MariaDB innovation: vector index performance
Summary
A blog post detailing MariaDB's vector index performance improvements, comparing MariaDB 12.3 against 11.8 and PostgreSQL with pgvector, across 100k/500k/1000k dataset sizes. The study, sponsored by the MariaDB Foundation and executed via ann-benchmarks, shows notable gains for larger datasets and lower CPU usage per query, with practical benchmarking setup and configurations described.