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Milvus | phalanx | |
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104 | 13 | |
26,857 | 341 | |
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10.0 | 0.0 | |
1 day ago | about 1 year ago | |
Go | Go | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Milvus
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)
Zilliz (zilliz.com) | Hybrid/ONSITE (SF, NYC) | Full-time
I am part of the hiring team for DevRel
NYC - https://boards.greenhouse.io/zilliz/jobs/4307910005
SF - https://boards.greenhouse.io/zilliz/jobs/4317590005
Zilliz is the company behind Milvus (https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus), the most starred vector database on GitHub. Milvus is a distributed vector database that shines in 1B+ vector use cases. Examples include autonomous driving, e-commerce, and drug discovery. (and, of course, RAG)
We are also hiring for other roles that I am not personally involved in the hiring process for such as product managers, software engineers, and recruiters.
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Unlock Advanced Search Capabilities with Milvus and Read about RAG
Get started with Milvus on GitHub.
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Milvus VS pgvecto.rs - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 13 Mar 2024
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How to choose the right type of database
Milvus: An open-source vector database designed for AI and ML applications. It excels in handling large-scale vector similarity searches, making it suitable for recommendation systems, image and video retrieval, and natural language processing tasks.
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Simplifying the Milvus Selection Process
Selecting the right version of open-source Milvus is important to the success of any project leveraging vector search technology. With Milvus offering different versions of its vector database tailored to varying requirements, understanding the significance of selecting the correct version is key for achieving desired outcomes.
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7 Vector Databases Every Developer Should Know!
Milvus is an open-source vector database designed to handle large-scale similarity search and vector indexing. It supports multiple index types and offers highly efficient search capabilities, making it suitable for a wide range of AI and ML applications, including image and video recognition, natural language processing, and recommendation systems.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
Zilliz is hiring! We're looking for REMOTE and/or HYBRID roles in SF
Zilliz is the company behind Milvus (https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus), the most widely adopted vector database. Vector databases are a crucial piece of any technology stack looking to take advantage of unstructured data. Most recently and notably, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). For RAG, vector databases like Milvus are used as the tool to inject customized data. In other words, vector databases make things like customized chat bots, personalized product recommendations, and more possible.
We are hiring for Developer Advocates, Senior+ Level Engineers and Product people, and Talent Acquisition. Check out all the roles here: https://zilliz.com/careers
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Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round
Good on them, I know the crustaceans are out here happy about this raise for a Rust based Vector DB!
(now I'm gonna plug what I work on)
If you're interested in a more scalable vector database written in Go, check out Milvus (https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus)
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Open Source Advent Fun Wraps Up!
But before we do, I do want to say that 🤩 all these lovely Open-Source projects would love a little 🎉💕 love by getting a GitHub star ⭐ for their efforts. Including Open Source Milvus 🥰
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First 15 Open Source Advent projects
1. Milvus by Zilliz | Github
phalanx
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An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
Somewhat related, this guy: https://github.com/mosuka/ seems to be very passionate about search service.
He built two distributed search services:
- https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx, written in Go.
- https://github.com/mosuka/bayard, written in Rust.
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What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
Don’t forget about Phalanx if you like Bleve/Bluge.
- Cloud-native distributed search engine written in Go
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I want to dive into how to make search engines
I've never worked on a project that encompasses as many computer science algorithms as a search engine. There are a lot of topics you can lookup in "Information Storage and Retrieval":
- Tries (patricia, radix, etc...)
- Trees (b-trees, b+trees, merkle trees, log-structured merge-tree, etc..)
- Consensus (raft, paxos, etc..)
- Block storage (disk block size optimizations, mmap files, delta storage, etc..)
- Probabilistic filters (hyperloloog, bloom filters, etc...)
- Binary Search (sstables, sorted inverted indexes, roaring bitmaps)
- Ranking (pagerank, tf/idf, bm25, etc...)
- NLP (stemming, POS tagging, subject identification, sentiment analysis etc...)
- HTML (document parsing/lexing)
- Images (exif extraction, removal, resizing / proxying, etc...)
- Queues (SQS, NATS, Apollo, etc...)
- Clustering (k-means, density, hierarchical, gaussian distributions, etc...)
- Rate limiting (leaky bucket, windowed, etc...)
- Compression
- Applied linear algebra
- Text processing (unicode-normalization, slugify, sanitation, lossless and lossy hashing like metaphone and document fingerprinting)
- etc...
I'm sure there is plenty more I've missed. There are lots of generic structures involved like hashes, linked-lists, skip-lists, heaps and priority queues and this is just to get 2000's level basic tech.
- https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy
- https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic
- https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx
- https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch
- https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve
- https://github.com/thomasjungblut/go-sstables
A lot of people new to this space mistakenly think you can just throw elastic search or postgres fulltext search in front of terabytes of records and have something decent. The problem is that search with good rankings often requires custom storage so calculations can be sharded among multiple nodes and you can do layered ranking without passing huge blobs of results between systems.
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Why Writing Your Own Search Engine Is Hard (2004)
For those curious, I'm on my 3rd search engine as I keep discovering new methods of compactly and efficiently processing and querying results.
There isn't a one-size-fits all approach, but I've never worked on a project that encompasses as many computer science algorithms as a search engine.
- Tries (patricia, radix, etc...)
- Trees (b-trees, b+trees, merkle trees, log-structured merge-tree, etc..)
- Consensus (raft, paxos, etc..)
- Block storage (disk block size optimizations, mmap files, delta storage, etc..)
- Probabilistic filters (hyperloloog, bloom filters, etc...)
- Binary Search (sstables, sorted inverted indexes)
- Ranking (pagerank, tf/idf, bm25, etc...)
- NLP (stemming, POS tagging, subject identification, etc...)
- HTML (document parsing/lexing)
- Images (exif extraction, removal, resizing / proxying, etc...)
- Queues (SQS, NATS, Apollo, etc...)
- Clustering (k-means, density, hierarchical, gaussian distributions, etc...)
- Rate limiting (leaky bucket, windowed, etc...)
- text processing (unicode-normalization, slugify, sanitation, lossless and lossy hashing like metaphone and document fingerprinting)
- etc...
I'm sure there is plenty more I've missed. There are lots of generic structures involved like hashes, linked-lists, skip-lists, heaps and priority queues and this is just to get 2000's level basic tech.
- https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy
- https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic
- https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx
- https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch
- https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve
A lot of people new to this space mistakenly think you can just throw elastic search or postgres fulltext search in front of terabytes of records and have something decent. That might work for something small like a curated collection of a few hundred sites.
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Show HN: I built a self hosted recommendation feed to escape Google's algorithm
Is there a tool that automatically forwards every URL + HTML of the page you visit to a webhook so you could write an endpoint that would index everything?
If not, I would love to see this add a "forward to webhook" option. I would be happy to write up a real backend that parsed the content and indexed it.
Actually, there are lots of OS projects for this: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy, https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic, https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx, https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch, etc...
- Phalanx is a cloud-native distributed search engine with REST API written in Go
- Phalanx v0.3.0, a distributed search engine written in Go, has been released
- Phalanx 0.2.0, a distributed search engine written in Go, has been released
- Phalanx - A cloud-native full-text search and indexing server written in Go built on top of Bluge
What are some alternatives?
pgvector - Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
tantivy - Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
faiss - A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.
ipfs-search - Search engine for the Interplanetary Filesystem.
qdrant - Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/
MeiliSearch - A lightning-fast search API that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow
Weaviate - Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database.
markov - Materials for book: "Markov Chains for programmers"
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
go-sstables - Go library for protobuf compatible sstables, a skiplist, a recordio format and other database building blocks like a write-ahead log. Ships now with an embedded key-value store.
Face Recognition - The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line
search-engines - Reviewing alternative search engines