lance-format / lance-format/lance

Support lance url table in datafusion

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Description

Datafusion supports url table used like this:

select * from 'S3://bucket1/dataset2'

We could support this by implement a lance UrlTableFactory. And beyond xxx.lance tables, we should also accept xxx.parquet, 'xxx.csv', 'xxx.json' as long as datafusion has supported them.

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Research direction

Start by tracing DataFusion's URL-table handling and the proposed lance UrlTableFactory. Verify how a query such as SELECT * FROM 'S3://bucket1/dataset2' is resolved, then define completion as support for .lance, .parquet, .csv, and .json URLs wherever DataFusion supports those formats.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
data-engineering
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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