# Introduction

## Overview of Deep Lake's High-Performance Compute Engine built in C++

#### Compute Engine offers high-performance implementations of compute-heavy Deep Lake features, such as distributed dataloading, large queries, and indexing. 

**The engine is built in C++, the user interface is still in Python**, and it is installed from compiled C++ binaries using: `pip install "deeplake[enterprise]"`, 

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In order to use Compute Engine, Deep Lake data must be stored in Deep Lake Storage, or in the user's cloud while being connected to Deep Lake using [Managed Credentials](https://docs-v3.activeloop.ai/v3.7.0/storage-and-credentials/managed-credentials). 
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### Features Optimized in the Compute Engine:

{% content-ref url="performant-dataloader" %}
[performant-dataloader](https://docs-v3.activeloop.ai/v3.7.0/performance-features/performant-dataloader)
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{% content-ref url="querying-datasets" %}
[querying-datasets](https://docs-v3.activeloop.ai/v3.7.0/performance-features/querying-datasets)
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{% content-ref url="index-for-ann-search" %}
[index-for-ann-search](https://docs-v3.activeloop.ai/v3.7.0/performance-features/index-for-ann-search)
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{% content-ref url="managed-database" %}
[managed-database](https://docs-v3.activeloop.ai/v3.7.0/performance-features/managed-database)
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