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Postgres extension for vector search (DiskANN), complements pgvector for performance and scale. Postgres OSS licensed.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2024-06-11 · latest 2025-12-30

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  1. correct afaik :( https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale/issues/113
    comment by tacoooooooo · 2025-12-30 · in Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale
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    Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale
    story by flyaway123 · 2025-12-24 · 25 comments
  3. …an approach https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583552 which pgvectorscale implements here: https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale?tab=readme-ov-fil... In theory these can be more efficient than plain pre/post filtering.
    comment by jascha_eng · 2025-11-03 · in The Case Against PGVector
  4. …didn't know the extension had other applications. Looks like you've expanded into vector indexing - https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale - and an extension which bakes RAG patterns (including running prompts from SQL queries) into…
    comment by simonw · 2025-02-22 · in Reliably replicating data between Postgres and ClickHouse
  5. …filtering, ensuring more accurate filtered search with Postgres. See [2] for details. [1]: https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale [2]: https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-we-made-postgresql-as-fas...
    comment by avthar · 2024-10-30 · in Vector databases are the wrong abstraction
  6. …but as with everything on the internet, you can make up your own mind and decide for yourself. [0]: https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale/ [1]: https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-we-made-postgresql-as-fas... [2]…
    comment by avthar · 2024-09-14 · in PGVector's Missing Features
  7. …from the timescaledb team introduces StreamingDiskANN indexes and compression to pgvector: https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale the sales blurb: > On a benchmark dataset of 50 million Cohere embeddings with 768 dimensions each,…
    comment by nikcub · 2024-09-14 · in PGVector's Missing Features
  8. …happy to answer any questions (or jump into our Discord for more) The pgvectorscale repo is at: https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale
    comment by jamesgresql · 2024-06-11 · in Pgvector Is Now Faster Than Pinecone at 75% Less Cost
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    Pgvectorscale: A complement to pgvector for high performance
    story by tosh · 2024-06-11 · 0 comments