Catalog Systems Search platforms (non-memory) Vald

Vald

https://vald.vdaas.org/

Yahoo Japan's open-source distributed vector search engine — built on NGT; Kubernetes-native; horizontal scaling.

Active · Verified 2026-10-26 · fresh as of 2026-10-26 · 15 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction

At a glance

Type
Cloud-native distributed vector search vendor fix
Tier
T3
Section
Search platforms (non-memory)
Created
2019 vendor fix
Latest release
searched not found fix
License
Apache-2.0 vendor fix
GitHub
vdaas/vald — ~1.7k stars, active (commit date not captured) repo fix
Pricing
free (OSS) repo fix
Funding
searched not found fix
Freshness
2026-10-26 fix
Layer
model-infra repo fix
Licensing
open-source vendor fix
Deployment locus
local repo fix
Platform vs product
platform vendor fix
SDK languages
go, java, python, typescript vendor fix
Developer activity
OpenRank 1.54 (12-mo avg 8.24) · 6 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix

When to use

Optimised for: searched not found

Anti-fit: searched not found

Pros & cons

Pros

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Cons

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Claims & capabilities

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Technical surface

API surface
searched not found
Backend storage
searched not found
Deployment
Self-hosted only — Kubernetes-native distributed vector search engine
Embedding model
searched not found
Multi-tenancy
searched not found
MCP
searched not found
A2A
searched not found
OpenTelemetry
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Sources (14 cited facts, 1 third-party)

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What changed

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  1. 2026-10-26
    • Pricing first recorded as “free (OSS)” source
    • Deployment first recorded as “Self-hosted only — Kubernetes-native distributed vector search engine” source
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