--- title: The 150x pgvector speedup: a year-in-review | daily.dev description: The post discusses the performance improvements achieved by pgvector over the past year, including a 150x speedup in index build time and enhancements in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-150x-pgvector-speedup-a-year-in-review-xisy2dugk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The 150x pgvector speedup: a year-in-review | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses the performance improvements achieved by pgvector over the past year, including a 150x speedup in index build time and enhancements in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-150x-pgvector-speedup-a-year-in-review-xisy2dugk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XISy2dUgk.png og:image:alt: The 150x pgvector speedup: a year-in-review og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The 150x pgvector speedup: a year-in-review **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 18 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post discusses the performance improvements achieved by pgvector over the past year, including a 150x speedup in index build time and enhancements in recall, latency, throughput, and index size. It also highlights the areas where pgvector can continue to improve and mentions upcoming goals for better supporting vector workloads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#pgvector](https://daily.dev/tags/pgvector), [#vector-search](https://daily.dev/tags/vector-search) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-150x-pgvector-speedup-a-year-in-review-xisy2dugk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The 150x pgvector speedup: a year-in-review","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-150x-pgvector-speedup-a-year-in-review-xisy2dugk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-150x-pgvector-speedup-a-year-in-review-xisy2dugk"},"datePublished":"2024-05-01T08:24:13.908Z","dateModified":"2024-05-24T02:14:33.227Z","description":"The post discusses the performance improvements achieved by pgvector over the past year, including a 150x speedup in index build time and enhancements in...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a7d3e3dd34d1aae234270465d73c616a?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a7d3e3dd34d1aae234270465d73c616a?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-150x-pgvector-speedup-a-year-in-review-xisy2dugk","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"performance,pgvector,vector-search","timeRequired":"PT18M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The 150x pgvector speedup: a year-in-review"}]} ```