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Vald
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Spec sheet
- Product
- Vald is a highly scalable distributed approximate nearest neighbor engine for dense vector search.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- Deployment
- The maker documents deployment on Kubernetes with Helm or its Helm operator, and also provides a tutorial for running a Vald agent on Docker.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- Support
- The project recommends its community Slack for questions and also accepts email at [email protected].Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- Backup
- Index backup can use Persistent Volumes, S3-compatible object storage, or both, and saved indexes can be restored when an agent pod starts.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- Filtering
- Ingress filters can vectorize or preprocess data, while egress filters can post-process search results; filter components must implement Vald’s gRPC interface.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- Indexing
- Vald supports asynchronous automatic indexing while continuing to serve search requests during indexing.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- Requirements
- The getting-started guide requires a Kubernetes cluster, Helm v3 or later, and Go v1.15 or later.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- Resilience
- Vald supports index replication and automatically rebalances replicas when an agent goes down.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- Scaling
- Vald is Kubernetes and cloud-native based, with horizontal scaling for memory and CPU.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- SDKs and APIs
- Official client libraries are available for Go, Java, Python, and Node.js, and Vald publishes gRPC protobufs for other languages.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- Search algorithm
- Vald uses the NGT approximate nearest neighbor algorithm by default and says users can switch to another vector search engine.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
- Security configuration
- Vald clusters can enable Kubernetes network policies to control ingress and egress traffic, subject to cluster prerequisites.Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
Plans and prices
Vald Free Open-source project · Self-deployed software Read 10 Oct 2026 · vald.vdaas.org
Where Specifiction places it
- Ai Databases#30 of 407.3
- Vector Databases#21 of 277.4
- Search Databases#28 of 307.2
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