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lightonai/next-plaid

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NextPlaid is a robust, local-first multi-vector database and indexing engine designed for efficient retrieval workloads. It differentiates itself from traditional single-vector databases by storing multiple embeddings per document, allowing for richer semantic representations, particularly beneficial for complex data like code. NextPlaid features built-in encoding for ColBERT models using ONNX Runtime, offering a complete search solution without external inference servers. Its architecture emphasizes resource efficiency with memory-mapped indices, low RAM footprint, and product quantization (2-bit or 4-bit compression), enabling millions of documents to fit in memory. The engine supports incremental updates, allowing documents to be added and deleted without full index rebuilds, and integrates metadata pre-filtering via SQL WHERE clauses on an embedded SQLite store to refine search results before scoring. It is primarily CPU-optimized but also supports CUDA for enhanced performance when needed. NextPlaid is the underlying technology for ColGREP, a semantic code search tool that combines regex filtering with semantic ranking for developer terminals and AI coding agents. ColGREP allows users to build and search indexes locally, integrating with tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex. It processes code units into structured text before embedding, providing richer context for the model.

https://github.com/lightonai/next-plaid

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