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LanceDB

LanceDB is the AI-Native multimodal lakehouse built on the open-source Lance columnar storage format. It pairs an Apache 2.0 licensed embedded retrieval library (Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, C, Java SDKs) with a managed cloud service (LanceDB Cloud) and an enterprise lakehouse (LanceDB Enterprise) that unify vector, full-text, hybrid, and SQL search across billions of multimodal records. The REST surface is governed by the open Lance Namespace specification (OpenAPI 3.1) covering namespace, table, index, tag, and transaction operations with first-class support for materialized views, schema evolution, and time-travel versioning. LanceDB is used in production by Midjourney, Runway, World Labs, Netflix, Character.AI, Uber, NVIDIA, ByteDance, Databricks, and others for RAG, agent memory, training data curation, feature engineering, and large-scale retrieval.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles LanceDB the way a machine reads it — 41 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — LanceDB scores 49.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 24/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
LanceDB Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile LanceDB

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for LanceDB. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 12

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

LanceDB Enterprise

Distributed, multi-tenant multimodal lakehouse. Adds curation and deduplication, Python UDF feature engineering, materialized views, GPU-accelerated index build via cuVS, distri...

Lance Format

Apache 2.0 open lakehouse format for multimodal AI. Columnar Parquet replacement offering 100x faster random access, zero-copy reads, vector indexes, and automatic data versioni...

LanceDB Python SDK

Primary client library. First-class Arrow, Pandas, Polars, and Pydantic integration; pluggable embedding functions covering OpenAI, Cohere, Jina, Hugging Face, Ollama, Bedrock, ...

LanceDB TypeScript SDK

Node.js / TypeScript / JavaScript client library for LanceDB OSS, Cloud, and Enterprise. Bundles native bindings via napi-rs.

LanceDB Rust SDK

Native Rust client library; the LanceDB core and storage layer are written in Rust.

LanceDB Go SDK

Official Go client library for LanceDB OSS, Cloud, and Enterprise.

LanceDB C Bindings

C ABI bindings for LanceDB enabling embedding into C, C++, and other FFI-capable hosts.

LanceDB MCP Server

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server exposing LanceDB tables as retrieval tools for MCP-aware agents and IDEs.

LanceDB MaterializedView API

The MaterializedView API from LanceDB — 2 operation(s) for materializedview.

LanceDB Namespace API

Operations that are related to a namespace

LanceDB Table API

Operations that are related to a table

LanceDB Transaction API

Operations that are related to a transaction

Scroll within the panel for all 12 ·

Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Scroll within the panel for all 9 ·

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Lancedb Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Lancedb Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Lancedb Context

26 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

LanceDB API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

LanceDB API Rules

7 rules · 4 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Lance Namespace

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LanceDB Query Request

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LanceDB Table

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Lancedb Table Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Lancedb Authentication

apiKey/http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Lancedb Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Lancedb Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Lancedb Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Lancedb Agentic Access

50 operations · 47 acting

50 operations · 47 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for LanceDB — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of LanceDB, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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