RIP, vector database
September 30, 2026•Dan Harrison (Engineer)We are changing turbopuffer's storage architecture. The new engine, informally
called "turbopuffer v3", changes how documents and indexes are laid out,
written, compacted, and queried in turbopuffer. It will allow us to serve many
more query plans, at much greater scale.
turbopuffer launched as a
serverless vector database,
highly specialized to the task of serving extremely cheap and reasonably fast
vector searches. Object storage as the source of truth...
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