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Phase B: Lance pilot — hybrid decision with measured benchmark

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Standalone benchmark crate `crates/lance-bench` running Lance 4.0 against
our Parquet+HNSW at 100K × 768d (resumes_100k_v2) measured 8 dimensions.

Results (see docs/ADR-019-vector-storage.md for full scorecard):

  Cold load:        Parquet 0.17s   vs Lance 0.13s   (tie — not ≥2× threshold)
  Disk size:        330.3 MB        vs 330.4 MB      (tie)
  Search p50:       873us           vs 2229us        (Parquet 2.55× faster)
  Search p95:       1413us          vs 4998us        (Parquet 3.54× faster)
  Index build:      230s (ec=80)    vs 16s (IVF_PQ)  (Lance 14× faster)
  Random access:    35ms (scan)     vs 311us         (Lance 112× faster)
  Append 10K rows:  full rewrite    vs 0.08s/+31MB   (Lance structural win)

Decision (ADR-019): hybrid, not migrate-or-reject.

- Parquet+HNSW stays primary — our HNSW at ec=80 es=30 recall=1.00 is
  2.55× faster than Lance IVF_PQ at 100K in-RAM scale
- Lance joins as second backend per-profile for workloads where it wins
  architecturally: random row access (RAG text fetch), append-heavy
  pipelines (Phase C), hot-swap generations (Phase 16, 14× faster
  builds), and indexes past the ~5M RAM ceiling
- Phase 17 ModelProfile gets vector_backend: Parquet | Lance field
- Ceiling table in PRD updated — 5M ceiling now says "switch to Lance"
  instead of "migrate" since Lance runs alongside, not instead of

Isolation: lance-bench is a standalone workspace crate with its own dep
tree (Lance pulls DataFusion 52 + Arrow 57 incompatible with main stack
DataFusion 47 + Arrow 55). Kept off the critical path until API is
stable enough to promote into vectord::lance_store.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Step | Deliverable | Decision criteria |
|---|---|---|
| 18.1 | Parallel Lance-backed vector index for `resumes_100k_v2` behind feature flag | Both implementations coexist, benchmarkable |
| 18.2 | Head-to-head benchmark: cold-load, search latency, disk size, append cost | See criteria below |
| 18.3 | ADR-019 documenting the decision with measured data | Commit or reject with evidence |
| 18.1 | ✅ Parallel Lance-backed vector index for `resumes_100k_v2` in standalone `crates/lance-bench` | Built 2026-04-16 |
| 18.2 | ✅ Head-to-head benchmark across 8 dimensions (cold-load, search latency, disk, index build, random access, append) | Complete |
| 18.3 | ✅ ADR-019 committed with measured data and decision | See `docs/ADR-019-vector-storage.md` |
**Decision rules:**
- Lance wins on cold-load by ≥2× AND matches search latency → migrate vector layer to Lance. Dataset Parquet stays.
- Lance is within 50% of current → stay on current stack, document ceiling explicitly.
- Lance loses → close the door, move on.
**Outcome:** Hybrid architecture. Parquet+HNSW stays primary (2.55× faster search at 100K in-RAM). Lance joins as a second backend for Phase 16 hot-swap (14× faster index builds), Phase C/append workloads (0.08s vs full rewrite), RAG random-access retrieval (112× faster), and indexes past the ~5M RAM ceiling.
Per-profile `vector_backend: Parquet | Lance` becomes part of Phase 17 (model profiles). See ADR-019 for the full scorecard and caveats.
### Phase 19+: Further horizon
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| Dimension | Current ceiling | Breaks at | Escape hatch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vector count per index | ~5M vectors on 128GB RAM | 10M+ (serious web crawl) | Phase 18 Lance migration OR mmap'd embeddings |
| Vector count per index (Parquet+HNSW in-RAM) | ~5M on 128GB | Past 5M | Switch that profile's `vector_backend` to Lance per ADR-019 — IVF_PQ stays on disk-resident quantized codes |
| Concurrent active indexes | ~50-100 at 100K vectors each | 10M×50 configurations | Lance disk-resident + per-profile activation |
| Rows per dataset | 2.47M proven, probably 100M+ fine | Approaches DataFusion memory limits | DataFusion predicate pushdown + partition pruning (existing) |
| Concurrent loaded models | 1-2 on 16GB VRAM (A4000) | 3+ models simultaneous | Not our problem — architectural, driven by Ollama |