# LanceDB vs MyScale

| Attribute | LanceDB | MyScale |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 59.2 (43% (low)) | 57 (45% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 453 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 11,284 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 1,350,674 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A purpose-built lakehouse designed for AI applications that unifies storage, indexing, and retrieval of multimodal data (text, images, videos, and more) at petabyte scale. Enables fast vector search, metadata filtering, and feature engineering workflows for machine learning workloads without data synchronization overhead. | A fully SQL-compatible vector database for building production-grade GenAI applications with native SQL integration, supporting vector search, text search, and complex SQL-vector queries. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"self_hosted","storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"permissive_oss","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"post_filter"}` | `{"ann_index":"MSTG","deployment":"managed","hybrid_search":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"distance_metrics":"cosine","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"pre_filter"}` |
| integrations.count | 15 | 11 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Apache Arrow"},{"name":"Pandas"},{"name":"Polars"},{"name":"CrewAI"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Apache Fluss"},{"name":"Ray"},{"name":"Volcano Engine"},{"name":"Voxel51"},{"name":"Continue"},{"name":"OpenClaw"},{"name":"LeRobot"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Llama Index"},{"name":"Dify"},{"name":"BentoML"},{"name":"DSPy"},{"name":"Gemini"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Voyage AI"},{"name":"Jina"},{"name":"Hugging Face"}]` |
| language.primary | Rust | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"SG","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing.model | commercial | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.9","date":"2026-08-25T10:32:32Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.8","date":"2026-08-25T06:26:50Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.10","date":"2026-08-25T10:37:30Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.7","date":"2026-08-24T21:09:33Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.6","date":"2026-08-23T17:33:36Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.5","date":"2026-08-23T08:08:08Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.4","date":"2026-08-22T16:39:04Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.3","date":"2026-08-21T10:26:13Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.2","date":"2026-08-19T01:59:45Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.1","date":"2026-08-17T16:57:15Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.0","date":"2026-08-14T01:10:07Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.37.1","date":"2026-08-10T07:55:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.37.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.37.1-beta.2","date":"2026-08-10T06:31:02Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.37.1-beta.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.37.1-beta.1","date":"2026-08-07T21:16:26Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.37.1-beta.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.37.1-beta.0","date":"2026-07-29T07:12:53Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.37.1-beta.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.33.0","date":"2026-07-28T21:32:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.33.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/python-v0.36.0","date":"2026-07-28T21:33:04Z","type":"stable","version":"python-v0.36.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.33.0-beta.0","date":"2026-07-24T19:34:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.33.0-beta.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.32.0-beta.3","date":"2026-07-24T22:04:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.32.0-beta.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/python-v0.36.0-beta.0","date":"2026-07-24T19:34:22Z","type":"stable","version":"python-v0.36.0-beta.0"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=lancedb&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | LanceDB | MyScale |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Managed |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | - | - |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | MSTG |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | cosine |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | Post-filter | Pre-filter |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | - | - |
| On-disk vs in-memory | Disk-backed | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded / distributed | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | - |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:37:27.535Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*