vdb: A Header-Only C Library for Vector Database Operations
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Summary
vdb is a lightweight, header-only C library for storing and searching high-dimensional vector embeddings. The library provides database management functions for creating, destroying, and counting vectors in a vector database, with optional multithreading support through pthreads. It includes API references for database operations and supports different compilation approaches depending on threading needs.
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Include vdb.h and compile with either approach, pthreads is not necessarily available which is why this is behind a flag.
vdb_database *vdb_create(size_t dimensions, vdb_metric metric) - Creates a new vector database.
void vdb_destroy(vdb_database *db) - Frees all resources associated with the database.
size_t vdb_count(const vdb_database *db) - Returns the number of vectors in the database.
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