Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium

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Post by securicat » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 9:32 PM UTC

Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium
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Re: Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium

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Post by Tsarp » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 1:44 AM UTC

lanceDB and underlying lance works well as append only right? Wont you have to do index maintenance often for a chat access pattern?

Re: Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium

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Post by securicat » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 1:55 AM UTC

Tsarp wrote: post #2

lanceDB and underlying lance works well as append only right? Wont you have to do index maintenance often for a chat access pattern?

Good question. This is targeted more at smaller chat server use cases that put the admins in the drivers seat. Compaction operations and rebuilding indexes can happen during a maintenance window.

I plan on scaling up the number of messages the bot system generates to see where the breaking point is.