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Function: connect()
connect(uri, options, session, headerProvider)
Connect to a LanceDB instance at the given URI.
Accepted formats:
/path/to/database
- local databases3://bucket/path/to/database
orgs://bucket/path/to/database
- database on cloud storagedb://host:port
- remote database (LanceDB cloud)
Parameters
-
uri:
string
The uri of the database. If the database uri starts withdb://
then it connects to a remote database. -
options?:
Partial
<ConnectionOptions
> The options to use when connecting to the database -
session?:
Session
-
headerProvider?:
HeaderProvider
| () =>Record
<string
,string
> | () =>Promise
<Record
<string
,string
>>
Returns
Promise
<Connection
>
See
ConnectionOptions for more details on the URI format.
Examples
Using with a header provider for per-request authentication:
const provider = new StaticHeaderProvider({
"X-API-Key": "my-key"
});
const conn = await connectWithHeaderProvider(
"db://host:port",
options,
provider
);
connect(options)
Connect to a LanceDB instance at the given URI.
Accepted formats:
/path/to/database
- local databases3://bucket/path/to/database
orgs://bucket/path/to/database
- database on cloud storagedb://host:port
- remote database (LanceDB cloud)
Parameters
- options:
Partial
<ConnectionOptions
> &object
The options to use when connecting to the database
Returns
Promise
<Connection
>
See
ConnectionOptions for more details on the URI format.