Add support for Scalar Quantization in HNSW.#673
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Summary
This PR adds scalar quantization support for HNSW indexes and improves the
cache_embeddings = truequery path so quantized embeddings use a dense in-memory cache with transaction-aware invalidation.The main behavioral goal is to keep quantized search on the fast cached path while preserving correctness around inserts, rollback, commit, and MVCC visibility.
Benchmark
Ran it on OpenAI 50k small
Results:
Speedup vs baseline:
Storage overhead vs baseline:
Notes
sq8gives the largest build-time win and the lowest query RSS, with lower recall due to 8-bit quantization.sq16keeps recall close to baseline while still improving index build, ingest, query latency, and query RSS.cache_embeddings = true, which is the intended optimized path for quantized HNSW search in this PR.