π Zvec Γ DiskANN: Scale to Hundreds of Millions of Vectors Without Burning Through RAM
Traditional in-memory vector indexes become extremely expensive at scale, often forcing teams to upgrade to high-end servers and undermining the promise of lightweight deployment.
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π High performance made simple.
- Github: github.com/alibaba/zvec
- Discord: discord.gg/rKddFBBu9z
Joined February 2026
- π Zvec 0.6.0 Release is Live! This release brings major upgrades across retrieval, compute optimization, deployment experience, and the quantization framework. Upgrade and give it a try! β¨What's new: β’ πRetrieval: New Group-By search with per-group Top-K support,
- π New blog post: Zvec now has native full-text search With v0.5.0, Zvec can handle keyword recall, BM25 scoring, phrase queries, Boolean queries, and FTS Γ vector hybrid search inside the same embedded vector database. No separate Elasticsearch sidecar. No dual writes. No
- π±What if your phone could search its own memory? To explore Zvec Flutter SDK on mobile, we built PocketSearch: an on-device search app that starts with intelligent local photo search on Android and iOS. It shows how Zvec can power fast, local retrieval today, and points toward
- π Zvec 0.5.0 Release is Live! This release focuses on retrieval, indexing, ecosystem, and platform & hardware. Give it a try and let us know what you think! β¨ β¨ What's new: β’ π Retrieval: Native full-text search works out of the box; a single query fuses full-text

