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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
hed0af06d314156ab
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2024
Pagerank
0.00010072237
Overall Rank
1,613 | 89.16%
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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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

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3 Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing 2010 SIGMOD 0.0012092602
74 Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph 2019 VLDB 0.00037091678
194 Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System 2021 SIGMOD 0.00025636725
298 Query-Aware Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2016 VLDB 0.00021833987
341 AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data 2020 VLDB 0.00020539791
345 A Comprehensive Survey and Experimental Comparison of Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2021 VLDB 0.00020445545
713 Cache locality is not enough: High-Performance Nearest Neighbor Search with Product Quantization Fast Scan 2016 VLDB 0.00014571977
916 PASE: PostgreSQL Ultra-High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Extension 2020 SIGMOD 0.00013094482
1,328 VHP: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Virtual Hypersphere Partitioning 2020 VLDB 0.00011003106
1,440 Speedup Graph Processing by Graph Ordering 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010641888
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1,897 iDEC: Indexable Distance Estimating Codes for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2020 VLDB 9.4092345e-05
2,248 Streaming Graph Partitioning: An Experimental Study 2018 VLDB 8.756531e-05
3,390 Experimental Analysis of Streaming Algorithms for Graph Partitioning 2019 SIGMOD 7.3509644e-05
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