Related Projects

This page lists upstream and downstream projects related to or integrating with VSAG, making it easier to assemble complete stacks.

Projects Using VSAG

• OceanBase — Ant Group’s open-source distributed relational database; its vector search is powered by VSAG.
• Other vector databases / integrations — if you maintain an integration, feel free to open a PR to list it here.

Dependencies and Inspirations

• hnswlib — the canonical HNSW implementation; VSAG’s HNSW interface and algorithms were influenced by it.
• DiskANN — Microsoft Research’s large-scale on-disk vector search work; VSAG’s diskann index is based on this approach.
• Faiss — Meta’s vector search library; VSAG borrows ideas in IVF and quantization.
• SPANN / SPTAG — Microsoft’s large-scale retrieval system; shaped our hybrid-index approach.

Ecosystem Tooling

• ann-benchmarks — the de-facto ANN benchmark harness; VSAG’s performance evaluation tool is compatible with its dataset format.
• pybind11 — powers the pyvsag Python binding.
• napi-rs — powers the Node.js binding under typescript/.

Bindings / Language Support

• C++ (native)
• Python — pyvsag, source under python_bindings/ and python/.
• Node.js / TypeScript — source under typescript/, npm package name vsag.

Pull requests to extend this list are welcome.