Timescale PRISM: Run 100M Vectors on 1/4th Postgres RAM
Timescale pg_vectorsearch and PRISM replace HNSW graphs with RaBitQ-quantized partitions, serving 100M vectors at 21ms on 128GB RAM with 51x faster builds.
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Timescale pg_vectorsearch and PRISM replace HNSW graphs with RaBitQ-quantized partitions, serving 100M vectors at 21ms on 128GB RAM with 51x faster builds.
A vLLM report shows decode speed dropping to 0.5–5 tok/s during long prefills. Learn what the data proves, what it does not, and how to diagnose it.
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An empirical systems audit of HNSW vs. IVF-PQ indexing across 100 million 1536-dimensional vectors. Benchmarking Qdrant, OpenSearch, Milvus, and Faiss on RAM footprint, Recall@10, QPS throughput, and NVMe disk-spilling economics.