Advanced MLOps & Production
30 MIN READ
Beyond Parquet: How Lance and LanceDB Rebuild the Data Layer for Machine Learning
Parquet was built for scans; ML needs random access, fat embedding columns, cheap column backfills, and versioned datasets. A practitioner's look at the Lance format and LanceDB: what the peer-reviewable numbers actually show, where the hype outruns the evidence, and how it changes the dataloader and RAG designs from my earlier posts.