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usearch
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I'm writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
Might have a look at this library:
https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch
It does HNSW and there is a SQLite related project, though not quite the same thing.
- USearch SQLite Extensions for Vector and Text Search
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Ask HN: What is the state of art approximate k-NN search algorithm today?
Another worth mentioning in this thread is usearch, though not a separate algorithm, based on HNSW with a bunch of optimizations https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch
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Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf]
I've used usearch successfully for a small project: https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch/
- 90x Faster Than Pgvector β Lantern's HNSW Index Creation Time
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Python, C, Assembly β Faster Cosine Similarity
The hardest (still missing) part of efficient cosine computation distance computation is picking a good epsilon for the `sqrt` calculation and avoiding "division by zero" problems.
We have an open issue about it in USearch and a related one in SimSIMD itself, so if you have any suggestions, please share your insights - they would impact millions of devices using the library (directly on servers and mobile, and through projects like ClickHouse and some of the Google repos): https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch/issues/320
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Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine
As you scale, you may benefit from these two projects I maintain, and the Big Tech uses :)
https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch - for faster search
https://github.com/unum-cloud/uform - for cheaper multi-lingual multi-modal embeddings
- [P] unum-cloud/usearch: Fastest Open-Source Similarity Search engine for Vectors in Python, JavaScript, C++, C, Rust, Java, Objective-C, Swift, C#, GoLang, and Wolfram π
- USearch: SIMD-accelerated Vector Search Structure for 10 Programming Languages
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Stringzilla: Fastest string sort, search, split, and shuffle using SIMD
> It doesn't appear to query CPUID
Yes, I'm actually looking for a good way to do it for other projects as well. I've looked into a couple more libs, and here is the best I've come up with so far: https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch/blob/f942b6f334b31716f...
> Your substring routines have multiplicative worst case
Yes, that is true. It's a very simple stupid trick, just happens to work well for me :)
> It seems quite likely that your confirmation step
We have a different library internally at Unum, that avoids this shortcoming. It has a few thousand lines of C++ templates with SIMD intrinsics... and it's definitely more efficient, but the margins aren't always high. So I kept the pure C version with inlined functions as minimal and simple as possible.
> It would actually be possible to hook Stringzilla up to `memchr`'s benchmark suite if you were interested. :-)
Yes, that would be a fun thing to do! I haven't had time to look into `memchr` yet, but would expect great perf from your lib as well. For me the State of the Art is Intel HyperScan. Probably the most advanced SIMD library overall, not just for strings. I was very impressed with their perf ~5 years ago. But the repo is 200 K LOC... So get ready to invest a weekend :)
That said, I'm a bit slammed with work right now, including open-source. Hoping to ship a new major release in UCall this week, and a minor one in USearch :)
pgvector
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Integrate txtai with Postgres
# Install Postgres and pgvector !apt-get update && apt install postgresql postgresql-server-dev-14 !git clone --branch v0.6.2 https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector.git !cd pgvector && make && make install # Start database !service postgresql start !sudo -u postgres psql -U postgres -c "ALTER USER postgres PASSWORD 'pass';"
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Vector Database solutions on AWS
When talking about Vector Databases, in the market we can find the specialized ones and multi-model, most of the major database providers like Oracle, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, for mention some of them, have integrated a specific solution to retrieve vector data.
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Using pgvector To Locate Similarities In Enterprise Data
For this example, I wanted to focus on how pgvector β an open-source vector similarity search for Postgres β can be used to identify data similarities that exist in enterprise data.
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pgvector vs. pgvecto.rs in 2024: A Comprehensive Comparison for Vector Search in PostgreSQL
pgvector supports dense vector search well, but it does not have plan to support sparse vector.
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Pg_vectorize: The simplest way to do vector search and RAG on Postgres
There's an issue in the pgvector repo about someone having several ~10-20million row tables and getting acceptable performance with the right hardware and some performance tuning: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/455
I'm in the early stages of evaluating pgvector myself. but having used pinecone I currently am liking pgvector better because of it being open source. The indexing algorithm is clear, one can understand and modify the parameters. Furthermore the database is postgresql, not a proprietary document store. When the other data in the problem is stored relationally, it is very convenient to have the vectors stored like this as well. And postgresql has good observability and metrics. I think when it comes to flexibility for specialized applications, pgvector seems like the clear winner. But I can definitely see pinecone's appeal if vector search is not a core component of the problem/business, as it is very easy to use and scales very easily
- FLaNK 04 March 2024
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Vector Database and Spring IA
The Spring AI project aims to streamline the development of applications that incorporate artificial intelligence functionality without unnecessary complexity. On this example we use features like: Embedding, Prompts, ETL and save all embedding on PGvector(Postgres Vector database)
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Use pgvector for searching images on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Official GitHub repository of the pgvector extension
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pgvector 0.6.0: 30x faster with parallel index builds
pgvector 0.6.0 was just released and will be available on Supabase projects soon. Again, a special shout out to Andrew Kane and everyone else who worked on parallel index builds.
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Store embeddings in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with pgvector
The pgvector extension adds vector similarity search capabilities to your PostgreSQL database. To use the extension, you have to first create it in your database. You can install the extension, by connecting to your database and running the CREATE EXTENSION command from the psql command prompt:
What are some alternatives?
StringZilla - Up to 10x faster strings for C, C++, Python, Rust, and Swift, leveraging SWAR and SIMD on Arm Neon and x86 AVX2 & AVX-512-capable chips to accelerate search, sort, edit distances, alignment scores, etc π¦
Milvus - A cloud-native vector database, storage for next generation AI applications
ustore - Multi-Modal Database replacing MongoDB, Neo4J, and Elastic with 1 faster ACID solution, with NetworkX and Pandas interfaces, and bindings for C 99, C++ 17, Python 3, Java, GoLang ποΈ
faiss - A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.
uform - Pocket-Sized Multimodal AI for content understanding and generation across multilingual texts, images, and π video, up to 5x faster than OpenAI CLIP and LLaVA πΌοΈ & ποΈ
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 databaseβ.
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
SimSIMD - Up to 200x Faster Inner Products and Vector Similarity β for Python, JavaScript, Rust, and C, supporting f64, f32, f16 real & complex, i8, and binary vectors using SIMD for both x86 AVX2 & AVX-512 and Arm NEON & SVE π
qdrant - Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/
kuzu - Embeddable property graph database management system built for query speed and scalability. Implements Cypher.
ann-benchmarks - Benchmarks of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python