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Mayya Sharipova reassigned LUCENE-10194:
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Assignee: Mayya Sharipova
> Should IndexWriter buffer KNN vectors on disk?
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> Key: LUCENE-10194
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-10194
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Adrien Grand
> Assignee: Mayya Sharipova
> Priority: Minor
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> VectorValuesWriter buffers data in memory, like we do for all data structures
> that are computed on flush. But I wonder if this is the right trade-off.
> The use-case I have in mind is someone trying to load a dataset of vectors in
> Lucene. Given that HNSW graphs are super expensive to create, we'd ideally
> load that dataset into a single segment rather than many small segments that
> then need to be merged together, which in-turn re-creates the HNSW graph.
> Yet buffering vectors in memory is expensive. For instance assuming 256
> dimensions, each vector consumes 1kB of memory. Should we consider buffering
> vectors on disk to reduce chances of having to create new segments only
> because the RAM buffer is full?
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