We recognize that Milvus is a strong competitor and we think Milvus is a great platform.
Like Milvus, Vald will soon be sending pull requests to ann-benchmarks to show that it is one of the fastest ANN engines available over the network.
Since Vald is a pure ANN search engine, it does not support graph search of boolean filtering results.
However, it does have post-filtering capabilities.
The same use case can be achieved by using the post-filter.
It is possible to implement functions such as retrieving more TopKs than the expected value of N, and then filtering the results to get N in the end.
The documentation for Vald's Filter feature is in preparation, but should be available soon.
There are also functions that work seamlessly with Tensorflow and ONNX, so it is possible to embed text data in vector space without Boolean filtering, and perform similar searches using only ANNs by weighting vector queries.
Our ideal world would be one in which everything becomes a vector, and we could perform a variety of searches using vectors.
Hi, I'm kpango, the developer of Vald.
I'm glad to see that many people are interested in Vald, and I'd be happy to receive feedback on any inconveniences via github Issue or PR.