Aerospike Vector Search 0.4.0 Release Notes

May 12, 2024

Note

AVS 0.4.0 is a Beta release.

New features

This release adds a delete operation to AVS. [VEC-16]

Improvements

• In the client API, removed some Aerospike-specific terms, added support for excluding fields in field projection, and added support for the boolean field type. [VEC-157]

• Improved cache entry layout to improve performance, compacted cache element storage to reduce the number of objects and GC load, and reduced memory consumed per cache entry. [VEC-156]

• Improved update functionality. [VEC-23]

Issues fixed

• Applied load balancing over query steering to prevent hot queries from overwhelming a single node and bringing down QPS, which could increase latency. [VEC-87]

• Reduced the gap in quality results when compared to FAISS HNSW. [VEC-35]

Supported Clients

This release supports the following AVS clients:

• Python 0.6.1

Known Issues

• Sending an insert to a record succeeds even if the record exists. An insert should succeed only if the record does not exist.