Congratulating the guest and discussing the origins of Lance DB

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The speaker congratulates the guest on their success with Lance DB and discusses how they discovered the company through a previous podcast episode. They delve into the motivations behind creating Lance DB and its journey so far.

Prashanth Rao mentioned LanceDB as a stand out amongst the many vector DB options in episode #234. Now, Chang She (co-founder and CEO of LanceDB) joins us to talk through the specifics of their open source, on-disk, embedded vector search offering. We talk about how their unique columnar database structure enables serverless deployments and drastic savings (without performance hits) at scale. This one is super practical, so don’t miss it!

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