Vald

Kubernetes-native distributed ANN engine on the NGT algorithm with replicated indexes across agents.

Provider
default
Category
Data
Properties · 4 set by this component
propertytypevaluesrequiredkind defaultthis component
algorithm · component propertyenumngt | faissnongtinherited
autoIndexing · component propertyboolean—notrueinherited
dimensionsinteger—no—inherited
distanceMetricenumcosine | euclidean | dot-productno—inherited
hybridSearchboolean—nofalse▸ false
indexTypeenumflat | hnsw | ivf | disk-ann | lshno—inherited
managedboolean—nofalse▸ false
metadataFilteringboolean—nofalse▸ false
namespacesboolean—nofalseinherited
objectType · component propertyenumfloat | float16 | uint8nofloatinherited
quantizationenumnone | scalar | product | binarynononeinherited
replicasinteger—no—▸ 3
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# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
# Vald: Kubernetes-native distributed ANN engine built on the NGT graph-and-tree algorithm.
# "About Vald": indexes are stored on several agents so index replicas exist and rebalance when an
# agent is lost. Helm chart values: the load-balancing gateway writes 3 index replicas by default.
schemaVersion: "1"
type: "component"
id: "vald"
kind: "vector-database"
provider: "default"
docs: "https://vald.vdaas.org/docs/overview/about-vald/"
defaults:
  metadataFiltering: false
  hybridSearch: false
  replicas: 3
  managed: false
properties:
  algorithm:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["ngt", "faiss"]
    default: "ngt"
  objectType:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["float", "float16", "uint8"]
    default: "float"
  autoIndexing:
    type: "boolean"
    default: true

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/vald.md