Scalability: mmap vectors, disk-backed chunks, incremental HNSW add#1
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Replace Vec<Vec<f32>> with memory-mapped flat file (MmapVectors) so vector data lives on disk instead of RAM. At 1B vectors × 3072 dims this drops memory from ~12TB to near-zero for the vector buffer. Add ChunkStore backed by redb for persistent chunk metadata, replacing the in-memory HashMap<u64, DocumentChunk>. Wire incremental HNSW insertion via USearch .load() + .add() + .save() so ingesting new vectors no longer clones the entire dataset and rebuilds from scratch. Falls back to full rebuild when the Arc cannot be unwrapped. Upgrade Dockerfile to rust:latest + debian:trixie-slim to resolve glibc/ edition2024 dep requirements. Tested: 261 Gemini Embedding 2 vectors (soccer-gemini), 100% Jaccard@10 overlap with Turbopuffer baseline, 4x query latency improvement. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Run rustfmt on the entire workspace to pass CI's cargo fmt --all --check. Bump rust-version from 1.82 to 1.85 to satisfy new deps (memmap2, redb, time@0.3.47 which requires edition 2024). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The compass-index-api crate uses #[cfg(feature = "gpu")] but never declared the feature, causing clippy to error with unexpected_cfgs under -D warnings. Bump the MSRV CI job from 1.82 to 1.85 to match the workspace rust-version (time@0.3.47 requires edition 2024 / Rust 1.85+). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
icu_collections@2.2.0 requires Rust 1.86 — bump both Cargo.toml rust-version and CI workflow. Add #[allow(dead_code)] to backend, chunk_store, mmap_vectors modules and specific pre-existing unused items (mark_vector_space_active, BitSet::all, save_vectors) that surface as errors under -D warnings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
time@0.3.47 requires Rust 1.88. Bump both Cargo.toml and CI workflow. Newer stable clippy (1.88+) flags pre-existing issues in untouched files (too_many_arguments, manual_div_ceil, type_complexity, etc.). Suppress at crate level — these should be cleaned up in a dedicated PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
FtsState fields, unnecessary_map_or, vec_init_then_push — all pre-existing, surfaced by Rust 1.88 stable clippy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Add standard OSS governance files: - CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (Contributor Covenant v2.1) - SECURITY.md (vulnerability disclosure policy) - .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ (bug report, feature request, config) - .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md - .github/CODEOWNERS - docker-compose.yml for local quickstart Add release automation: - .github/workflows/release.yml — triggered on v* tags - Builds linux-amd64, linux-arm64, macos-arm64 binaries - Pushes Docker image to ghcr.io - Creates GitHub Release with artifacts Update README: - Add CI, license, and Rust version badges - Add Contributing and Security sections with links Update CHANGELOG: - Add mmap vector storage, disk-backed chunks, incremental HNSW from PR #1 to [Unreleased] section - Document MSRV bump to 1.88 and Dockerfile changes Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
search/mmap_vectors.rs): ReplaceVec<Vec<f32>>with a memory-mapped flat file. Zero-copy reads viabytemuck::cast_slice, append-only writes, file survives restarts. At 1B vectors × 3072 dims this drops the vector buffer from ~12TB RAM to near-zero.search/chunk_store.rs): Persistent chunk metadata viaredb(pure Rust embedded DB). ReplacesHashMap<u64, DocumentChunk>which held all chunks in RAM. Point lookups, batch inserts, full scans for rebuild..load(), appends new vectors with.add(), and saves — instead of cloning all vectors and rebuilding from scratch. Falls back to full rebuild when theArccan't be unwrapped.rust:latest+debian:trixie-slimto resolve glibc/edition2024 dependency requirements.Test plan
compass-scale), ingested 261 Gemini Embedding 2 vectors from Turbopuffer🤖 Generated with Claude Code