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Starling: An I/O-Efficient Disk-Resident Graph Index Framework for High-Dimensional Vector Similarity Search on Data Segment

Summary: Starling: a disk-resident, I/O-efficient HVSS framework for segment-wide vector search. Hybrid layout (in-memory navigation graph + reordered disk graph) and a block I/O strategy reduce disk traffic, enabling 33M 128-D vectors with >0.9 AP and ~1 ms latency, ~44x throughput vs prior methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
6885
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2024
Pagerank
9.8157819e-05
Overall Rank
1,760 | 87.93%
DOI
10.1145/3639269

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{wang_sigmod24,
        title = {{Starling: An I/O-Efficient Disk-Resident Graph Index Framework for High-Dimensional Vector Similarity Search on Data Segment}},
        author = {Wang, Mengzhao and Xu, Weizhi and Yi, Xiaomeng and Wu, Songlin and Peng, Zhangyang and Ke, Xiangyu and Gao, Yunjun and Xu, Xiaoliang and Guo, Rentong and Xie, Charles},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3639269},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3639269},
        year = {2024}
}

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10,179 Proximity Graphs for Similarity Search: Fast Construction, Lower Bounds, and Euclidean Separation 2026 PODS 5.093636e-05
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10,330 SWIFT: Enabling Large-Scale Temporal Graph Learning on a Single Machine 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,336 Accelerating High-Dimensional ANN Search via Skipping Redundant Distance Computations 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,359 DiskJoin: Large-scale Vector Similarity Join with SSD 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,362 Dynamically Detect and Fix Hardness for Efficient Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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10,454 Fast-Convergent Proximity Graphs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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3 Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing 2010 SIGMOD 0.0012250108
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
406 AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data 2020 VLDB 0.00019054532
805 Cache locality is not enough: High-Performance Nearest Neighbor Search with Product Quantization Fast Scan 2016 VLDB 0.00013891999
1,065 PASE: PostgreSQL Ultra-High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Extension 2020 SIGMOD 0.00012335063
1,430 VHP: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Virtual Hypersphere Partitioning 2020 VLDB 0.0001080902
1,511 Speedup Graph Processing by Graph Ordering 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010538011
1,589 Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System 2022 VLDB 0.00010264469
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2,010 iDEC: Indexable Distance Estimating Codes for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2020 VLDB 9.3085202e-05
2,221 Streaming Graph Partitioning: An Experimental Study 2018 VLDB 8.9260308e-05
3,362 Experimental Analysis of Streaming Algorithms for Graph Partitioning 2019 SIGMOD 7.4833791e-05
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