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Re:HorizonDB, a geocoding engine in Rust that replaces Elast... by whakim on Saturday August 09, 2025 @07:05PM (#44851199)
Would you mind putting aside the snark? I have a couple questions. How large is the corpus? I am also curious about the use-case for top-k ANN, k > 10000?
Re:HorizonDB, a geocoding engine in Rust that replaces Elast... by farsa on Saturday August 09, 2025 @08:45PM (#44851804)
Not the person you have asked but at work (we are a CRM platform) we allow our clients to arbitrarily query their userbase to find matching users for marketing campaigns (email, sms, whatsapp). These campaigns can some times target a few hundred thousand people. We are on a really ancient version of ES, but it sucks at this job in terms of throughput. Some experimenting with bigquery indicates it is so much better at mass exporting.
Re:HorizonDB, a geocoding engine in Rust that replaces Elast... by whakim on Saturday August 09, 2025 @09:23PM (#44852005)
Fair; my question was mostly in the context of ANN, since that was the discussion point - I have to assume ES (as a search engine) would not necessarily be the right tool for data warehousing types of workloads.