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 646 GitHub stars and 53 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Lantern's open source repository on GitHub
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?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
Related Comparisons
No related comparisons found