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
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How to deploy Vald on your k3d within 5 minutes
In this post, we’ll show a quick and easy way to perform a similarity search using Vald.
Prerequisites
Before we start, we need to install 4 tools.
- Helm: https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/
- jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
- k3d: https://k3d.io/
- kubectl: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/
If you have Homebrew installed, you…
Why we need the ANN vector search engine?
As you know, in recent decades, information technology has been extremely evolved. The technology evolution such as Smart Phone, 5G Network, Cloud Computing, has been affecting our lifestyle. We can not only search for what you’d like to know but also buy anything on the Internet, sharing and saving images…
The State of Data Retrieval
Nowadays, the need for information retrieval is increasingly based on text and various types of data, including text, images, video, and audio. These technologies are getting more and more advanced every year. The types of data and ways to interpret them are also diversifying. Currently, these technologies are helpful in…
