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May 5, 2026 · Big Data

A New Data Lake Paradigm: Volcano Engine’s Multi‑Modal Data Lake Built on Lance

The article presents Volcano Engine’s AI‑focused data lake built on the Lance format, detailing why traditional lakes fall short for multimodal data, the engineering enhancements such as Binary Copy Compaction, Lance Insight, distributed vector indexing, JSON‑based tagging, Row‑ID shuffle optimization, and real‑world case studies that demonstrate significant performance and cost gains.