Why Isolated Vector Database Benchmarks Are Useless
If you judge a vector database by its raw QPS on a static HNSW index, you are buying a sports car based entirely on how fast it rolls down a hill. Most published benchmarks test storage engines in sterile isolation. They load a million synthetic embeddings, run single-threaded nearest neighbor quer…
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- 2026-10-05 18:38 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Why Isolated Vector Database Benchmarks Are Useless