Lance table format explained simply

TLDR (but stay for the animations!): Lance is a successor to Iceberg / Delta Lake, more optimized for random reads, and supports adding ad-hoc columns without needing to copy all the data. Some big things happened in the big data over object storage world in 2025: Iceberg V3 spec got released and added cool stuff like VARIANT . turbopuffer announced a vector search over object storages (similar to…