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Intro to Vector Databases

HNSW

HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) is a graph-based vector indexing method for efficient approximate nearest neighbor searches. It organizes data in a multi-layer structure, enabling fast and accurate queries by navigating through layers from coarse to fine granularity.