Deep Lake
ActiveloopDeep Lake is a database for AI built on a storage format designed for deep-learning access patterns, holding embeddings alongside the audio, text, video, image, DICOM and PDF records they were derived from. It serves two jobs from one store: vector and metadata retrieval for LLM applications, and dataset management and streaming for training. Activeloop develops it, with a C++ core, a Postgres integration and Python bindings in the repository.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- Apache-2.0(OSI)
- source
- public
- core features withheld
- no
Deep Lake's Apache-2.0 core is public, unarchived and builds the whole product, with no paid tier or enterprise edition gating it. The repository publishes the C++ engine along with its Postgres and Python bindings, and the managed offering is a service sold beside that core.
- https://docs.deeplake.ai/latest/core/ recorded 2026-09-30
Core docs page says "The open-source Deeplake library provides a multi-modal AI database for dataset management, vector search, and deep learning training."
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/activeloopai/deeplake/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-30
LICENSE file is the Apache-2.0 text: "Apache License" and "Version 2.0, January 2004" and "TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION".
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/activeloopai/deeplake/main/postgres/README.md recorded 2026-09-30
The repository postgres directory README calls pg_deeplake a "PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search, full-text search, and hybrid search using DeepLake" and gives "Building from Source" steps.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/activeloopai/deeplake/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-30
README describes "a Database for AI powered by a storage format optimized for deep-learning applications" and installs with "pip install deeplake"; searched the body for enterprise edition, paid tier and license key: none (the word enterprise appears only as "enterprise-grade LLM-based products").
Adoption
3 high confidenceDeep Lake's adoption reading comes directly from PyPI downloads of the deeplake package, since that package is the storage and query library itself rather than a client for a separate service. That is a direct signal of use, though it counts only PyPI installs and not use through other package managers or vendored copies.
- https://pypistats.org/api/packages/deeplake/recent recorded 2026-08-18
last_month downloads = 128,377 for deeplake
Capability
4 medium confidenceDeep Lake combines a multimodal storage format with vector and metadata querying, dataset versioning, streaming into training loops, and a Postgres surface. Vespa covers more of the same persist-index-retrieve path across a broader range of retrieval modes, which keeps Deep Lake one step behind it.
- https://docs.deeplake.ai/latest/core/ recorded 2026-09-30
Core docs page lists vector search with "cosine similarity, BM25 text search" and says to "Store datasets locally or on any cloud".
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/activeloopai/deeplake/main/postgres/README.md recorded 2026-09-30
The Postgres extension README lists full-text search "with BM25 scoring on text columns" and hybrid search "combining vectors and text".
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/activeloopai/deeplake/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-30
README says Deep Lake offers "storage for all data types" with "querying and vector search, data streaming while training models at scale, data versioning and lineage" and "it is serverless".
Verified 2026-09-24, except some scores, still awaiting re-confirmation