{"id":9578,"date":"2026-01-08T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/hnsw-at-scale-why-your-rag-system-gets-worse-as-the-vector-database-grows\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:02:23","slug":"hnsw-at-scale-why-your-rag-system-gets-worse-as-the-vector-database-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/hnsw-at-scale-why-your-rag-system-gets-worse-as-the-vector-database-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>How approximate vector search silently degrades Recall\u2014and what to do about It<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/hnsw-at-scale-why-your-rag-system-gets-worse-as-the-vector-database-grows\/\">HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/\">Towards Data Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Partha Sarkar<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/hnsw-at-scale-why-your-rag-system-gets-worse-as-the-vector-database-grows\/\">Go to original source<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows How approximate vector search silently degrades Recall\u2014and what to do about It The post HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows appeared first on Towards Data Science. Partha Sarkar Go to original source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2804,62,67,71,1930,2417,4443],"tags":[4569,2085,437],"class_list":["post-9578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-engineering","category-aimldsaimlds","category-deep-dives","category-large-language-models","category-llm-applications","category-rag-architecture","category-vector-database","tag-hnsw","tag-scale","tag-vector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}