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Graph-Based Vector Search: An Experimental Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art

Summary: Large-scale survey and evaluation of in-memory graph-based vector search, comparing 12 methods on up to 1B vectors. Five paradigms—seed, incremental insertion, neighborhood propagation, diversification, divide-and-conquer—frame the space; incremental insertion and diversification perform best, base-graph choice hurts scalability, and data-adaptive seeding/diversification is a key future direction. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7039
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2025
Pagerank
5.966659e-05
Overall Rank
4,731 | 67.09%
DOI
10.1145/3709693

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10,154 Distribution-Aware Exploration for Adaptive HNSW Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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10,256 I/O Optimizations for Graph-Based Disk-Resident Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: A Design Space Exploration 2026 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,273 An Experimental Evaluation of Hybrid Querying on Vectors 2026 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.0032169493
6 The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles 1990 SIGMOD 0.0016162015
34 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00076637636
212 Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph 2019 VLDB 0.00033913475
243 Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases 2001 SIGMOD 0.00031074984
562 Query-Aware Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2016 VLDB 0.00020091752
754 Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution 2018 VLDB 0.00017117211
770 A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Comparison of Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2021 VLDB 0.00016917602
867 SRS: Solving c-Approximate Nearest Neighbor Queries in High Dimensional Euclidean Space with a Tiny Index 2015 VLDB 0.00015792021
1,010 HD-Index: Pushing the Scalability-Accuracy Boundary for Approximate kNN Search in High-Dimensional Spaces 2018 VLDB 0.00014652858
2,644 Series2Graph: Graph-based Subsequence Anomaly Detection for Time Series 2020 VLDB 8.3832357e-05
2,725 HVS: Hierarchical Graph Structure Based on Voronoi Diagrams for Solving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2022 VLDB 8.2294908e-05
3,183 Return of the Lernaean Hydra: Experimental Evaluation of Data Series Approximate Similarity Search 2020 VLDB 7.4228241e-05
3,400 ELPIS: Graph-Based Similarity Search for Scalable Data Science 2023 VLDB 7.1405533e-05
3,540 Scalable, Variable-Length Similarity Search in Data Series: The ULISSE Approach 2018 VLDB 6.9943185e-05
3,629 The Lernaean Hydra of Data Series Similarity Search: An Experimental Evaluation of the State of the Art 2019 VLDB 6.902069e-05
4,536 Data Series Progressive Similarity Search with Probabilistic Quality Guarantees 2020 SIGMOD 6.104642e-05
5,158 Coconut: A Scalable Bottom-Up Approach for Building Data Series Indexes 2018 VLDB 5.6588553e-05
5,352 Permutation Search Methods are Efficient, Yet Faster Search is Possible 2015 VLDB 5.5529869e-05
6,360 High-Dimensional Vector Similarity Search: From Time Series to Deep Network Embeddings 2020 SIGMOD 5.0961051e-05
9,206 Odyssey: A Journey in the Land of Distributed Data Series Similarity Search 2023 VLDB 4.373492e-05
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