Comparing Vector search libraries

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Summary

Benchmarks vector search libraries (Faiss, Scann, Usearch) for speed, memory, and accuracy across dataset sizes from 500 to 1 million samples, with results and code available.

hi i made testing on some vector search libraries to get fastest and most efficient one across **speed, memory usage , and similarity results are to exact search using** dataset sizes from **500 samples up to 1 million**. i compare here different variants of libraries like faiss or Scann or Usearch to see which one use less memory and faster You can view all results here: [Vector DB Benchmark Analysis](https://mohamed-em2m.github.io/vector-search-benchmarks/) Code: [mohamed-em2m/vector-search-benchmarks](https://github.com/mohamed-em2m/vector-search-benchmarks) [mohamed-em2m/vector-search-benchmarks: this repo to share scripts to testing different vector search libraries](https://github.com/mohamed-em2m/vector-search-benchmarks)
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