2025-11-11 10:45:42
Vector databases are one of the most popular and widely used systems in the tech industry. Their market was valued at ≈2.5 billion in 2024 and is projected to >3 billion in 2025. Over 70% of all organizations investing/implementing AI use vector databases for searching and embedding.
I have used vector databases in multiple use cases and projects. Be it RAG, searching and filtering documents or even feeding context to agents. After using multiple databases like FAISS, ChromaDB, Pinecone and pgvector, I was fascinated by vector databases and their internal workings.
Hence, I decided to implement one myself.
CapybaraDB, it is a lightweight vector database implementation, built from scratch in Python:
It can perform semantic search using sentence-transformers for embeddings.
It supports built-in token-based chunking.
CUDA acceleration.
Precision control (float32, float16, binary).
.npz file storage for persistance.
A vector database is a very special type of database which is very efficient in storing and searching dimensional vector embeddings. Embeddings are basically numerical representations of data like text, images, videos, audio, etc. In terms of structure, these embeddings are made up of array of floating point numbers representing the direction and magnitude of the generated vector.
A traditional database searches for exact match for the query entered, but vector databases find items by measuring the distance/difference between the query vector and embedded vectors inside the multidimensional space. Metrics like, euclidean distance or cosine similiarity can be used to measure distances between the vectors.
They're essential for modern AI applications including semantic search (finding meaning, not just keywords), recommendation systems, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) for chatbots, image similarity search, and anomaly detection.
Popular examples include Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant, and Chroma. They've become crucial infrastructure as AI applications need to search through millions of embeddings in milliseconds while maintaining accuracy.
* A "toy" vector db implementation, aiming for minimal complexity
* Straightforward APIs (`add_document`, `search`, `get_document`)
* Minimal config to get started
* Utility support for multiple file formats
* Configurable precision levels (float32, float16 and binary)
* Choice to keep in-memory store or on disk
* GPU support
* Core dependencies limited to essential libs
* Lightweight footprint for prototyping and learning
* Demonstrating fundamental vector database concepts
Data source: benchmark_results/indexing_performance.json
Document counts tested: 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000
Total times (s): 0.138, 1.015, 2.388, 23.126, 76.331
Average time per doc (s): 0.0138, 0.0203, 0.0239, 0.0463, 0.0763
Storage times remain small relative to embedding time even at 1k docs (≈0.122 s)
Index size (MB): 0.020, 0.089, 0.174, 0.859, 1.715
Peak memory (MB): ~2.2–65.4 across scales
Key takeaways:
Embedding dominates total indexing time. Storage overhead is negligible in comparison.
Linear growth with dataset size; average time per document rises as batches get larger and memory pressure appears.
Index size scales linearly and remains compact for thousands of chunks.
Refer to benchmark_results/indexing_performance.png for the trend lines and indexing_performance_breakdown.png for stacked time components.
Data source: benchmark_results/query_performance.json
Dataset sizes tested: 100, 500, 1000, 2500, 5000
Average query latency (ms): 7.79, 7.54, 9.10, 8.52, 8.45
Throughput (qps): 128.3, 132.6, 109.9, 117.4, 118.3
p50 latency (ms): 7.45–8.79
p95 latency (ms): 10.09–12.01
p99 latency (ms): 11.80–16.39
Breakdown (avg):
Observations:
Latency remains stable and low (≈7–9 ms on average) from 100 to 5000 vectors for top-k search, reflecting efficient vectorized exact search.
Throughput remains >100 qps at all tested sizes.
The split between query embedding and retrieval remains balanced; both contribute roughly half of total latency.
Note: one anomalous value appears in min_latency_ms at 500 (-524.27 ms). This is a measurement artifact and should be ignored; distributional statistics (p50/p95/p99) are consistent and reliable.
Charts: benchmark_results/query_performance.png and query_performance_breakdown.png visualize latency distributions and the embedding vs retrieval split.
Data source: benchmark_results/retrieval_quality_synthetic.json
Configuration:
Dataset: Synthetic
Chunk size: 512
Quality metrics:
Precision@k: P@1=1.00, P@3≈0.756, P@5≈0.480, P@10≈0.240
Recall@k: R@1≈0.433, R@3≈0.956, R@5=1.00, R@10=1.00
F1@k: F1@1=0.60, F1@3≈0.836, F1@5≈0.643, F1@10≈0.385
nDCG@k: nDCG@1=1.00, nDCG@3≈0.954, nDCG@5≈0.979, nDCG@10≈0.979
Interpretation:
Very strong early precision (P@1=1.0) and nDCG across cutoffs indicate effective ranking of the most relevant content.
Near-perfect recall by k=5 shows top-5 captures essentially all relevant items.
See benchmark_results/retrieval_quality_synthetic.png for the quality curves.
Disclaimer ⚠️: The documents in the dataset used here are relatively short (typically well under 512 tokens).
As a result, a chunk size of 512 effectively corresponds to document-level embeddings — each document was indexed as a single vector.
While this setup is sufficient for small-scale or toy benchmarks, it may not generalize to longer documents where sub-document (passage-level) chunking becomes necessary for finer-grained retrieval.
Future evaluations will include experiments with smaller chunk sizes (e.g., 128–256) and longer document corpora to assess chunk-level retrieval effects.
Small to medium collections (≤10k chunks): exact search is fast, simple, and accurate.
Low latency: median ≈7–9 ms per query with >100 qps throughput in benchmarks.
Strong quality: excellent early precision and recall on the synthetic task with coherent chunking.
Scales linearly: indexing and index size grow linearly; storage overhead is minimal compared to embedding time.
The main in-memory (temp) data store of CapybaraDB is the BaseIndex class, a data structure that holds:
class BaseIndex: documents: Dict[str, str] # doc_id -> full document text chunks: Dict[str, Dict[str, str]] # chunk_id -> {text, doc_id} vectors: Optional[torch.Tensor] # All chunk embeddings chunk_ids: List[str] # Order-preserving chunk IDs total_chunks: int total_documents: int embedding_dim: Optional[int]
This design keeps documents and their chunks separate while maintaining relationships through IDs. Why this separation? It allows us to:
Return full documents when retrieving search results
Track which chunk belongs to which document
Maintain metadata without duplicating data
The Index class extends BaseIndex with persistence:
class Index(BaseIndex): def __init__(self, storage_path: Optional[Path] = None): super().__init__() self.storage = Storage(storage_path)
This is where of auto-loading happens. When you create an Index, it checks if a persisted version exists and loads it automatically. This is of-course optional, if no path is provided, the db is kept in-memory.
The CapybaraDB class which exposes the API:
class CapybaraDB: def __init__( self, collection: Optional[str] = None, chunking: bool = False, chunk_size: int = 512, precision: Literal["binary", "float16", "float32"] = "float32", device: Literal["cpu", "cuda"] = "cpu", ):
You can create multiple collections, control chunking, adjust precision, and choose your compute device.
CapybaraDB uses sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2, a lightweight transformer model that converts text into 384-dimensional vectors.
class EmbeddingModel: def __init__( self, precision: Literal["binary", "float16", "float32"] = "float32", device: Literal["cpu", "cuda"] = "cpu", ): self.model_name = "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2" self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(self.model_name) self.model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(self.model_name).to(device)
The model is initialized once and reused for all embeddings, keeping operations fast and memory-efficient.
When you call embed() on a document, here's what happens:
def embed(self, documents: Union[str, List[str]]) -> torch.Tensor: encoded_documents = self.tokenizer( documents, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="pt" ) with torch.no_grad(): model_output = self.model(**encoded_documents) sentence_embeddings = self._mean_pooling( model_output, encoded_documents["attention_mask"] ) sentence_embeddings = F.normalize(sentence_embeddings, p=2, dim=1)
Tokenization: Using tiktoken package and cl100kbase token encoding the chunks are tokenized
Generation: Production of context-aware representations for each position
Normalization: L2 norm to convert all vectors to unit length for accurate retrieval
CapybaraDB supports three precision modes:
Float32 (default): Full precision, highest accuracy
Float16: Half precision, ~50% memory savings, minimal accuracy loss
Binary: Each dimension becomes 0 or 1, resulting in memory savings. The embedding process converts values > 0 to 1.0:
if self.precision == "binary": sentence_embeddings = (sentence_embeddings > 0).float()
Binary embeddings use a scaled dot product during search to compensate for information loss.
When you add a document, here's the full journey:
def add_document(self, text: str, doc_id: Optional[str] = None) -> str: if doc_id is None: doc_id = str(uuid.uuid4()) self.index.documents[doc_id] = text self.index.total_documents += 1
Step 1: ID Generation
If no ID is provided, we generate a UUID. This ensures every document is uniquely identifiable.
Step 2: Chunking (Optional)
If chunking is enabled, the document is split using token-based chunking:
if self.chunking: enc = tiktoken.get_encoding("cl100k_base") token_ids = enc.encode(text) chunks = [] for i in range(0, len(token_ids), self.chunk_size): tok_chunk = token_ids[i : i + self.chunk_size] chunk_text = enc.decode(tok_chunk) chunks.append(chunk_text)
Why token-based chunking instead of character-based?
Respects word boundaries
Considers tokenizer structure
Produces more semantically coherent chunks
Works better with the embedding model
Step 3: Create Chunks
Each chunk gets its own UUID and is stored with metadata:
for chunk in chunks: chunk_id = str(uuid.uuid4()) self.index.chunks[chunk_id] = {"text": chunk, "doc_id": doc_id} chunk_ids.append(chunk_id) self.index.total_chunks += 1
Step 4: Generate Embeddings
All chunks are embedded in one batch:
chunk_texts = [self.index.chunks[cid]["text"] for cid in chunk_ids]chunk_embeddings = self.model.embed(chunk_texts)
Batch processing is key to performance. Embedding 100 chunks together is much faster than 100 individual embeddings.
Step 5: Append to Vector Store
This is where the vectors are added to the index:
if self.index.vectors is None: self.index.vectors = chunk_embeddings self.index.chunk_ids = chunk_ids self.index.embedding_dim = chunk_embeddings.size(1)else: self.index.vectors = torch.cat( [self.index.vectors, chunk_embeddings], dim=0 ) self.index.chunk_ids.extend(chunk_ids)
The first document creates the tensor. Subsequent documents are concatenated along the batch dimension.
Step 6: Persistence
If not in-memory mode, the index is saved immediately:
if not self.index.storage.in_memory: self.index.save()
This means you can add documents and they're persisted incrementally—no manual save needed!
Here's how search works end-to-end:
def search(self, query: str, top_k: int = 5): if self.index.vectors is None: return [] self.index.ensure_vectors_on_device(target_device) indices, scores = self.model.search(query, self.index.vectors, top_k) results = [] for idx, score in zip(indices.tolist(), scores.tolist()): chunk_id = self.index.chunk_ids[idx] chunk_info = self.index.chunks[chunk_id] doc_id = chunk_info["doc_id"] results.append({ "doc_id": doc_id, "chunk_id": chunk_id, "text": chunk_info["text"], "score": score, "document": self.index.documents[doc_id], }) return results
Step 1: Query Embedding
The query text is embedded using the same model:
def search(self, query: str, embeddings: torch.Tensor, top_k: int): query_embedding = self.embed(query)
Step 2: Similarity Computation
The similarity between query and all stored vectors is computed:
if self.precision == "binary": similarities = torch.matmul( embeddings.float(), query_embedding.t().float() ) / query_embedding.size(1)else: similarities = torch.matmul(embeddings, query_embedding.t())
For each query, the system computes similarity with all stored vectors. In binary precision, it performs a dot product between 0/1 vectors, scaled by the embedding dimension—yielding the fraction of matching active bits. In float precision, normalized embeddings use standard cosine similarity via matrix multiplication with the query embedding.
Step 3: Top-K Selection
We use torch.topk to find the most similar vectors:
scores, indices = torch.topk( similarities.squeeze(), min(top_k, embeddings.size(0)))
Step 4: Result Assembly
For each result, we reconstruct the full context by:
Looking up the chunk text
Finding the parent document ID
Retrieving the full document
This gives you both the specific chunk that matched and the full document context.
The Storage class handles persistence with NumPy's compressed NPZ format:
def save(self, index) -> None: data = { "vectors": index.vectors.cpu().numpy(), "chunk_ids": np.array(index.chunk_ids), "chunk_texts": np.array([index.chunks[cid]["text"] for cid in index.chunk_ids]), "chunk_doc_ids": np.array([index.chunks[cid]["doc_id"] for cid in index.chunk_ids]), "doc_ids": np.array(list(index.documents.keys())), "doc_texts": np.array(list(index.documents.values())), "total_chunks": index.total_chunks, "total_documents": index.total_documents, "embedding_dim": index.embedding_dim or 0, } np.savez_compressed(self.file_path, **data)
Why NPZ?
Compressed by default (saves space)
Efficient binary format
Handles large arrays well
Cross-platform and language-agnostic
CapybaraDB supports two modes:
In-Memory: No file path specified. Data stays in RAM, lost on exit.
Persistent: File path specified. Data is saved to disk after each add_document() call.
This dual-mode design enables both temporary experiments (in-memory) and production use (persistent).
from capybaradb.main import CapybaraDB # Initializedb = CapybaraDB( collection="research_papers", chunking=True, chunk_size=512, device="cuda") # Add documentsdoc1_id = db.add_document("Machine learning is transforming NLP...")doc2_id = db.add_document("Deep neural networks excel at image recognition...") # Searchresults = db.search("artificial intelligence", top_k=2) # Use resultsfor result in results: print(f"Score: {result['score']:.4f}") print(f"Matched text: {result['text'][:100]}...") print(f"Full document: {result['document']}") print("---")
Implementation: GitHub
This implementation of CapybaraDB was purely for education purposes and my own learning. I had a great time figuring out the nitty-gritty details behind vector databases and will definitely take on more challenging implementations in the future.
2025-11-11 10:45:00
Imagine you're standing at the edge of a digital universe. You have a map in one hand (your front-end) and a toolbox in the other (your back-end). And now, you’ve just been handed 20 powerful tools that make building websites and apps feel like magic. Whether you're crafting the latest e-commerce platform or designing a sleek portfolio site, full-stack development combines the best of both worlds to help you create amazing things, anytime, anywhere.
In this guide, we’ll explore the 20 most essential tools every full-stack developer needs, with a particular focus on seamless integration and performance optimization. From Next.js to Firebase, we’ll dive into how these tools empower developers to build apps faster, smarter, and with more flexibility. Let’s get started!
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2025-11-11 10:33:12
🧭 Future AGI has built Agent Compass to Debug and Understand AI Agents (Finally)
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If you’ve ever worked with AI agents, you’ve probably faced this:
The agent works great one day, breaks the next… and you have no clue why.
Agent Compass is an open-source observability and evaluation toolkit that helps you trace, understand, and debug AI agents in production-like environments.
Here’s what it does:
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Root-cause insights: Identify where reasoning broke or hallucinations started.
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The goal is basically to stop guessing why an agent behaved a certain way and start understanding it.
If you’re running or scaling LLM-based agents, this will definitely make your life easier by aeons. You'll be left wondering how you ever managed without it in the first place (speaking from personal experience)
2025-11-11 10:30:00
Static web pages are functional, but adding motion can make an interface feel smoother, more engaging, and intuitive. With CSS transitions and animations, you can create hover effects, loading spinners, sliding menus, or even playful interactions—all without relying on JavaScript.
Let’s explore how transitions and animations work, their key differences, and some simple but effective examples.
A transition lets you smoothly change a CSS property’s value over time, usually triggered by user interaction (hover, focus, click, etc.).
css
.box {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: skyblue;
transition: all 0.5s ease;
}
.box:hover {
width: 150px;
background: coral;
}
transition: Defines what properties change and how.0.5s: Duration of the animation.ease: Timing function for acceleration (others: linear, ease-in, ease-out).When hovered, the box smoothly expands instead of changing abruptly.
The transition shorthand can include:
css
transition: [property] [duration] [timing-function] [delay];
css
transition: background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0.1s;
Property: What to animate (background-color, transform, etc.).Duration: How long it runs.Timing function: Controls acceleration (ease, linear, cubic-bezier).Delay: Wait time before starting.While transitions depend on user interaction, animations use keyframes and can run automatically, repeatedly, or infinitely.
css
@keyframes bounce {
0%, 100% { transform: translateY(0); }
50% { transform: translateY(-50px); }
}
.ball {
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
background: tomato;
border-radius: 50%;
animation: bounce 1s ease-in-out infinite;
}
@keyframes defines stages for the animation.50% then back down at 100%.css
animation: name duration timing-function delay iteration-count direction fill-mode play-state;
css
animation: slideIn 2s ease-out 0.5s 1 forwards;
name: Keyframes name.duration: Animation length.iteration-count: infinite or a number.direction: normal, reverse, alternate.fill-mode: forwards lets the animation keep its final state.play-state: Can pause/resume animations.| Feature | Transitions | Animations |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger | User interaction/event | Can run automatically |
| Control | Start/End states only | Multiple stages with keyframes |
| Complexity | Simple effects (hover, fade) | Advanced motion, loops, sequences |
Use transitions for simple effects like hover changes.
Use animations for repeated or multi-step effects like loading spinners, bouncing balls, or complex UI motion.
css
button {
background: #0077cc;
color: white;
padding: 10px 20px;
border: none;
transition: background 0.3s, transform 0.3s;
}
button:hover {
background: #005fa3;
transform: scale(1.05);
}
css
@keyframes spin {
from { transform: rotate(0deg); }
to { transform: rotate(360deg); }
}
.loader {
width: 40px;
height: 40px;
border: 4px solid #ccc;
border-top: 4px solid #0077cc;
border-radius: 50%;
animation: spin 1s linear infinite;
}
CSS transitions and animations make your interfaces more dynamic, engaging, and intuitive.
@keyframes animations when you need looping or multi-step motion.Mastering these basics opens the door to more advanced microinteractions that can bring a site to life without extra JavaScript overhead.
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2025-11-11 10:26:45
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2025-11-11 10:17:20
If you’ve ever opened a battery enclosure CAD and thought, “This plate looks fine… but will the far-end cells actually see the same coolant?”, you’re in the right place.
I was reviewing a battery pack where the customer only gave us total heat for the module, not per-cell values. Classic. Instead of waiting for “final” data, I just ran a few quick thermal/CFD cases on the cooling plate to see what actually changes the cell-side temperature spread.
Spoiler:inlet position and flow split mattered more than the fancy channel pattern.
Battery cold plates are flat, look simple, and in drawings they always cool “evenly”. Real life isn’t that kind.
So I wanted to answer a small, practical question:
“If I can only change the inlet/outlet location and the flow rate, can I pull the ΔT down enough without redesigning the whole plate?” That’s something a pack engineer or supplier can actually do mid-project.
Setup
Same aluminum cooling plate
Same internal channel
Same total heat load applied on the battery contact surface
Coolant: water-glycol, fixed inlet temp
Coolant enters on the short edge, travels all the way, exits on the other edge.
Flow near the inlet was nice and energetic.
Last 20–25% of the plate ran slower.
Surface temperature there was ~1.4–1.6 °C higher.
So the flow “cuts through” the plate.
Flow distribution was more balanced.
Far corner wasn’t starving anymore.
Max surface temperature dropped by about 1 °C compared to Case A.
Not a massive number, but this was a cheap change — just moving ports.
Takeaway: if your plate is wide and you only feed from one side, you will pay for it at the far corner.
Next question: “What if the system pump actually has a bit more to give?”
I reran Case B and increased flow by ~20% (still within what a small pump could do).
So even without changing channels, a modest flow bump + better port placement already made the map look “production-friendly”.
Because customers love to change requirements, I also threw in a higher heat load — roughly “the same plate, but now it’s fast-charging”.
Which means if you fix flow early, the plate will scale better when loads increase.
This is useful when the electrical team says “we might go 1.2× later”.
You already know the plate’s behavior.
These small “what-if” runs reminded me that in battery cooling, flow is the first-order effect.
Fancy channels help, but if your inlet/outlet placement isn’t feeding the plate evenly, you’re fighting physics with geometry.
If you’re designing or sourcing liquid-cooled plates for EVs, ESS, or power electronics, it’s worth running one quick CFD case early — before the tooling, before the validation.
It saves months later.
That’s how we work at XD Thermal Technology Co., Ltd.
— a full-service supplier of battery cooling plates, serpentine tubes, and housings for EV and energy-storage systems.
We design, simulate, and build thermal hardware that actually scales from prototype to production.