Big Data Technology & Architecture

Sep 28, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Daft, Ray, and Lance: Rebuilding AI Data Infrastructure from Compute to Storage

This article introduces Daft, Ray, and Lance as the core layers of modern AI data infrastructure: Daft handles multimodal data computation, Ray manages distributed scheduling across heterogeneous resources, and Lance provides a lakehouse format optimized for vector search and random access, together replacing fragmented toolchains.