# Changelog
## v0.7.2
### What's Changed
This release includes a fix for the file system issue happening on Windows which
happen when the default temporary directory in in a different drive than the
current working directory. This issue is fixed by creating a temporary directory
in the root of the database directory.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.7.1...v0.7.2](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.7.1...v0.7.2)
## v0.7.1
### What's Changed
This release includes a low-level CRUD API for the index implementation from the
Database layer. Once the index is built, when necessary, you can use the CRUD
API to manage the index data directly. This API allows you to perform the
following operations:
- Insert new records into the index.
- Update existing records in the index.
- Delete records from the index.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.7.0...v0.7.1](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.7.0...v0.7.1)
## v0.7.0
### What's Changed
OasysDB v0.7.0 is a major release that includes a complete overhaul of the
system. Instead of being a dedicated vector database, OasysDB is now a hybrid
vector database that integrates with SQL databases such as SQLite and PostgreSQL
which you can configure to store the vector records. This approach gives various
advantages such as:
- Reliability and durability of the data due to SQL database ACID properties.
- Separation of vector storage and computation allowing you to scale the system
independently.
These are some of the key changes in this release:
- **SQL Storage Layer**: OasysDB can be configured to source vector records from
a SQL database such as SQLite or PostgreSQL.
- **Multi-index Support**: OasysDB can support multiple indices for the same SQL
table allowing users to improve the search performance.
- **Pre-filtering**: OasysDB can pre-filter the vector records from SQL tables
based on the metadata before inserting them into the index.
- **Configurable Algorithm**: Each index in OasysDB can be configured with
different algorithms and parameters to fit the performance requirements.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.6.1...v0.7.0](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.6.1...v0.7.0)
## v0.6.1
### What's Changed
- Add support for boolean metadata type. This allows full compatibility with
JSON-like object or dictionary metadata when storing vector records in the
collection.
- We optimize the database save and get collection operations performance by
10-20% by reducing the number of IO operations. Also, the save collection
operation is now atomic which means that the collection is saved to the disk
only when the operation is completed successfully.
- We launch our own documentation website at
[docs.oasysdb.com](https://docs.oasysdb.com) to provide a better user
experience and more comprehensive documentation for the OasysDB library. It's
still a work in progress and we will continue to improve the documentation
over time.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.6.0...v0.6.1](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.6.0...v0.6.1)
## v0.6.0
### What's Changed
- **CONDITIONAL BREAKING CHANGE**: We remove support for dot distance metric and
we replace cosine similarity with cosine distance metric. This change is made
to make the distance metric consistent with the other distance metrics.
- The default configuration for the collection (EF Construction and EF Search)
is increased to a more sensible value according to the common real-world use
cases. The default EF Construction is set to 128 and the default EF Search is
set to 64.
- We add a new script to measure the recall rate of the collection search
functionality. And with this, we improve the search recall rate of OasysDB to
match the recall rate of HNSWLib with the same configuration.
```sh
cargo run --example measure-recall
```
- We add a new benchmark to measure the performance of saving and getting the
collection. The benchmark can be run by running the command below.
```sh
cargo bench
```
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.5.1...v0.6.0](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.5.1...v0.6.0)
## v0.5.1
### What's Changed
We add a new method `Collection.filter` to filter the vector records based on
the metadata. This method returns a HashMap of the filtered vector records and
their corresponding vector IDs. This implementation performs a linear search
through the collection and thus might be slow for large datasets.
This implementation includes support for the following metadata to filter:
- `String`: Stored value must include the filter string.
- `Float`: Stored value must be equal to the filter float.
- `Integer`: Stored value must be equal to the filter integer.
- `Object`: Stored value must match all the key-value pairs in the filter
object.
We currently don't support filtering based on the array type metadata because I
am not sure of the best way to implement it. If you have any suggestions, please
let me know.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.5.0...v0.5.1](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.5.0...v0.5.1)
## v0.5.0
### What's Changed
- **BREAKING CHANGE**: Although there is no change in the database API, the
underlying storage format has been changed to save the collection data to
dedicated files directly. The details of the new persistent system and how to
migrate from v0.4.x to v0.5.0 can be found in this migration guide.
- By adding the feature `gen`, you can now use the `EmbeddingModel` trait and
OpenAI's embedding models to generate vectors or records from text without
external dependencies. This feature is optional and can be enabled by adding
the feature to the `Cargo.toml` file.
```toml
[dependencies]
oasysdb = { version = "0.5.0", features = ["gen"] }
```
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.4.5...v0.5.0](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.4.5...v0.5.0)
## v0.4.5
### What's Changed
- Add insert benchmark to measure the performance of inserting vectors into the
collection. The benchmark can be run using the `cargo bench` command.
- Fix the issue with large-size dirty IO buffers caused by the database
operation. This issue is fixed by flushing the dirty IO buffers after the
operation is completed. This operation can be done synchronously or
asynchronously based on the user's preference since this operation might take
some time to complete.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.4.4...v0.4.5](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.4.4...v0.4.5)
## v0.4.4
### What's Changed
- Maximize compatibility with the standard library error types to allow users to
convert OasysDB errors to most commonly used error handling libraries such as
`anyhow`, `thiserror`, etc.
- Add conversion methods to convert metadata to JSON value by `serde_json` and
vice versa. This allows users to store JSON format metadata easily.
- Add normalized cosine distance metric to the collection search functionality.
Read more about the normalized cosine distance metric here.
- Fix the search distance calculation to use the correct distance metric and
sort it accordingly based on the collection configuration.
- Add vector ID utility methods to the `VectorID` struct to make it easier to
work with the vector ID.
### Additional Notes
- Add a new benchmark to measure the true search AKA brute-force search
performance of the collection. If possible, dealing with a small dataset, it
is recommended to use the true search method for better accuracy. The
benchmark can be run using the `cargo bench` command.
- Improve the documentation to include more examples and explanations on how to
use the library: Comprehensive Guide.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.4.3...v0.4.4](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.4.3...v0.4.4)
## v0.4.3
### What's Changed
- Add SIMD acceleration to calculate the distance between vectors. This improves
the performance of inserting and searching vectors in the collection.
- Improve OasysDB native error type implementation to include the type/kind of
error that occurred in addition to the error message. For example,
`ErrorKind::CollectionError` is used to represent errors that occur during
collection operations.
- Fix the `Config.ml` default value from 0.3 to 0.2885 which is the optimal
value for the HNSW with M of 32. The optimal value formula for ml is
`1/ln(M)`.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.4.2...v0.4.3](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.4.2...v0.4.3)
## v0.4.2
### What's Changed
Due to an issue (#62) with the Python release of v0.4.1, this patch version is
released to fix the build wheels for Python users. The issue is caused due to
the new optional PyO3 feature for the v0.4.1 Rust crate release which exclude
PyO3 dependencies from the build process. To solve this, the Python package
build and deploy script now includes `--features py` argument.
For Rust users, this version doesn't offer any additional features or
functionality compared to v0.4.1 release.
### Full Changelog
[v0.4.1...v0.4.2](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.4.1...v0.4.2)
## v0.4.1
### What's Changed
- Added quality of life improvements to the `VectorID` type interoperability.
- Improved the `README.md` file with additional data points on the database
performance.
- Changed to `Collection.insert` method to return the new `VectorID` after
inserting a new vector record.
- Pyo3 dependencies are now hidden behind the `py` feature. This allows users to
build the library without the Python bindings if they don't need it, which is
probably all of them.
### Contributors
- @dteare
- @edwinkys
- @noneback
### Full Changelog
[v0.4.0...v0.4.1](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.4.0...v0.4.1)
## v0.4.0
### What's Changed
- **CONDITIONAL BREAKING CHANGE**: Add an option to configure distance for the
vector collection via `Config` struct. The new field `distance` can be set
using the `Distance` enum. This includes Euclidean, Cosine, and Dot distance
metrics. The default distance metric is Euclidean. This change is backward
compatible if you are creating a config using the `Config::default()` method.
Otherwise, you need to update the config to include the distance metric.
```rs
let config = Config {
...
distance: Distance::Cosine,
};
```
- With the new distance metric feature, now, you can set a `relevancy` threshold
for the search results. This will filter out the results that are below or
above the threshold depending on the distance metric used. This feature is
disabled by default which is set to -1.0. To enable this feature, you can set
the `relevancy` field in the `Collection` struct.
```rs
...
let mut collection = Collection::new(&config)?;
collection.relevancy = 3.0;
```
- Add a new method `Collection::insert_many` to insert multiple vector records
into the collection at once. This method is more optimized than using the
`Collection::insert` method in a loop.
### Contributors
- @noneback
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.3.0...v0.4.0](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.3.0...v0.4.0)
## v0.3.0
This release introduces a BREAKING CHANGE to one of the method from the
`Database` struct. The `Database::create_collection` method has been removed
from the library due to redundancy. The `Database::save_collection` method can
be used to create a new collection or update an existing one. This change is
made to simplify the API and to make it more consistent with the other methods
in the `Database` struct.
### What's Changed
- **BREAKING CHANGE**: Removed the `Database::create_collection` method from the
library. To replace this, you can use the code snippet below:
```rs
// Before: this creates a new empty collection.
db.create_collection("vectors", None, Some(records))?;
// After: create new or build a collection then save it.
// let collection = Collection::new(&config)?;
let collection = Collection::build(&config, &records)?;
db.save_collection("vectors", &collection)?;
```
- Added the `Collection::list` method to list all the vector records in the
collection.
- Created a full Python binding for OasysDB which is available on PyPI. This
allows you to use OasysDB directly from Python. The Python binding is
available at https://pypi.org/project/oasysdb.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
- @Zelaren
- @FebianFebian1
### Full Changelog
[v0.2.1...v0.3.0](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.2.1...v0.3.0)
## v0.2.1
### What's Changed
- `Metadata` enum can now be accessed publicly using
`oasysdb::metadata::Metadata`. This allows users to use `match` statements to
extract the data from it.
- Added a `prelude` module that re-exports the most commonly used types and
traits. This makes it easier to use the library by importing the prelude
module by `use oasysdb::prelude::*`.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.2.0...v0.2.1](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.2.0...v0.2.1)
## v0.2.0
### What's Changed
- For `Collection` struct, the generic parameter `D` has been replaced with
`Metadata` enum which allows one collection to store different types of data
as needed.
- The `Vector` now uses `Vec<f32>` instead of `[f32, N]` which removes the `N`
generic parameter from the `Vector` struct. Since there is a chance of using
different vector dimensions in the same collection with this change, An
additional functionality is added to the `Collection` to make sure that the
vector dimension is uniform.
- The `M` generic parameter in the `Collection` struct has been replaced with a
constant of 32. This removes the flexibility to tweak the indexing
configuration for this value. But for most use cases, this value should be
sufficient.
- Added multiple utility functions to structs such as `Record`, `Vector`, and
`Collection` to make it easier to work with the data.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.1.0...v0.2.0](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0)
## v0.1.0
### What's Changed
- OasysDB release as an embedded vector database available directly via
`cargo add oasysdb` command.
- Using HNSW algorithm implementation for the collection indexing along with
Euclidean distance metrics.
- Incremental updates on the vector collections allowing inserts, deletes, and
modifications without rebuilding the index.
- Add a benchmark on the collection search functionality using SIFT dataset that
can be run using `cargo bench` command.
### Contributors
- @edwinkys
### Full Changelog
[v0.1.0](https://github.com/oasysai/oasysdb/commits/v0.1.0)