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feat: document the new streaming dataset for data loading - #294

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Thanks for the PR @westonpace! As I understand it, this is in main, but not yet in the official release, right? If so, we should wait till we release it before merging.

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Thanks for the PR @westonpace! As I understand it, this is in main, but not yet in the official release, right? If so, we should wait till we release it before merging.

It's not even in main yet 😅 so yes, we should hold off for now.

@prrao87 prrao87 added the needs_new_release Only merge once we release a new version of LanceDB label Jul 2, 2026
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Updated to the latest state of the code and improved conciseness/clarity. LGTM!

Comment thread docs/training/index.mdx Outdated
stored in memory but they can be persisted to storage as well. This is useful when you want to share a permutation
table across processes or nodes.
`StreamingDataset` relies on the permutation API and requires direct access to an embedded LanceDB table. The table
data can live on local or cloud object storage, but a remote table accessed through the LanceDB Cloud API is not

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Is it still true that the remote table API isn't supported?

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No, the remote table API should be supported.

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I'll clean that up.

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Should be fixed now.

The Note incorrectly stated remote tables accessed through the LanceDB
Cloud API were unsupported. The remote table API is supported, so the
note now covers both embedded and remote tables.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merging this version as this will all be reflected in the soon-to-be-released next version of LanceDB

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prrao87 merged commit e76a50c into main Jul 24, 2026
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