What is Lantern?
It is an open-source PostgreSQL database extension to store vector data, generate embeddings, and handle vector search operations. It provides a new index type for vector columns which speeds up ORDER BY ... LIMIT queries.
Lantern is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
Lantern is an open source tool with 865 GitHub stars and 63 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Lantern's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Lantern?
Developers
Lantern Integrations
Lantern's Features
- Embedding generation for popular use cases
- Interoperability with pgvector's data type, so anyone using pgvector can switch to Lantern
- Parallel index creation via an external indexer
- Ability to generate the index graph outside of the database server
Lantern Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Lantern?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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