exposure=col("exposure"),
framing=col("framing"),
)
}
)
table.refresh_column("quality_score")
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_add_feature]
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_query_feature]
features = (
table.search().select(["frame_id", "video_id", "quality_score"]).to_polars()
)
print(features)
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_query_feature]
assert quality_scores(table) == EXPECTED_QUALITY_SCORES
def test_quickstart_derived_feature_on_a_deployment(deployment):
table = create_frames(deployment)
flatten_stats(table)
from lancedb import col, udf
@udf
def quality_score(
motion: float, sharpness: float, exposure: float, framing: float
) -> float:
return (motion + sharpness + exposure + framing) / 4.0
version = deployment.db.create_function_async(quality_score).wait()
table.add_columns(
{
"quality_score": version(
motion=col("motion"),
sharpness=col("sharpness"),
exposure=col("exposure"),
framing=col("framing"),
)
}
)
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_add_feature_enterprise]
job = table.refresh_column_async("quality_score")
job.wait()
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_add_feature_enterprise]
assert quality_scores(table) == EXPECTED_QUALITY_SCORES
with pytest.raises(Exception):
table.refresh_column("quality_score")
def test_quickstart_multimodal(db, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
app = tmp_path / "app"
(app / "data").mkdir(parents=True)
shutil.copy(IMAGE, app / "data/sample-frame.jpg")
monkeypatch.chdir(app)
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_multimodal_bytes]
from pathlib import Path
image_bytes = Path("data/sample-frame.jpg").read_bytes()
multimodal_table = db.create_table(
"frame_images",
data=[
{
"frame_id": "thumb-1",
"caption": "Sample frame thumbnail",
"image": image_bytes,
"embedding": [0.9, 0.1, 0.5, 0.4],
}
],
mode="overwrite",
)
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_multimodal_bytes]
assert multimodal_table.count_rows() == 1
stored = multimodal_table.search().select(["image"]).to_list()[0]["image"]
assert stored == IMAGE.read_bytes()
def test_quickstart_training(db):
table = create_frames(db)
# The real walkthrough reaches this step with motion/sharpness already
# added back in flatten_stats(); add them here too so this test stands
# on its own, without repeating the add_columns call the snippet shows.
flatten_stats(table)
# --8<-- [start:quickstart_training]
import torch
from lancedb.streaming import StreamingDataset
dataset = StreamingDataset(table, columns=["motion", "sharpness"], shuffle_seed=42)
dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=1024, num_workers=0)
# --8<-- [end:quickstart_training]
batches = list(dataloader)
assert len(batches) == 1
assert set(batches[0]) == {"motion", "sharpness"}
assert all(isinstance(value, torch.Tensor) for value in batches[0].values())
assert sorted(batches[0]["motion"].tolist()) == [2.0, 3.0, 5.0, 5.0]