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**Search More, Manage Less**
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LanceDB is an open-source database for vector-search built with persistent storage, which greatly simplifies retrieval, filtering and management of embeddings.
The key features of LanceDB include:
* Production-scale vector search with no servers to manage.
* Store, query and filter vectors, metadata and multi-modal data (text, images, videos, point clouds, and more).
* Support for vector similarity search, full-text search and SQL.
* Native Python and Javascript/Typescript support.
* Zero-copy, automatic versioning, manage versions of your data without needing extra infrastructure.
* GPU support in building vector index(*).
* Ecosystem integrations with [LangChain 🦜️🔗](https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/vectorstores/lancedb/), [LlamaIndex 🦙](https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/vector_stores/LanceDBIndexDemo.html), Apache-Arrow, Pandas, Polars, DuckDB and more on the way.
LanceDB's core is written in Rust 🦀 and is built using <a href="https://github.com/lancedb/lance">Lance</a>, an open-source columnar format designed for performant ML workloads.
## Quick Start
**Javascript**
```shell
npm install @lancedb/lancedb
```
```javascript
import * as lancedb from "@lancedb/lancedb";
const db = await lancedb.connect("data/sample-lancedb");
const table = await db.createTable("vectors", [
{ id: 1, vector: [0.1, 0.2], item: "foo", price: 10 },
{ id: 2, vector: [1.1, 1.2], item: "bar", price: 50 },
], {mode: 'overwrite'});
const query = table.vectorSearch([0.1, 0.3]).limit(2);
const results = await query.toArray();
// You can also search for rows by specific criteria without involving a vector search.
const rowsByCriteria = await table.query().where("price >= 10").toArray();
```
**Python**
```shell
pip install lancedb
```
```python
import lancedb
uri = "data/sample-lancedb"
db = lancedb.connect(uri)
table = db.create_table("my_table",
data=[{"vector": [3.1, 4.1], "item": "foo", "price": 10.0},
{"vector": [5.9, 26.5], "item": "bar", "price": 20.0}])
result = table.search([100, 100]).limit(2).to_pandas()
```
## Blogs, Tutorials & Videos
* 📈 <a href="https://blog.lancedb.com/benchmarking-random-access-in-lance/">2000x better performance with Lance over Parquet</a>
* 🤖 <a href="https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes/tree/main/examples/Youtube-Search-QA-Bot">Build a question and answer bot with LanceDB</a>