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Faiss
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Faiss Pros review quotes
Vasu Bansal
Student at Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet
May 7, 2024
I used Faiss as a basic database.
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ALLAN-TAN
CEO & President at Ideyatech, Inc
Jan 5, 2024
The product has better performance and stability compared to one of its competitors.
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Faiss Cons review quotes
Kalindu Sekarage
Senior Software Engineer
Aug 17, 2025
One of the drawbacks of Faiss is that it works only in-memory. If it could provide separate persistent storage without relying on in-memory, it would reduce the overhead.
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Vasu Bansal
Student at Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet
May 7, 2024
It would be beneficial if I could set a parameter and see different query mechanisms being run.
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ALLAN-TAN
CEO & President at Ideyatech, Inc
Jan 5, 2024
It could be more accessible for handling larger data sets.
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