Why AI Workloads Require Rebuilding Parquet: A Deep Dive into Lance
The article explains how traditional Parquet‑based lakehouse architectures, optimized for large‑scale scans, struggle with AI workloads that need ultra‑low‑latency random access, and how Lance redesigns the storage format, indexing and write path to provide O(1) addressing, native vector support, and seamless integration with native execution engines.
