Vector databases are often over-optimized for getting results into papers (where the be-all-end-all measure is recall@latency benchmarking). Indexed search is very rigid - filtered search is a pain, and you're stuck with the metric you used for indexing.
At smaller data scales, you get a lot more flexibility, and shoving things into a indexed search mindlessly will lead to a lot of pain. Providing optimized flexible search at smaller scales is quite valuable, imo.
A small note: since the project seems to include @maratyszcza's fp16 library (MIT), it might be nice to add a line of attribution: https://github.com/maratyszcza/fp16
And if you ever feel like broadening the benchmarks, it could be interesting to compare with USearch. It has had an SQLite connector for a while and covers a wide set of hardware backends and similarity metrics, though it's not yet as straightforward to use on some OSes: https://unum-cloud.github.io/usearch/sqlite
It's geared towards bioacoustics in particular. It's pretty easy to provide a wrapper for any given model though. Feel free to send a ping if you try it out for speech; will be happy to hear how it goes.