Integrating Vector Databases across Embedding Models

Summary: Integrates vector DBs built with different embedding models without access to raw data or model internals, enabling cross‑database top‑k similarity search. Relies on an empirical "local isometry" hypothesis with theoretical quality bounds and achieves high top‑k recall across NV‑embed‑V2, OpenAI Ada, GloVe, Mistral, and FastText. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 11 2026)

Paper ID: 7589
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 10,381 | 28.78%
DOI: 10.1145/3769803

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Authors

1. Beining Yang (University of Edinburgh)
2. Yang Cao (University of Edinburgh)
3. Yang Ren (Huawei)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yang_sigmod26,
        title = {{Integrating Vector Databases across Embedding Models}},
        author = {Yang, Beining and Cao, Yang and Ren, Yang},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3769803},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3769803},
        year = {2026}
}

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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
427	Big Data Integration	2013	VLDB	0.00018661543
917	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013224381
1,589	Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System	2022	VLDB	0.00010264469
2,169	Data Integration: After the Teenage Years	2017	PODS	9.0436759e-05
2,216	Open Data Integration	2018	VLDB	8.9374127e-05
2,920	SingleStore-V: An Integrated Vector Database System in SingleStore	2024	VLDB	7.9628307e-05
2,938	FEXIPRO: Fast and Exact Inner Product Retrieval in Recommender Systems	2017	SIGMOD	7.942728e-05
3,240	Graph-Based Vector Search: An Experimental Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art	2025	SIGMOD	7.6071649e-05
3,676	LEMP: Fast Retrieval of Large Entries in a Matrix Product	2015	SIGMOD	7.2094091e-05
8,018	The Journey to A Knowledgeable Assistant with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)	2024	SIGMOD	5.5063811e-05
9,484	Context-sensitive Ranking for Document Retrieval	2011	SIGMOD	5.2634238e-05

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