Don't use a vector database for code, embeddings are slow and bad for code. Code likes bm25+trigram, that gets better results while keeping search responses snappy.
The repo includes also plpgsql_bm25rrf.sql : PL/pgSQL function for hybrid search ( plpgsql_bm25 + pgvector ) with Reciprocal Rank Fusion; and Jupyter notebook examples.
I agree. Someone here posted a drop-in for grep that added the ability to do hybrid text/vector search but the constant need to re-index files was annoying and a drag. Moreover, vector search can add a ton of noise if the model isn't meant for code search and if you're not using a re-ranker.
For all intents and purposes, running gpt-oss 20B in a while loop with access to ripgrep works pretty dang well. gpt-oss is a tool calling god compared to everything else i've tried, and fast.
static embedding models im finding quite fast
lee101/gobed https://github.com/lee101/gobed is 1ms on gpu :) would need to be trained for code though the bigger code llm embeddings can be high quality too so its just yea about where is ideal on the pareto fronteir really , often yea though your right it tends to be bm25 or rg even for code but yea more complex solutions are kind of possible too if its really important the search is high quality
The Nextcloud MCP Server [0] supports Qdrant as a vectordb to store embeddings and provide semantic search across your personal documents. This enables any LLM & MCP client (e.g. claude code) into a RAG system that you can use to chat with your files.
For local deployments, Qdrant supports storing embeddings in memory as well as in a local directory (similar to sqlite) - for larger deployments Qdrant supports running as a standalone service/sidecar and can be made available over the network.
lee101/gobed https://github.com/lee101/gobed static embedding models so they are embedded in milliseconds and on gpu search with a cagra style on gpu index with a few things for speed like int8 quantization on the embeddings and fused embedding and search in the same kernel as the embedding really is just a trained map of embeddings per token/averaging
Shameless plug: https://github.com/jankovicsandras/plpgsql_bm25 BM25 search implemented in PL/pgSQL ( Unlicense / Public domain )
The repo includes also plpgsql_bm25rrf.sql : PL/pgSQL function for hybrid search ( plpgsql_bm25 + pgvector ) with Reciprocal Rank Fusion; and Jupyter notebook examples.
For all intents and purposes, running gpt-oss 20B in a while loop with access to ripgrep works pretty dang well. gpt-oss is a tool calling god compared to everything else i've tried, and fast.
For local deployments, Qdrant supports storing embeddings in memory as well as in a local directory (similar to sqlite) - for larger deployments Qdrant supports running as a standalone service/sidecar and can be made available over the network.
[0] https://github.com/cbcoutinho/nextcloud-mcp-server
Works well, but I didn't tested on larger scale
https://pypi.org/project/faiss-cpu/
If the total size of your data isn't loo large...?
Data being a plural gets me.
You might have small datums but a lot of kilobytes!