Roadmap

     

Overview

The following is an overview of features planned for Weaviate. By clicking the link, you can upvote the feature or engage in a discussion about it. You can also join our Slack channel to discuss the roadmap in more detail.

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Planned for version 1.18

• Add where filters to BM25(F) and Hybrid Search
• Scroll through every object in a class using an id cursor
• Native Roaring Bitmap support in LSM Store for faster large-scale filters
• Improve BM25 performance in large scale setups
• Replication: Tunable Write Consistency Level
• Replication: Read-Repairs
• Make CORS configurable: Allow arbitrary headers

Planned for version 1.19

• Reindex API (Inverted Index)
• Feature Request: Stemming on Inverted Index text props
• Dynamic Scaling: Move shards around nodes, drain node, etc.
• Replication: Async repairs
• Replication: Improve dynamic scaling of replication factor

Backlog

• [Feature Request]: adding the Class alias functionality
• FR: Support nested objects / embedding objects
• Feature request: Authentication scheme for systems long-term credentials
• Feature Request: Multi-DC (Active/Active) replication
• Support for batch patch (partial update)
• Add an In Filter Operator
• FR: Support arbitrary amount of vector indexes on object
• Support for batch import of cross referenced objects
• Support OIDC groups in AdminList
• [text2vec-openai] support arbitrary model names
• Return vectorized query with results
• (feature request) Multiple filters on cross references should match on a single object
• Proposal: Cross-Encoders as reranking
• Proposal: autoCut in Weaviate Vector Search
• Filtering returned cross references
• Add support for wildcards for include/exclude backups
• Reindex API (Vector Index)
• (feature request) Add support for PDFs and other file formats
• (feature request) Add multi2vec-huggingface module to support CLIP models with inference API
• Feature Request: BM25/Hybrid: Support ANDing query terms (currently always ORed).
• Ability to reindex a property (column) or class (table) with a simple command
• Improve Read-only message by adding reason
• Add integration tests for OpenAI
• Unexpected tokenisation for string datatype
• Replication and sharding configuration at system level
• QnA module: Provide vector to ask filter clause so QnA can be used without a vectorizer
• OpenAI add text-davinci-003 model
• FR: Have a graphql query that works the same way as the GET /v1/objects endpoint
• Feature Request: Partial Schema Config Update using PATCH

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