rust-vector-db is a lightweight, educational vector database implemented in Rust, leveraging memory safety, high performance, and SIMD instructions for efficient vector storage and retrieval. It supports HNSW indexing, product quantization, disk persistence, and distance metrics like cosine similarity, Euclidean, and dot product. Perfect for high-perf embedded and edge AI applications or learning purposes; more performant and safer than Python-based libraries like Chroma.