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    SPANN

    Highly-efficient billion-scale approximate nearest neighbor search system from Microsoft Research. Uses a memory-disk hybrid architecture storing centroid points in memory and large posting lists on disk.

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    Overview

    SPANN (Highly-efficient Billion-scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search) is a memory-disk hybrid vector indexing and search system developed by Microsoft Research that follows the inverted index methodology.

    Architecture

    SPANN stores only the centroid points of posting lists in memory while putting the large posting lists on disk. This hybrid approach enables efficient billion-scale vector search with reduced memory requirements.

    Performance

    • Significantly outperforms DiskANN in both recall@1 and recall@10
    • More than 2x faster than DiskANN, especially in low query latency budgets (less than 4ms)
    • Requires more than 30% of the dataset size in memory for graph indexing

    Technical Details

    SPANN is an on-disk cluster-based index that stores clusters on disk and maintains a small graph in memory to index the nearest clusters. The system is designed for applications requiring billion-scale vector search with memory efficiency.

    Research

    Published by Microsoft Research, SPANN represents a significant advancement in disk-based vector indexing technologies and serves as a benchmark for hybrid vector search systems.

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    Websitewww.microsoft.com
    PublishedMar 8, 2026

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