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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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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 16:17:24 -08:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The LanceDB Authors
use lancedb::connect;
// --8<-- [start:quickstart_define_struct]
use std::sync::Arc;
use lancedb::arrow::arrow_array::types::Float32Type;
use lancedb::arrow::arrow_array::{
FixedSizeListArray, Int8Array, LargeStringArray, RecordBatch, RecordBatchIterator,
RecordBatchReader, StructArray,
};
use lancedb::arrow::arrow_schema::{DataType, Field, FieldRef, Fields, Schema};
// Define structs representing the data schema
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
struct Stats {
motion: i8,
sharpness: i8,
exposure: i8,
framing: i8,
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
struct Frame {
frame_id: String,
video_id: String,
caption: String,
stats: Stats,
embedding: [f32; 4],
}
fn frames_schema() -> Arc<Schema> {
Arc::new(Schema::new(vec![
Field::new("frame_id", DataType::LargeUtf8, false),
Field::new("video_id", DataType::LargeUtf8, false),
Field::new("caption", DataType::LargeUtf8, false),
Field::new(
"stats",
DataType::Struct(Fields::from(vec![
Arc::new(Field::new("motion", DataType::Int8, false)),
Arc::new(Field::new("sharpness", DataType::Int8, false)),
Arc::new(Field::new("exposure", DataType::Int8, false)),
Arc::new(Field::new("framing", DataType::Int8, false)),
])),
false,
),
Field::new(
"embedding",
DataType::FixedSizeList(Arc::new(Field::new("item", DataType::Float32, true)), 4),
false,
),
]))
}
fn frames_to_reader(schema: Arc<Schema>, rows: &[Frame]) -> Box<dyn RecordBatchReader + Send> {
let frame_ids =
LargeStringArray::from_iter_values(rows.iter().map(|row| row.frame_id.as_str()));
let video_ids =
LargeStringArray::from_iter_values(rows.iter().map(|row| row.video_id.as_str()));
let captions = LargeStringArray::from_iter_values(rows.iter().map(|row| row.caption.as_str()));
let motion = Int8Array::from_iter_values(rows.iter().map(|row| row.stats.motion));
let sharpness = Int8Array::from_iter_values(rows.iter().map(|row| row.stats.sharpness));
let exposure = Int8Array::from_iter_values(rows.iter().map(|row| row.stats.exposure));
let framing = Int8Array::from_iter_values(rows.iter().map(|row| row.stats.framing));
let stats_fields: Vec<FieldRef> = vec![
Arc::new(Field::new("motion", DataType::Int8, false)),
Arc::new(Field::new("sharpness", DataType::Int8, false)),
Arc::new(Field::new("exposure", DataType::Int8, false)),
Arc::new(Field::new("framing", DataType::Int8, false)),
];
let stats = StructArray::new(
stats_fields.into(),
vec![
Arc::new(motion),
Arc::new(sharpness),
Arc::new(exposure),
Arc::new(framing),
],
None,
);
let embeddings = FixedSizeListArray::from_iter_primitive::<Float32Type, _, _>(
rows.iter()
.map(|row| Some(row.embedding.iter().copied().map(Some).collect::<Vec<_>>())),
4,
);
let batch = RecordBatch::try_new(
schema.clone(),
vec![
Arc::new(frame_ids),
Arc::new(video_ids),
Arc::new(captions),
Arc::new(stats),
Arc::new(embeddings),
],
)
.unwrap();
Box::new(RecordBatchIterator::new(
vec![Ok(batch)].into_iter(),
schema,
))
}
// --8<-- [end:quickstart_define_struct]
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
let temp_dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
let uri = temp_dir.path().to_str().unwrap();
let db = connect(uri).execute().await.unwrap();
// --8<-- [start:quickstart_data]
let data = vec![
Frame {
frame_id: "1".to_string(),
video_id: "clip-1".to_string(),
caption: "a robot arm reaching toward a cup".to_string(),
stats: Stats {
motion: 3,
sharpness: 4,
exposure: 4,
framing: 3,
},
embedding: [0.7, 0.1, 0.9, 0.7],
},
Frame {
frame_id: "2".to_string(),
video_id: "clip-1".to_string(),
caption: "a two-finger gripper closing on a cup".to_string(),
stats: Stats {
motion: 5,
sharpness: 4,
exposure: 5,
framing: 2,
},
embedding: [0.2, 0.9, 0.4, 0.9],
},
Frame {
frame_id: "3".to_string(),
video_id: "clip-2".to_string(),
caption: "a robot arm holding a cup steady".to_string(),
stats: 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]
use lancedb::database::CreateTableMode;
let schema = frames_schema();
let table = db
.create_table("frames", frames_to_reader(schema.clone(), &data))
.mode(CreateTableMode::Overwrite)
.execute()
.await
.unwrap();
// --8<-- [end:quickstart_create_table]
assert_eq!(table.count_rows(None).await.unwrap(), 3);
// --8<-- [start:quickstart_add_data]
let more_data = vec![Frame {
frame_id: "4".to_string(),
video_id: "clip-2".to_string(),
caption: "a gripper lowering a cup onto the table".to_string(),
stats: Stats {
motion: 5,
sharpness: 4,
exposure: 4,
framing: 2,
},
embedding: [0.3, 0.9, 0.6, 0.8],
}];
table
.add(frames_to_reader(schema.clone(), &more_data))
.execute()
.await
.unwrap();
// --8<-- [end:quickstart_add_data]
assert_eq!(table.count_rows(None).await.unwrap(), 4);
// --8<-- [start:quickstart_vector_search_1]
use lancedb::arrow::IntoPolars;
use lancedb::query::{ExecutableQuery, QueryBase, Select};
// Search for frames similar to "a gripper closing on an object"
let query_vector = [0.2, 0.8, 0.4, 0.9];
let result = table
.query()
.nearest_to(&query_vector)
.unwrap()
.select(Select::Columns(vec![
"frame_id".to_string(),
"video_id".to_string(),
"caption".to_string(),
"_distance".to_string(),
]))
.limit(2)
.execute()
.await
.unwrap()
.into_polars()
.await
.unwrap();
println!("{result:?}");
// --8<-- [end:quickstart_vector_search_1]
let frame_id_col = result.column("frame_id").unwrap().str().unwrap();
assert_eq!(frame_id_col.get(0).unwrap(), "2");
assert_eq!(frame_id_col.get(1).unwrap(), "4");
// --8<-- [start:quickstart_output_array]
let result = table
.query()
.nearest_to(&query_vector)
.unwrap()
.select(Select::Columns(vec![
"frame_id".to_string(),
"video_id".to_string(),
"caption".to_string(),
"_distance".to_string(),
]))
.limit(2)
.execute()
.await
.unwrap()
.into_polars()
.await
.unwrap();
println!("{result:?}");
// --8<-- [end:quickstart_output_array]
let frame_id_col = result.column("frame_id").unwrap().str().unwrap();
assert_eq!(frame_id_col.get(0).unwrap(), "2");
// What the quickstart's download step leaves in an application's directory.
let app = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
std::fs::create_dir(app.path().join("data")).unwrap();
std::fs::copy(
std::path::Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
.join("../../web/static/assets/images/quickstart/sir-lancelot.jpg"),
app.path().join("data/sample-frame.jpg"),
)
.unwrap();
std::env::set_current_dir(app.path()).unwrap();
// --8<-- [start:quickstart_multimodal_bytes]
use lancedb::arrow::arrow_array::BinaryArray;
let image_bytes = std::fs::read("data/sample-frame.jpg").unwrap();
let image_schema = Arc::new(Schema::new(vec![
Field::new("frame_id", DataType::LargeUtf8, false),
Field::new("caption", DataType::LargeUtf8, false),
Field::new("image", DataType::Binary, false),
Field::new(
"embedding",
DataType::FixedSizeList(Arc::new(Field::new("item", DataType::Float32, true)), 4),
false,
),
]));
let image_embeddings = [[0.9_f32, 0.1, 0.5, 0.4]];
let image_batch = RecordBatch::try_new(
image_schema.clone(),
vec![
Arc::new(LargeStringArray::from_iter_values(["thumb-1"])),
Arc::new(LargeStringArray::from_iter_values([
"Sample frame thumbnail",
])),
Arc::new(BinaryArray::from_iter_values([image_bytes.as_slice()])),
Arc::new(
FixedSizeListArray::from_iter_primitive::<Float32Type, _, _>(
image_embeddings
.iter()
.map(|vector| Some(vector.iter().copied().map(Some).collect::<Vec<_>>())),
4,
),
),
],
)
.unwrap();
let image_reader: Box<dyn RecordBatchReader + Send> = Box::new(RecordBatchIterator::new(
vec![Ok(image_batch)].into_iter(),
image_schema,
));
let multimodal_table = db
.create_table("frame_images", image_reader)
.mode(CreateTableMode::Overwrite)
.execute()
.await
.unwrap();
// --8<-- [end:quickstart_multimodal_bytes]
assert_eq!(multimodal_table.count_rows(None).await.unwrap(), 1);
}