Lance Namespace

Lance Namespace is an open specification for describing access and operations against a collection of tables in a multimodal lakehouse, providing a unified model for metadata services and compute engines. The `lance-namespace` Python package offers the core interface and a plugin registry, enabling seamless integration with existing data lakehouse infrastructure, Apache Spark, Ray, and LanceDB for AI and analytics workloads. It is currently at version 0.6.1 and sees active development with frequent releases.