similarity-search-kit
lucene
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Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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similarity-search-kit
- Similarity-search-kit: on-device text embeddings and semantic search in Swift
- Show HN: SimilaritySearchKit – A package for local text embeddings with CoreML
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What Is a Vector Database
How are you guys thinking about the embedding generation side of things? It seems like that part has a generally hefty compute cost before it even gets into the index - I just open sourced a swift package to try to make that part as easy as possible, the example project exports directly to pinecone. https://github.com/ZachNagengast/similarity-search-kit
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I built a knowledge retrieval library in Swift, looking for feedback 🕵️
Check it out here: https://github.com/ZachNagengast/similarity-search-kit
lucene
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Building an efficient sparse keyword index in Python
First, a review of the landscape. As said in the introduction, there aren't a ton of good options. Apache Lucene is by far the best traditional search index from a speed, performance and functionality standpoint. It's the base for Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and many other projects. But it requires Java.
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Java Panama Vector API Integrated with Apache Lucene
https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues/10047
2. The Panama Vector API allows CPU's that support it to accelerate vector operations: https://openjdk.org/jeps/438
So this allows fast ANN on Lucene for semantic search!
How did people do this before Lucene supported it? Only through entirely different tools?
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What Is a Vector Database
Are they forking Lucene or somehow getting the Lucene devs to increase that limit? Because this PR has been open for over a year now: https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues/11507
- An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
- Lucene 9.4 (optionally) uses Panama's mapped MemorySegments when JDK 19 is detected
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A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work
Lucene's adaptation of Roaring uses the complement idea on a block-wise basis:
https://github.com/apache/lucene/blob/84cae4f27cfd3feb3bb42d...
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How are documents stored in Elasticsearch?
Like someone said, it's in locations as specified in the path.data. Depending on sharing and replication, it could be on more than one host. Elastic uses Apache Lucene to store documents, since it's open source, that rabbit hole will welcome research :-)
- panama/foreign status update
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service
It is pretty clear to me that Elastic is planning to build their ANN features differently than OpenDistro's k-NN implementation, or other plugins modules that extend Easticsearch in similar ways. They now will build on the Apache Lucene capabilities that were collaboratively built "upstream" by a number of individuals, some that work for Amazon and some that work for Elastic.
From the linked issue, it seemed that they were originally planning to develop this as a proprietary feature of Elasticsearch, without contributing the functionality to Apache Lucene, but then changed direction when the Apache Lucene developers (some of which are currently employed to do such work by Amazon) started to build its approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) vector search capabilities. [1]
It's great to see folks that work for Elastic collaborating and building on what is in Apache Lucene to extend the utility of ANN with Hierarchical Navigable Small World Graphs (HNSW) [2]! From this, I think it should be possible to implement an Open Source version of the functionality with a compatible API, if that is something that OpenSearch users seek.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9004
[2] https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/250
What are some alternatives?
chroma - the AI-native open-source embedding database
pisa - PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
pgvector - Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
Typesense - Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences
Victor - What's our vector, Victor? Victor is a toy vector database written in Go.
RoaringBitmap - A better compressed bitset in Java: used by Apache Spark, Netflix Atlas, Apache Pinot, Tablesaw, and many others
GPT4Memory
OpenSearch - 🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
faiss - A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.
Apache Solr - Apache Lucene and Solr open-source search software
hnsqlite - hnsqlite integrates hnswlib and sqlite for simple text embedding search
resin - Vector space index based search engine that's available as a HTTP service or as an embedded library.