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681 views|639 comparisons
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We performed a comparison between Faiss and Percona Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The product has better performance and stability compared to one of its competitors.""I used Faiss as a basic database."

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"We find the product mostly stable."

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Cons
"It could be more accessible for handling larger data sets.""It would be beneficial if I could set a parameter and see different query mechanisms being run."

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"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."

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  • "It is an open-source tool."
  • "Faiss is an open-source solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product has better performance and stability compared to one of its competitors.
    Top Answer:We need to build many tools to streamline its integration into production environments. All the embeddings are saved in a particular location. We have to load them and start with the search in case of… more »
    Top Answer:We find the product mostly stable.
    Top Answer:This is an open-source product and is free to use.
    Top Answer:I would love to see the flashback in Percona MySQL or even in Percona PostgreSQL. It's available in Oracle, the flashback. In Oracle, there's the utility of a flashback. It stores all the information… more »
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    7.0
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    8.0
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    Overview

    Faiss is a powerful library for efficient similarity search and nearest neighbor retrieval in large-scale datasets. It is widely used in image and text processing, recommendation systems, and natural language processing. 

    Users appreciate its speed, scalability, and ability to handle high-dimensional data effectively. Faiss also offers easy integration and extensive support for different programming languages. 

    Its valuable features include efficient search capabilities, support for large-scale datasets, various similarity measures, easy integration, and comprehensive documentation and community support.

    Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides good performance, scalability and instrumentation. With over 3,000,000 downloads, Percona Server for MySQL's self-tuning algorithms and support for extremely high-performance hardware delivers excellent performance and reliability.
    Sample Customers
    1. Facebook 2. Airbnb 3. Pinterest 4. Twitter 5. Microsoft 6. Uber 7. LinkedIn 8. Netflix 9. Spotify 10. Adobe 11. eBay 12. Dropbox 13. Yelp 14. Salesforce 15. IBM 16. Intel 17. Nvidia 18. Qualcomm 19. Samsung 20. Sony 21. Tencent 22. Alibaba 23. Baidu 24. JD.com 25. Rakuten 26. Zillow 27. Booking.com 28. Expedia 29. TripAdvisor 30. Rakuten 31. Rakuten Viber 32. Rakuten Ichiba
    Pricefalls Marketplace, Micpoint, Rent the Runway, Transmart, Wattpad, Singular Group, Invoca, 3E
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    University8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company28%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Government7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Faiss is ranked 12th in Open Source Databases with 2 reviews while Percona Server is ranked 8th in Open Source Databases with 2 reviews. Faiss is rated 8.0, while Percona Server is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Faiss writes "Provides quick query search and has a big database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Percona Server writes "Open-source and free to use with a good community". Faiss is most compared with Chroma, Elastic Search, Qdrant, Pinecone and Milvus, whereas Percona Server is most compared with MariaDB, MySQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service.

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