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I totally agree and hnswlib is actually much faster than FAISS on CPU.

I'm really happy to see `hnswlib` as a Python dependency since I'm the one who implemented PyPI support: https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib/pull/140

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Interesting - is there a good reference to back this claim? Curious to hear what overheads Faiss would have if it's configured with similar parameters to build the HNSW graphs. Is that what you A/B-tested in practice?

http://ann-benchmarks.com

hnswlib implementation of hnsw is faster than faiss's implementation. Faiss has other index methods that are faster in some cases, but more complex as well.

Thank you for this! This project is really hnswlib-sqlite just shortened into hns(w)qlite.

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