3 papers
cs.DB2026
ByteX: A Unified AI Search Engine at ByteDance
Yao Tian, Yuncheng Lu, Liyao Xiong +9
Since 2016, ByteX has been the foundation of ByteDance's search infrastructure, scaling to more than 7,000 clusters and 300 PB of indexed data. Driven by the demands of AI workload…
cs.DB2026
Optimizing SSD-Resident Graph Indexing for High-Throughput Vector Search
Weichen Zhao, Yuncheng Lu, Yao Tian +5
Graph-based approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) methods (e.g., HNSW) have become the de facto state of the art for their high precision and low latency. To scale beyond main…
cs.DB2025
Cortex AISQL: A Production SQL Engine for Unstructured Data
Paweł Liskowski, Benjamin Han, Paritosh Aggarwal +11
Snowflake's Cortex AISQL is a production SQL engine that integrates native semantic operations directly into SQL. This integration allows users to write declarative queries that co…