Vector Databases at Warehouse Scale Quietly Break Top-K Search
TL;DR — Running vector search at warehouse scale forces you to partition the index by tenant, time, or shard — but that partitioning breaks the global top-k guarantee vector search is supposed to provide. You end up stacking two approximations: the ANN algorithm's recall loss, and a merge-across-sh…
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- 2026-11-08 14:16 · DEV Community — AI
Vector Databases at Warehouse Scale Quietly Break Top-K Search