wuzhengxuan/vearch

distributed vector search for AI-native applications

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Overview

Vearch is a cloud-native distributed vector database for efficient similarity search of embedding vectors in your AI applications.

Key features

• Hybrid search: Both vector search and scalar filtering.

• Performance: Fast vector retrieval - search from millions of objects in milliseconds.

• Scalability & Reliability: Replication and elastic scaling out.

Document

• Tutorial

Quick start

Deploy vearch cluster on k8s

Add charts through the repo

$ helm repo add vearch https://vearch.github.io/vearch-helm
$ helm repo update && helm install my-release vearch/vearch

Add charts from local

$ git clone https://github.com/vearch/vearch-helm.git && cd vearch-helm
$ helm install my-release ./charts -f ./charts/values.yaml

Start by docker-compose

$ cd cloud
$ cp ../config/config.toml .
$ docker-compose up

Deploy by docker: Quickly start with vearch docker image, please see DeployByDocker

Compile by source code: Quickly compile the source codes, please see SourceCompileDeployment

APIs and Use Cases

VisualSearch: Vearch can be leveraged to build a complete visual search system to index billions of images. The image retrieval plugin for object detection and feature extraction is also required. For more information, please refer to Quickstart.md.

PythonSDK: APIPythonSDK.md Vearch Python SDK enables vearch to use locally. Vearch python sdk can be installed easily by pip install vearch.

Components

Vearch Architecture

Master: Responsible for schema mananagement, cluster-level metadata, and resource coordination.

Router: Provides RESTful API: upsert, delete, search and query; request routing, and result merging.

PartitionServer (PS): Hosts document partitions with raft-based replication. Gamma is the core vector search engine implemented based on faiss. It provides the ability of storing, indexing and retrieving the vectors and scalars.

Reference

Reference to cite when you use Vearch in a research paper:

@misc{li2019design,
      title={The Design and Implementation of a Real Time Visual Search System on JD E-commerce Platform}, 
      author={Jie Li and Haifeng Liu and Chuanghua Gui and Jianyu Chen and Zhenyun Ni and Ning Wang},
      year={2019},
      eprint={1908.07389},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR}
}

Community

You can report bugs or ask questions in the issues page of the repository.

For public discussion of Vearch or for questions, you can also send email to [email protected].

Our slack : https://vearchwrokspace.slack.com

Known Users

Welcome to register the company name in this issue: vearch#230 (in order of registration)

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. For detail see LICENSE and NOTICE.