LanceDB
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ELI5 — The Vibe Check
LanceDB stores your vectors in a special columnar file format called Lance, which is like Parquet took steroids specifically for AI workloads. It's serverless, meaning you point it at S3 and walk away. No servers. No maintenance. Just vectors living on cheap object storage.
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