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A search-and-inference database from scratch in pure Zig

66 points · 19 comments · kingcauchy

kingcauchy · 1789486889 · focus · HN ↗
We rewrote Antfly, which I introduced to the world a little bit back <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414291">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414291, from Go to Zig.
Thought it is interesting to juxtapose to the Bun rewrite from Anthropic and wanted to talk about why we went the other way! Would love to talk about our process or the technology!
Benchmarks against are linked in the article but here they are again for posterity <a href="https://antfly.io/releases/v0.2" rel="nofollow">https://antfly.io/releases/v0.2
1. esafak · 1789762843 · focus · HN ↗
  Could you add qdrant and duckdb to the benchmarks?
  1. kingcauchy · 1789765555 · focus · HN ↗
    DuckDB is a good one, we're working on that especially for the serverless/lakehouse stuff we've got planned for the next release! I believe we originally had qdrant in our benchmarks but ran into an explosion of testing requirements for each provider and different licensing checks for each but I can drum up those numbers!

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