An early look at HNSW performance with pgvector

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  • pgvector

    Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres

  • This is a first look at the performance of pgvector’s HNSW implementation at a specific commit[0].

    HNSW will be merged in v0.5.0 (which is imminent now). The results are very promising for the Postgres ecosystem, as the HNSW index shows a significant performance/recall improvement over the current ivfflat index in pgvector.

    [0] https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/commit/600ca5a7

  • pgvecto.rs

    Scalable, Low-latency and Hybrid-enabled Vector Search in Postgres. Revolutionize Vector Search, not Database.

  • Seems that pgvector has a viable competitor extension: https://github.com/tensorchord/pgvecto.rs

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