Overview
Introduction
Layer Community Edition is the same standalone retrieval gateway included in Pro, ready to run on your laptop or in your pipeline.
Run it in front of Turbopuffer to add query routing and hybrid fusion, scans and facets, and federated queries.
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The quickstart runs the gateway with Docker Compose in front of your Turbopuffer account and returns your first search result. Data stays in Turbopuffer; the gateway is the API entry point.
Connect and query
Use the Python, Go, or TypeScript clients, or curl. Write rows and vectors, query with vector or text ranking, scan matching rows, and federate across named namespaces.
Configuration describes standalone connections and authentication.
Observe
Use health and metrics to check the gateway and failure modes to diagnose request errors.