Terms

The software

LanceScope is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. That licence, not this page, governs your use of the code: you may use, modify and redistribute it under its terms, including commercially. The authoritative copy ships in the repository as LICENSE.

As Apache-2.0 says at more length: the software is provided on an “AS IS” basis, without warranties or conditions of any kind, and the contributors are not liable for damages arising from its use.

What that means in practice

• It reads your data. It is built so that browsing cannot modify a table, and that is enforced by tests rather than by intention — but it is still software, and you should keep backups of anything you care about.
• Its one write path creates new tables from files you point it at. It refuses a destination that already exists, and deletes a table only when you explicitly ask it to.
• The optional language layer sends what you ask it to send to whichever model you configured. If that is a hosted API, their terms and their pricing apply, and the cost is yours.
• There is no support commitment, no service level, and no guarantee that any release will be maintained.

This website

The measurements published here were taken on specific data on specific dates, and each one says which. They describe how Lance behaved for that dataset; they are not a promise about how it will behave for yours. If a figure here does not match what you measure, please say so — that is a bug in the page.

The site may change or disappear. Links to third-party sites are not endorsements, and their contents are not ours.

Not affiliated

LanceScope is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or supported by LanceDB. See Attribution for the trademark and copyright position.