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And if you just have tens of thousands, straight up SQL can work pretty well, too.



If you have tens of thousands, a `for` loop over an array in memory is plenty fast.

I've worked on a project that searched through 50 million vectors with linear brute-force search, just with a sprinkle of AVX (and it used the brute-force search, because the curse of dimensionality killed all the smarter approaches).




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