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A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 2 comments · first 2026-01-29 · latest 2026-06-26

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  1. Nice project. The 4GB index / ~15s search part made me think zvec might be a good fit here: https://github.com/alibaba/zvec It’s an in-process vector DB, so the “local corpus, no separate server” shape is pretty much what it’s designed…
    comment by bigggbob · 2026-06-26 · in Show HN: Bible as RAG Database
  2. …also the recently released zvec[1], the tagline for which is: The SQLite of Vector Databases. [1]: https://github.com/alibaba/zvec
    comment by woadwarrior01 · 2026-02-17 · in Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite
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    Zvec is a lightweight, fast, in-process vector database
    story by tanelpoder · 2026-02-14 · 0 comments
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    Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database
    story by dvrp · 2026-02-13 · 45 comments
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    Show HN: Zvec – The SQLite of Vector Databases
    story by zvec · 2026-01-29 · 0 comments