Lance Format v2.2 Benchmarks: Half the Storage, None of the Slowdown
Benchmarks that show how Lance format v2.2 cuts storage by 50%+, beats Parquet on compression, and delivers up to 68x faster blob reads — while preserving the scan and random access patterns that multimodal training depends on.
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Lance × Hugging Face: A New Era of Sharing Multimodal Data on the Hub
Announcing native read support for Lance format on Hugging Face Hub. You can now distribute your large multimodal datasets as a single, searchable artifact (including blobs, embeddings and indexes) all in one place!
Engineering
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