Vector Databases
Weaviate 1.30.0 BlockMax WAND: Hybrid Search BM25 Stage Dropped
Weaviate 1.30.0, per the release notes , promotes BlockMax WAND from a 1.28 technical preview to the default BM25 scorer for new collections.
Inside FAISS IVF-PQ: how coarse quantization and product
Follow faiss ivfpq how it works with the key steps, checks, and trade-offs that matter when applying it in practice.
Qdrant Binary Quantization Cuts MiniLM Search Latency 4x
Qdrant Binary Quantization Cuts Sentence-Transformers Search Latency 4x Qdrant’s binary quantization compresses each float32 vector dimension to a single.