Built-in authentication and authorization for Manticore Search
Manticore Search adds built-in authentication and authorization across SQL/MySQL, HTTP, and replication-related operations so teams can control who connects and what each user can do.
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Manticore Search 28.4.4: Faster KNN, better conversational search, easier installs and more faceting controls
Manticore Search 28.4.4 speeds up KNN rescoring, adds HTTP/custom-prompt conversational search, simplifies installs, improves facets and relevance defaults, and fixes auth, replication, SQL, and columnar/KNN issues.
Turbopuffer vs. Manticore Search on a couple of cheap VPS
A head-to-head benchmark on 975K 1536-dim vectors: turbopuffer's managed service vs Manticore on two $8.25/mo VPS. Matched recall (~0.966), ~4.5× lower cost, and comparable latency and throughput, with an honest look at where each approach wins.
Faster KNN index builds in Manticore
Manticore can now build KNN indexes in parallel when saving chunks, merging chunks, and rebuilding KNN data. On a 16-core machine, building a KNN index for 1M vectors dropped from 8 minutes to 39 seconds.
Sharding in Manticore Search: automatic distribution and replication
How sharding works in Manticore Search, from splitting a table across CPU cores on a single node to automatic multi-node distribution that maintains a replication factor on its own.
14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore
Released in Manticore Search 27.1.5, the new ONNX Runtime backend makes auto-embeddings ~14× faster on average than the previous SentenceTransformers/Candle path on the same hardware, same model, same weights — and the margin holds whether you run 1 client thread or 32.