Weaviate Vector Search up to +40% with Intel Emerald Rapids

AI Impact Summary

Weaviate’s vector search performance has been significantly accelerated by leveraging Intel’s Emerald Rapids Xeon CPUs, achieving a 40% QPS speedup. This improvement stems from optimized implementations utilizing SIMD-AVX512 instructions, loop unrolling, and compiler optimizations, specifically targeting the core vector distance calculation operation. This represents a substantial performance gain, particularly for high-dimensional vectors, and highlights the importance of hardware-accelerated algorithms in vector database workloads.