A new version of v1.5.0, a minor update, has been available since last week. The principal update is Vald applies a new feature, CoW(Copy on Write), for safety backup with Persistent Volume. This post describes the background and mechanism of CoW. For more details of changes, please refer to CHANGELOG. What is the CoW? …

Profiling is the way of showing the application resource usage. Continuous profiling is the process of continuously collecting application performance. It helps developers to analyze it more deeply. Nowadays, the demand for continuous profiling is increasing. Vald also applies continuous profiling using Pyroscope from v1.4. This post briefly introduces the…

From v1.4, Vald supports Linear Search API since NGT released Linear Search CAPI from v1.13.8. This post introduces what Linear Search is and the usage of Linear Search API. NOTE: Current Linear Search API has a timeout setting as the mandatory setting. Please set a long time as `Search_Config.timeout`. …

We will release v1.4.0 this week. From v1.3, Vald has some updating! The main update is here: LinearSearch of NGT is now available on Vald! FP16 mode for NGT is available! Pyroscope for continuous profiling Vald cluster is available! Added original gRPC status codec Improved search config and error code …

The quality of the software is mainly divided into two categories: Software functional quality Software structural quality Software functional quality reflects how the software meets the requirement or specification. …

This is an introduction to the background and content of vald-demo repository that was recently released. Why did we create this repository? Vald is a highly scalable distributed fast approximate nearest neighbor dense vector search engine. Vald is a newly made OSS project and is still not popular yet. Now, we are working on growing the…

Case study of logo designs and design assets for OSS. Introduction With many OSSs available, a visual identity including logos is important to give originality to OSS created by each individual, and as icons to symbolize abstract functions of OSS. …

Vald provides high-scalable, and high-speed vector approximate neighbours search features to users. However, there are many usages of the vector search. It is not easy to imagine how users can use it in their services. …

We decided to focus on developing a more simple and fast Vald as a Cloud-Native ANN search engine. Along with this decision, we also chose to deprecate some internal components that do not fit the way our going. This change will make Vald more usable and more maintainable for users. Deprecated Components …