manticoresoftware / manticoresoftware/columnar

Try Annoy instead of HNSW

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Description

We recently added HNSW support for KNN to this library. Together with Manticore Search it works so - https://manual.manticoresearch.com/dev/Searching/KNN#K-nearest-neighbor-search

It would be great to implement, test and bechmark https://github.com/spotify/annoy vs the integrated hnsw library in the context of Manticore Search.

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Research direction

Start with the linked Manticore Search KNN documentation and compare the existing HNSW integration with Spotify Annoy. The issue does not name files or tests; done means implementing Annoy support, testing it, and benchmarking it against HNSW in the Manticore Search context.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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