lance-format

@user_15292d5a/yjkj-lance-format

Reference for Lance v7 - the open columnar lakehouse format for multimodal AI - and its Rust crate workspace (`lance`, `lance-table`, `lance-file`, `lance-encoding`, `lance-index`, `lance-io`, `lance-namespace`, and more). Use when building directly on the Lance crates - creating or reading `.lance` datasets, manifests, fragments, deletion files, the 2.x file format and structural encodings, vector / scalar / full-text / geo indexes, MemWAL streaming writes, optimistic-concurrency commits and commit handlers, schema evolution, versioning, time-travel, tags, branches, stable row IDs, namespaces, or object-store config. Triggers on lance crate, .lance file, lance dataset, lance file format, structural encoding, IVF_PQ, IVF_HNSW, IVF_RQ, RaBitQ, lance FTS, zonemap, MemWAL, OCC retry, lance schema evolution, lance namespace, pylance. This is the Lance format and engine (the `lance-format/lance` repo), not LanceDB the database product - but also the right reference for what LanceDB builds on.

v1.0.0