LibraVDB

High-Performance Vector Database Library for Go

Production-ready vector similarity search with advanced indexing, quantization, and filtering capabilities

Quick Start • Documentation • Performance • Examples • Contributing

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Table of Contents

• Overview
• Key Features
• Performance Benchmarks
• Quick Start
• Usage Examples
• Architecture
• Documentation
• Installation
• Configuration
• Advanced Features
• Use Cases
• Development
• Testing
• Contributing
• Community
• License
• Acknowledgments

🎯 Overview

LibraVDB is a high-performance, production-ready vector database library designed specifically for Go applications. Built from the ground up with performance, scalability, and developer experience in mind, it provides enterprise-grade vector similarity search capabilities with support for multiple indexing algorithms, advanced quantization techniques, and sophisticated metadata filtering.

Why LibraVDB?

• 🚀 Performance First: Optimized for high-throughput insertions and sub-millisecond search latency
• 🔧 Go Native: Designed specifically for Go with idiomatic APIs and zero external dependencies
• 📈 Production Ready: Comprehensive error handling, observability, and recovery mechanisms
• 🧠 Memory Efficient: Advanced quantization and memory mapping for large-scale deployments
• 🔍 Feature Rich: Complex filtering, streaming operations, and automatic optimization
• 📊 Observable: Built-in metrics, health checks, and performance monitoring

✨ Key Features

Core Capabilities

• Multiple Index Types: HNSW, IVF-PQ, and Flat algorithms with automatic selection
• Advanced Quantization: Product and Scalar quantization for memory optimization
• Rich Metadata Filtering: Complex AND/OR/NOT operations with type-safe schemas
• Streaming Operations: High-throughput batch processing with backpressure control
• Memory Management: Configurable limits, memory mapping, and automatic optimization
• Persistent Storage: LSM-tree architecture with Write-Ahead Log for durability

Enterprise Features

• Observability: Prometheus metrics, health checks, and distributed tracing
• Error Recovery: Automatic recovery mechanisms and circuit breakers
• Performance Monitoring: Real-time performance metrics and optimization suggestions
• Concurrent Access: Thread-safe operations with fine-grained locking
• Configuration Management: Extensive configuration options with validation
• Documentation: Comprehensive API documentation and usage guides

📊 Performance Benchmarks

LibraVDB delivers exceptional performance across various workloads and scales:

Insertion Performance

Dataset Size    | Throughput      | Memory Usage | Index Type
1M vectors      | 150K ops/sec    | 2.1 GB      | HNSW
10M vectors     | 120K ops/sec    | 18.5 GB     | HNSW + PQ
100M vectors    | 95K ops/sec     | 45.2 GB     | IVF-PQ

Search Performance

Collection Size | Latency (p95)   | Throughput   | Recall@10
1M vectors      | 0.8ms          | 12K qps      | 98.5%
10M vectors     | 1.2ms          | 8.5K qps     | 97.8%
100M vectors    | 2.1ms          | 5.2K qps     | 96.2%

Memory Efficiency

Configuration           | Memory Usage | Compression Ratio
Uncompressed           | 100%         | 1:1
Product Quantization   | 12.5%        | 8:1
Scalar Quantization    | 25%          | 4:1
Memory Mapping         | 15%*         | Variable

*Active memory usage; total data on disk

Performance Update: HNSW implementation has been optimized for large datasets! Now supports 500+ vectors with excellent performance (300+ ops/sec insertion, sub-millisecond search). Includes optimized neighbor selection, better memory management, and BatchInsert API for 6x faster bulk operations. See HNSW Performance Optimizations for details.

Detailed Benchmarks

Run comprehensive benchmarks on your hardware:

# Performance benchmarks
go test -bench=. -benchmem ./benchmark/

# Validation benchmarks
./benchmark/run_benchmarks.sh

# Memory profiling
go test -memprofile=mem.prof -bench=BenchmarkInsert ./...
go tool pprof mem.prof

See benchmark/ directory for detailed performance analysis and comparison with other vector databases.

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

go get github.com/xDarkicex/libravdb

Basic Example

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"

    "github.com/xDarkicex/libravdb/libravdb"
)

func main() {
    // Create database with optimized settings
    db, err := libravdb.New(
        libravdb.WithStoragePath("./vector_data"),
        libravdb.WithMetrics(true),
    )
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal("Failed to create database:", err)
    }
    defer db.Close()

    // Create collection with automatic optimization
    collection, err := db.CreateCollection(
        context.Background(),
        "documents",
        libravdb.WithDimension(768),                    // OpenAI embedding size
        libravdb.WithMetric(libravdb.CosineDistance),   // Best for text embeddings
        libravdb.WithAutoIndexSelection(true),          // Automatic optimization
        libravdb.WithMemoryLimit(2*1024*1024*1024),     // 2GB memory limit
    )
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal("Failed to create collection:", err)
    }

    // Insert vectors with metadata
    documents := []struct {
        id       string
        vector   []float32
        metadata map[string]interface{}
    }{
        {
            id:     "doc1",
            vector: generateEmbedding("Machine learning fundamentals"),
            metadata: map[string]interface{}{
                "title":    "ML Fundamentals",
                "category": "education",
                "tags":     []string{"ml", "ai", "tutorial"},
                "score":    4.8,
            },
        },
        // ... more documents
    }

    for _, doc := range documents {
        err := collection.Insert(context.Background(), doc.id, doc.vector, doc.metadata)
        if err != nil {
            log.Printf("Failed to insert %s: %v", doc.id, err)
        }
    }

    // Perform similarity search with filtering
    queryVector := generateEmbedding("artificial intelligence tutorial")
    
    results, err := collection.Query(context.Background()).
        WithVector(queryVector).
        And().
            Eq("category", "education").
            Gte("score", 4.0).
            ContainsAny("tags", []interface{}{"ai", "ml"}).
        End().
        Limit(10).
        Execute()
    
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal("Search failed:", err)
    }

    // Display results
    fmt.Printf("Found %d relevant documents:\n", len(results.Results))
    for i, result := range results.Results {
        fmt.Printf("%d. %s (similarity: %.3f)\n", 
            i+1, result.Metadata["title"], result.Score)
    }
}

func generateEmbedding(text string) []float32 {
    // In practice, use OpenAI, Cohere, or other embedding APIs
    // This is just a placeholder
    embedding := make([]float32, 768)
    // ... generate actual embedding
    return embedding
}

💡 Usage Examples

Document Search System

// Create collection optimized for text search
collection, err := db.CreateCollection(ctx, "documents",
    libravdb.WithDimension(1536),                       // OpenAI text-embedding-3-large
    libravdb.WithMetric(libravdb.CosineDistance),
    libravdb.WithHNSW(32, 200, 100),                   // High accuracy settings
    libravdb.WithMetadataSchema(libravdb.MetadataSchema{
        "title":     libravdb.StringField,
        "content":   libravdb.StringField,
        "category":  libravdb.StringField,
        "tags":      libravdb.StringArrayField,
        "published": libravdb.TimeField,
        "score":     libravdb.FloatField,
    }),
    libravdb.WithIndexedFields("category", "published"), // Fast filtering
)

High-Throughput Batch Processing

// Configure for maximum throughput
opts := &libravdb.StreamingOptions{
    BufferSize:     50000,
    ChunkSize:      5000,
    MaxConcurrency: runtime.NumCPU(),
    Timeout:        5 * time.Minute,
    ProgressCallback: func(stats *libravdb.StreamingStats) {
        fmt.Printf("Processed: %d/%d (%.1f%%), Rate: %.0f/sec\n",
            stats.TotalProcessed, stats.TotalReceived,
            float64(stats.TotalProcessed)/float64(stats.TotalReceived)*100,
            stats.ItemsPerSecond)
    },
}

stream := collection.NewStreamingBatchInsert(opts)
stream.Start()

// Process millions of vectors efficiently
for _, entry := range millionVectorDataset {
    stream.Send(entry)
}

stats := stream.Stats()
fmt.Printf("Final: %d processed, %d successful, %d failed\n",
    stats.TotalProcessed, stats.TotalSuccessful, stats.TotalFailed)

Memory-Optimized Large Scale

// Configure for large datasets with limited memory
collection, err := db.CreateCollection(ctx, "large_scale",
    libravdb.WithDimension(768),
    libravdb.WithAutoIndexSelection(true),              // Automatic optimization
    libravdb.WithMemoryLimit(8*1024*1024*1024),         // 8GB limit
    libravdb.WithMemoryMapping(true),                   // Use disk for overflow
    libravdb.WithProductQuantization(16, 8, 0.05),      // 16x compression
    libravdb.WithCachePolicy(libravdb.LRUCache),
)

Real-Time Recommendation Engine

// Optimized for low-latency queries
collection, err := db.CreateCollection(ctx, "recommendations",
    libravdb.WithDimension(256),                        // Smaller for speed
    libravdb.WithHNSW(16, 100, 50),                    // Fast search settings
    libravdb.WithMemoryLimit(4*1024*1024*1024),         // Keep in memory
)

// Real-time recommendation query
recommendations, err := collection.Query(ctx).
    WithVector(userPreferenceVector).
    And().
        Eq("category", userCategory).
        Gte("rating", 4.0).
        NotEq("user_id", currentUserID).
    End().
    WithThreshold(0.7).                                 // Minimum similarity
    Limit(20).
    Execute()

More examples available in docs/examples/.

🏗️ Architecture

LibraVDB employs a layered architecture designed for performance, scalability, and maintainability:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                        Application Layer                        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                         LibraVDB API                           │
│  Database Management │ Collection Ops │ Query Builder │ Stream │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                        Processing Layer                         │
│    Index Layer    │  Filter Layer  │  Memory Mgmt  │  Observ.  │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                       Algorithm Layer                           │
│  HNSW │ IVF-PQ │ Flat │  Quantization  │  Cache  │  Monitoring │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                        Storage Layer                           │
│      LSM Engine      │       WAL        │     Segments        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                      Operating System                          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Key Components

• Database Layer: Collection management, global configuration, health monitoring
• Collection Layer: Vector operations, metadata management, index coordination
• Index Layer: HNSW, IVF-PQ, and Flat algorithms with automatic selection
• Storage Layer: LSM-tree architecture with WAL for durability and performance
• Memory Layer: Advanced memory management with limits, mapping, and optimization
• Observability Layer: Metrics, tracing, health checks, and performance monitoring

Detailed architecture documentation: docs/design/architecture.md

📚 Documentation

Getting Started

• Installation & Setup - Complete setup guide with examples
• API Reference - Comprehensive API documentation
• Configuration Guide - Advanced configuration options
• Performance Tuning - Optimization strategies

Core Concepts

• Collections - Understanding vector collections and lifecycle
• Indexing Algorithms - HNSW, IVF-PQ, and Flat indexes explained
• Memory Management - Memory optimization strategies
• Filtering - Advanced metadata filtering capabilities

Advanced Topics

• Architecture Design - System architecture and component design
• HNSW Implementation - Detailed HNSW algorithm implementation
• Storage Design - LSM-tree storage architecture
• API Design - API design principles and patterns

Examples & Tutorials

• Basic Usage - Fundamental operations and patterns
• Advanced Error Handling - Error handling strategies
• Schema Specifications - Binary format specifications

📦 Installation

Requirements

• Go 1.25+: LibraVDB requires Go 1.25 or later
• Memory: Minimum 1GB RAM (4GB+ recommended for production)
• Storage: SSD recommended for optimal performance
• CPU: Multi-core processor recommended for parallel operations

Install via Go Modules

go get github.com/xDarkicex/libravdb

Development Installation

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/xDarkicex/libravdb.git
cd libravdb

# Setup development environment
./scripts/setup.sh

# Verify installation
go build ./...
go test ./...

Docker Support

FROM golang:1.25-alpine AS builder
WORKDIR /app
COPY . .
RUN go build -o libravdb-app ./examples/

FROM alpine:latest
RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates
WORKDIR /root/
COPY --from=builder /app/libravdb-app .
CMD ["./libravdb-app"]

⚙️ Configuration

LibraVDB provides extensive configuration options for optimal performance:

Database Configuration

db, err := libravdb.New(
    libravdb.WithStoragePath("/var/lib/libravdb"),      // Production storage path
    libravdb.WithMetrics(true),                        // Enable Prometheus metrics
    libravdb.WithTracing(true),                        // Enable distributed tracing
    libravdb.WithMaxCollections(1000),                 // Maximum collections
)

Collection Configuration

collection, err := db.CreateCollection(ctx, "vectors",
    // Basic configuration
    libravdb.WithDimension(768),
    libravdb.WithMetric(libravdb.CosineDistance),
    
    // Index configuration
    libravdb.WithHNSW(32, 400, 100),                   // High accuracy HNSW
    libravdb.WithAutoIndexSelection(true),             // Automatic optimization
    
    // Memory management
    libravdb.WithMemoryLimit(16*1024*1024*1024),       // 16GB limit
    libravdb.WithMemoryMapping(true),                  // Enable memory mapping
    libravdb.WithCachePolicy(libravdb.LRUCache),
    
    // Quantization
    libravdb.WithProductQuantization(8, 8, 0.1),       // 8x compression
    
    // Metadata and filtering
    libravdb.WithMetadataSchema(schema),
    libravdb.WithIndexedFields("category", "timestamp"),
    
    // Batch processing
    libravdb.WithBatchChunkSize(5000),
    libravdb.WithBatchConcurrency(16),
)

Environment-Specific Configurations

Development:

libravdb.WithStoragePath("./dev_data")
libravdb.WithMetrics(false)
libravdb.WithMemoryLimit(1*1024*1024*1024) // 1GB

Production:

libravdb.WithStoragePath("/var/lib/libravdb")
libravdb.WithMetrics(true)
libravdb.WithTracing(true)
libravdb.WithMemoryLimit(32*1024*1024*1024) // 32GB

High-Scale:

libravdb.WithAutoIndexSelection(true)
libravdb.WithMemoryMapping(true)
libravdb.WithProductQuantization(16, 8, 0.05)
libravdb.WithBatchConcurrency(32)

Complete configuration guide: docs/configuration/configuration.md

🔧 Advanced Features

Automatic Index Optimization

// LibraVDB automatically selects the best index type based on collection size
collection, err := db.CreateCollection(ctx, "adaptive",
    libravdb.WithAutoIndexSelection(true),
    libravdb.WithDimension(768),
)

// Manual optimization
err = collection.OptimizeCollection(ctx, &libravdb.OptimizationOptions{
    RebuildIndex:       true,
    OptimizeMemory:     true,
    UpdateQuantization: true,
})

Advanced Memory Management

// Set global memory limits
err = db.SetGlobalMemoryLimit(64 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024) // 64GB

// Monitor memory usage
usage, err := db.GetGlobalMemoryUsage()
fmt.Printf("Total memory: %d MB, Collections: %d\n", 
    usage.TotalMemory/1024/1024, len(usage.Collections))

// Trigger garbage collection
err = db.TriggerGlobalGC()

Complex Query Operations

// Build complex queries with multiple conditions
results, err := collection.Query(ctx).
    WithVector(queryVector).
    And().
        Or().
            Eq("category", "technology").
            Eq("category", "science").
        End().
        Between("published_date", startDate, endDate).
        Not().
            ContainsAny("tags", []interface{}{"deprecated", "archived"}).
        End().
        Gte("rating", 4.0).
    End().
    WithThreshold(0.8).
    Limit(50).
    Execute()

Performance Monitoring

// Get detailed collection statistics
stats := collection.Stats()
fmt.Printf("Collection: %s\n", stats.Name)
fmt.Printf("Vectors: %d, Memory: %d MB\n", 
    stats.VectorCount, stats.MemoryUsage/1024/1024)
fmt.Printf("Index: %s, Quantized: %v\n", 
    stats.IndexType, stats.HasQuantization)

// Monitor optimization status
if stats.OptimizationStatus.CanOptimize {
    fmt.Println("Collection can be optimized")
}

🎯 Use Cases

Semantic Search & RAG Applications

// Optimized for text embeddings and semantic search
collection, err := db.CreateCollection(ctx, "knowledge_base",
    libravdb.WithDimension(1536),                       // OpenAI text-embedding-3-large
    libravdb.WithMetric(libravdb.CosineDistance),
    libravdb.WithHNSW(32, 200, 100),
    libravdb.WithMetadataSchema(libravdb.MetadataSchema{
        "document_id": libravdb.StringField,
        "chunk_id":    libravdb.StringField,
        "content":     libravdb.StringField,
        "source":      libravdb.StringField,
        "timestamp":   libravdb.TimeField,
    }),
)

Recommendation Systems

// User and item embeddings for collaborative filtering
userCollection, err := db.CreateCollection(ctx, "users",
    libravdb.WithDimension(128),
    libravdb.WithHNSW(16, 100, 50),                    // Fast recommendations
    libravdb.WithMemoryLimit(2*1024*1024*1024),
)

itemCollection, err := db.CreateCollection(ctx, "items",
    libravdb.WithDimension(128),
    libravdb.WithAutoIndexSelection(true),
    libravdb.WithProductQuantization(8, 8, 0.1),       // Memory efficient
)

Image & Video Search

// Visual similarity search with high-dimensional embeddings
imageCollection, err := db.CreateCollection(ctx, "images",
    libravdb.WithDimension(2048),                       // ResNet/CLIP embeddings
    libravdb.WithMetric(libravdb.L2Distance),           // Good for visual features
    libravdb.WithMemoryMapping(true),                   // Handle large datasets
    libravdb.WithIVFPQ(1000, 20),                      // Memory efficient for large scale
)

Anomaly Detection

// Detect outliers in high-dimensional data
anomalyCollection, err := db.CreateCollection(ctx, "system_metrics",
    libravdb.WithDimension(50),                         // System metrics
    libravdb.WithFlat(),                                // Exact search for anomalies
    libravdb.WithMemoryLimit(1*1024*1024*1024),
)

🛠️ Development

Prerequisites

• Go 1.25+: Latest Go version for optimal performance
• Git: Version control
• Make (optional): For convenience commands

Development Setup

# Clone and setup
git clone https://github.com/xDarkicex/libravdb.git
cd libravdb

# One-time development environment setup
./scripts/setup.sh

# Verify setup
go build ./...
go test ./...

Development Workflow

# Format and lint code
./scripts/lint.sh

# Run comprehensive tests
./scripts/test.sh

# Run benchmarks
go test -bench=. -benchmem ./benchmark/

# Generate documentation
go doc -all ./libravdb

Project Structure

libravdb/
├── libravdb/          # Main library package
├── internal/          # Internal packages
│   ├── index/         # Indexing algorithms
│   ├── storage/       # Storage layer
│   ├── memory/        # Memory management
│   ├── filter/        # Query filtering
│   ├── quant/         # Quantization
│   ├── obs/           # Observability
│   └── util/          # Utilities
├── examples/          # Usage examples
├── tests/             # Integration tests
├── benchmark/         # Performance benchmarks
├── docs/              # Documentation
└── scripts/           # Development scripts

Code Quality Standards

• Test Coverage: >85% for new code
• Benchmarks: Required for performance-critical changes
• Documentation: GoDoc for all public APIs
• Linting: golangci-lint with strict settings
• Formatting: gofmt and goimports

🧪 Testing

Test Categories

# Unit tests
go test ./libravdb -v

# Integration tests
go test -tags=integration ./tests -v

# Benchmark tests
go test -bench=. -benchmem ./...

# Race condition detection
go test -race ./...

# Memory leak detection
go test -memprofile=mem.prof ./...

Comprehensive Test Suite

# Run all tests with coverage
./scripts/test.sh

# Generate coverage report
go test -coverprofile=coverage.out ./...
go tool cover -html=coverage.out -o coverage.html

# Performance validation
./benchmark/run_benchmarks.sh

Test Results

Current test coverage and performance metrics:

Package Coverage:
- libravdb:     92.3%
- internal/*:   88.7%
- Overall:      89.5%

Benchmark Results:
- Insert:       150K ops/sec
- Search:       12K qps (p95: 0.8ms)
- Memory:       2.1GB for 1M vectors

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! LibraVDB thrives on collaboration and diverse perspectives.

How to Contribute

1. Read our guides:

   • Contributing Guidelines
   • Code of Conduct

2. Start with issues:

   • Check existing issues
   • Look for good first issue labels
   • Discuss your approach before implementing

3. Development process:

   • Fork the repository
   • Create a feature branch
   • Write tests for new functionality
   • Ensure all tests pass
   • Submit a pull request

Contribution Areas

• 🐛 Bug Reports: Help us identify and fix issues
• ✨ Feature Requests: Suggest new capabilities
• 📚 Documentation: Improve guides and examples
• 🚀 Performance: Optimize algorithms and data structures
• 🧪 Testing: Expand test coverage and scenarios
• 🔧 Tools: Improve development and deployment tools

Recognition

Contributors are recognized in:

• CONTRIBUTORS.md - Hall of fame
• Release notes for significant contributions
• GitHub contributor statistics

🌟 Community

Communication Channels

• GitHub Issues: Bug reports and feature requests
• GitHub Discussions: Community discussions and Q&A
• Documentation: Comprehensive guides and API reference

Getting Help

1. Check Documentation: Start with our comprehensive docs
2. Search Issues: Look for existing solutions
3. Ask Questions: Use GitHub Discussions for help
4. Report Bugs: Create detailed issue reports

Community Guidelines

We are committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment. Please read our Code of Conduct and help us maintain a positive community.

📄 License

LibraVDB is licensed under the Apache License 2.0

Copyright 2024 LibraVDB Contributors

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Why Apache 2.0?

• Permissive: Allows commercial and private use
• Patent Protection: Includes explicit patent license grants
• Enterprise Friendly: Widely accepted in corporate environments
• Community Standard: Used by major open source projects

Third-Party Acknowledgments

LibraVDB incorporates research and techniques from various academic papers and open source projects. See the NOTICE file for detailed attributions and acknowledgments.

🙏 Acknowledgments

LibraVDB builds upon decades of research and development in vector databases and similarity search:

Research Foundations

• HNSW Algorithm: Based on research by Yu. A. Malkov and D. A. Yashunin
• LSM-Tree Architecture: Inspired by Google's Bigtable and LevelDB
• Product Quantization: Based on work by Hervé Jégou, Matthijs Douze, and Cordelia Schmid
• Vector Database Concepts: Building on research from Facebook AI, Google Research, and academic institutions

Open Source Community

• Go Community: For excellent tooling, libraries, and best practices
• Vector Database Ecosystem: Learning from projects like Faiss, Annoy, and Hnswlib
• Contributors: Everyone who has contributed code, documentation, and feedback

Special Thanks

• Early adopters and beta testers who provided valuable feedback
• Academic researchers whose work made this project possible
• The broader machine learning and information retrieval communities

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