Haystack DB – 10x faster than FAISS with binary embeddings by default

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  2. InfluxDB

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  3. haystack

    AI orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications. Connect components (models, vector DBs, file converters) to pipelines or agents that can interact with your data. With advanced retrieval methods, it's best suited for building RAG, question answering, semantic search or conversational agent chatbots.

    I was confused for a bit but there is no relation to https://haystack.deepset.ai/

  4. faiss

    A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.

    There are also FAISS binary indexes[0], so it'd be great to compare binary index vs binary index. Otherwise it seems a little misleading to say it is a FAISS vs not FAISS comparison, since really it would be a binary index vs not binary index comparison. I'm not too familiar with binary indexes, so if there's a significant difference between the types of binary index then it'd be great to explain what that is too.

    [0] https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Binary-indexe...

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