

lancedb license, foundation and stars
Search and vector · Apache 2.0 (open source) · 11,830 stars
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
Apache 2.0 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2023.
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About and history
- Repository
- lancedb/lancedb · created Feb 28, 2023
- Website
- lancedb.com/docs
- Language
- Rust
- Foundation
- None; run by its maintainers
- GitHub detects
- Apache-2.0
- Stars per week
- 51 (GitHub weekly snapshots)
Weekly snapshots
| Week of | Bar | Stars |
|---|
| Nov 2, 2026 | | 11,830 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | | 11,742 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | | 11,671 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | | 11,601 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | | 11,526 |
Changes
Stars per weekNov 2, 2026
Gains about 51 stars a week, down from 54.
Stars per weekOct 22, 2026
Gains about 54 stars a week, up from 48.
Stars per weekOct 14, 2026
Gains about 48 stars a week, down from 75.
Stars per weekOct 4, 2026
Gains about 75 stars a week.
TrackedSep 25, 2026
Now tracked, from lancedb/lancedb on GitHub.