SCALING HNSWS

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The Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm is a graph-based approximate nearest neighbor search technique used in many vector databases. This post shares advanced findings on HNSWs. HNSWs are resistant to low latency and high performance, so the post is focused on making them fast enough to allow for a 'Redis' experience. It covers the challenges involved in exposing HNSWs as abstract data structures.