Manu — A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System

Overview

Manu is a cloud-native vector database management system that separates storage and compute for scalable approximate nearest neighbor search in cloud environments.

Architecture

• Cloud-native design with storage-compute separation
• Distributed architecture for horizontal scaling
• Handles billion-scale vector datasets
• Optimized for cloud deployment

Publication

• Venue: VLDB 2022
• Authors: Guo et al.

Key Features

• Storage-compute separation for cost efficiency
• Distributed indexing across nodes
• Elastic scaling capabilities