Pixeltable

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public

core features withheld

no

Pixeltable's Apache-2.0 repository is public and builds the whole library. Its README describes no enterprise edition or license-gated build; Pixeltable Cloud, in limited beta, runs the same application file as a hosted service beside the library rather than holding any part of it back.

• https://api.github.com/repos/pixeltable/pixeltable recorded 2026-09-02

  Repo metadata - license spdx_id Apache-2.0, private false, archived false, default branch main - for pixeltable/pixeltable.

• https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-07

  LICENSE file is the verbatim Apache-2.0 text.

• https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-07

  README presents the database, orchestration and serving layers as one Apache-2.0 library, with no enterprise edition or license-key-gated build; Pixeltable Cloud, in limited beta, runs the same application file as a hosted service.

Pixeltable is an embedded Python library with no separate server, so its PyPI package is the product itself, not a client to one, and its downloads are a direct usage signal.

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/pixeltable/recent recorded 2026-09-02

  last_month downloads = 5,065 for pixeltable.

Pixeltable stores, indexes and serves its own data and runs models inside computed columns, but self-hosted it is a single node: its operations guide allows one process to write the database and points to Pixeltable Cloud, still in limited beta, for more. Its documentation describes no cluster or distributed mode, and running models only lifts a product above that when it also scales across machines. That leaves it level with pgvector, another single-node store.

• https://docs.pixeltable.com/cloud.md recorded 2026-10-08

  Cloud page: "Run the same application file against a hosted database"; "Pixeltable Cloud is in Limited Beta."; it describes a hosted database and media store, not a cluster mode.

• https://docs.pixeltable.com/howto/deployment/infrastructure.md recorded 2026-10-08

  Infrastructure page: "Default home is `~/.pixeltable`: `pgdata` (PostgreSQL), `media` (generated files), `file_cache` (downloads)", with generated media on "local disk, or the Cloud database's home bucket" or an S3 destination.

• https://docs.pixeltable.com/howto/deployment/operations.md recorded 2026-10-08

  Operations page: "One Python process writes to `~/.pixeltable/pgdata`. Several API workers need a shared volume and still one writer. Two pods on the same `pgdata` corrupt the database." and "If you need more than one process writing the database, use" Pixeltable Cloud.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-08

  README: "Pixeltable is the database, orchestration, and serving layers"; "A transform is a computed column. An index is a declaration, and so is an HTTP route."; "Pixeltable Cloud is in Limited Beta."