Deep reference for Lance v11 - the open columnar lakehouse format for multimodal AI - and its Rust crate workspace plus pylance. Covers the 2.x file format and structural encodings, the table format (manifests, fragments, transactions, OCC), vector / scalar / full-text indexes, MemWAL, schema evolut
Deep reference for Lance v11 - the open columnar lakehouse format for multimodal AI - and its Rust crate workspace plus pylance. Covers the 2.x file format and structural encodings, the table format (manifests, fragments, transactions, OCC), vector / scalar / full-text indexes, MemWAL, schema evolution, time travel, namespaces, and object-store config. Use when building directly on the Lance crate