Fast Vector Search in PostgreSQL: A Decoupled Approach

Summary: PostgreSQL-V decouples vector indexes from PostgreSQL's page-oriented core to directly leverage native high-performance vector index libraries, avoiding legacy overhead of prior integrated designs. Employs a lightweight consistency mechanism and matches specialized DB speed, up to 8.9x vs pgvector. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 579
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 5.374155e-05
Overall Rank: 8,781 | 39.76%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Jiayi Liu (Purdue University)
2. Yunan Zhang (Purdue University)
3. Chenzhe Jin (Purdue University)
4. Aditya Gupta (Purdue University)
5. Shige Liu (Purdue University)
6. Jianguo Wang (Purdue University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liu_cidr26,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '26},
        title = {{Fast Vector Search in PostgreSQL: A Decoupled Approach}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Liu, Jiayi and Zhang, Yunan and Jin, Chenzhe and Gupta, Aditya and Liu, Shige and Wang, Jianguo},
        year = {2026}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,193	An In-Depth Study of Filter-Agnostic Vector Search on a PostgreSQL Database System: [Experiments & Analysis]	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,304	VecBench: A Controllable Benchmark for Filtered Vector Search: [Experiments & Analysis]	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,449	Efficient Vector Index Merging in Vector Databases	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,491	Reducing Tail Latency in Storage-Disaggregated Database Systems	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
73	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00037333356
286	Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System	2021	SIGMOD	0.00022357911
406	AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data	2020	VLDB	0.00019054532
604	Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud	2019	SIGMOD	0.0001584774
1,065	PASE: PostgreSQL Ultra-High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Extension	2020	SIGMOD	0.00012335063
2,920	SingleStore-V: An Integrated Vector Database System in SingleStore	2024	VLDB	7.9628307e-05
7,341	Understanding the Performance Implications of the Design Principles in Storage-Disaggregated Databases	2024	SIGMOD	5.6390976e-05
7,693	CaaS-LSM: Compaction-as-a-Service for LSM-based Key-Value Stores in Storage Disaggregated Infrastructure	2024	SIGMOD	5.5663461e-05
13,374	Vector Databases: What’s Really New and What’s Next? (VLDB 2024 Panel)	2024	VLDB	-

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