LanceDB API Reference

LanceDB provides multiple ways to interact with your vector database:

1. LanceDB Cloud REST API - A RESTful API service for cloud-hosted LanceDB instances
2. Client SDKs - Native language bindings for direct integration

LanceDB Cloud REST API

The REST API allows you to interact with LanceDB Cloud instances using standard HTTP requests. This is ideal for building web applications, cross-platform integrations, serverless architectures and anguage-agnostic implementations. The complete API specification is available here:

LanceDB Cloud	Documentation Link
REST API	REST API Documentation

Client SDKs

The SDKs provide a type-safe interfaces, native data structure integrations, advanced querying capabilities and better performance through optimized protocols.

For tighter integration with your application code, LanceDB provides native SDK libraries in multiple languages:

LanceDB SDKs	Documentation Link	Description
Python	Python SDK Documentation	Full-featured Python client with pandas & numpy integration
JavaScript (@lancedb/lancedb package)	Current JS Documentation	Modern JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for Node.js and browsers
JavaScript (legacy vectordb package)	Legacy JS Documentation	Legacy JavaScript package (deprecated)
Rust	Rust Documentation	Native Rust implementation for high performance