HNSW vs IVF-PQ: You Are Paying for Recall in RAM
Every vector database comparison starts with recall at a fixed latency, and every one of them concludes that the graph index wins. That conclusion is correct and almost useless, because it compares algorithms at a memory budget nobody constrained. In production the constraint is not latency, it is…
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- 2026-11-03 02:48 · DEV Community — AI
HNSW vs IVF-PQ: You Are Paying for Recall in RAM