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Balancing the Blend: An Experimental Analysis of Trade-offs in Hybrid Search

Summary: First systematic evaluation of hybrid retrieval across four paradigms and 11 datasets. Reveals weakest-link degradation, data/resource-dependent fusion trade-offs, and tensor-based reranking as a cost-efficient alternative. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
14500
Venue
VLDB
Year
2026
Pagerank
5.093636e-05
Overall Rank
10,563 | 27.53%
DOI
10.14778/3811243.3811246

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@article{wang_vldb26,
        title = {{Balancing the Blend: An Experimental Analysis of Trade-offs in Hybrid Search}},
        author = {Wang, Mengzhao and Tan, Boyu and Gao, Yunjun and Jin, Hai and Zhang, Yingfeng and Ke, Xiangyu and Xu, Xiaoliang and Zhu, Yifan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {8},
        pages = {1715--1730},
        doi = {10.14778/3811243.3811246},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3811243.3811246},
        year = {2026}
}

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21 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00056760516
93 Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph 2019 VLDB 0.00034701237
286 Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System 2021 SIGMOD 0.00022357911
332 Query-Aware Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2016 VLDB 0.00020920444
398 A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Comparison of Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2021 VLDB 0.00019194947
805 Cache locality is not enough: High-Performance Nearest Neighbor Search with Product Quantization Fast Scan 2016 VLDB 0.00013891999
926 Improving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search through Learned Adaptive Early Termination 2020 SIGMOD 0.00013181732
990 SK-LSH: An Efficient Index Structure for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2014 VLDB 0.00012796562
1,065 PASE: PostgreSQL Ultra-High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Extension 2020 SIGMOD 0.00012335063
1,244 Efficient Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in Multi-dimensional Databases 2023 SIGMOD 0.00011508159
1,357 RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 0.00011043994
1,735 High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: with Reliable and Efficient Distance Comparison Operations 2023 SIGMOD 9.9004924e-05
1,760 Starling: An I/O-Efficient Disk-Resident Graph Index Framework for High-Dimensional Vector Similarity Search on Data Segment 2024 SIGMOD 9.8157819e-05
1,802 HVS: Hierarchical Graph Structure Based on Voronoi Diagrams for Solving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2022 VLDB 9.7284341e-05
2,224 An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression 2017 SIGMOD 8.9183396e-05
2,303 SeRF: Segment Graph for Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 8.7783079e-05
2,519 Similarity search in the blink of an eye with compressed indices 2023 VLDB 8.4741476e-05
2,673 DSH: Data Sensitive Hashing for High-Dimensional k-NN Search 2014 SIGMOD 8.2730112e-05
2,920 SingleStore-V: An Integrated Vector Database System in SingleStore 2024 VLDB 7.9628307e-05
3,240 Graph-Based Vector Search: An Experimental Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art 2025 SIGMOD 7.6071649e-05
3,335 Navigating Labels and Vectors: A Unified Approach to Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 7.5098031e-05
4,359 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 6.7451753e-05
4,886 Chat2Data: An Interactive Data Analysis System with RAG, Vector Databases and LLMs 2024 VLDB 6.4614955e-05
5,856 Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 6.0644656e-05
6,167 Sparkly: A Simple yet Surprisingly Strong TF/IDF Blocker for Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 5.9524736e-05
6,765 AquaPipe: A Quality-Aware Pipeline for Knowledge Retrieval and Large Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 5.7808599e-05
6,791 MILC: Inverted List Compression in Memory 2017 VLDB 5.7723936e-05
6,995 Chameleon: a Heterogeneous and Disaggregated Accelerator System for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 VLDB 5.7301567e-05
7,254 LIDER: An Efficient High-dimensional Learned Index for Large-scale Dense Passage Retrieval 2023 VLDB 5.6625991e-05
7,492 Scalable Distributed Inverted List Indexes in Disaggregated Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.6047664e-05
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8,343 An Interactive Multi-modal Query Answering System with Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models 2024 VLDB 5.448279e-05
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