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lance-format/lance

Open Lakehouse Format for Multimodal AI. Convert from Parquet in 2 lines of code for 100x faster random access, vector index, and data versioning. Compatible with Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, Pyarrow, and PyTorch with more integrations coming..

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Aug 14, 2026
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Jun 5, 2026
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Apache License 2.0
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Contributing guide
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Rust
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Support StringView type in FTS indices
A-indexgood first issue
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lance-format / lance · #8245 · Aug 4, 2026 · Rust · 6,582 stars

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Column Statistic improvment list after MVP
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lance-format / lance · #5857 · Jan 29, 2026 · Rust · 6,582 stars

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Remove duplicate datafusion code
good first issue
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Has a beginner-friendly labelContributing guide available

lance-format / lance · #5671 · Jan 9, 2026 · Rust · 6,582 stars

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Example converter for nuscenes dataset
good first issuehelp wanted
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lance-format / lance · #3731 · Apr 23, 2025 · Rust · 6,582 stars

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Remove `protoc` requirement
good first issue
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lance-format / lance · #3073 · Oct 31, 2024 · Rust · 6,582 stars

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Allow filtering of projected fields
good first issue
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lance-format / lance · #2971 · Oct 3, 2024 · Rust · 6,582 stars

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Support Storage Options in Spark Connector
featuregood first issue
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lance-format / lance · #2854 · Sep 11, 2024 · Rust · 6,582 stars

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V2 manifest path in Java
A-javagood first issue
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lance-format / lance · #2814 · Aug 30, 2024 · Rust · 6,582 stars

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lance run benchmark panic
benchmarkbuggood first issuehelp wantedrust
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lance-format / lance · #2491 · Jun 19, 2024 · Rust · 6,582 stars

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