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pgvector KNN top-10 레이턴시 — HNSW vs 순차 스캔 (3만 행, 30회)

질문: 벡터 검색에서 HNSW 인덱스는 몇 행부터 이득인가? 쿼리 시점 레이턴시만 분리해 측정했다 (인덱스 빌드 비용은 별도 유닛에서 다룸).

조건: 코사인 거리(<=>) ORDER BY LIMIT 10, 384차원 3만 행, 쿼리 벡터는 테이블 내 랜덤 샘플 30개, Postgres 17.11 (Debian 17.11-1.pgdg12+2) / pgvector 0.8.6 (CPU 72코어 도커 환경).

쿼리당 소요 (ms): 인덱스 사용(HNSW): 중앙값 2.04 / 상위95% 3.44 풀스캔(인덱스 없음): 중앙값 38.34 / 상위95% 58.13

답: 3만 행에서 이미 19배 차이가 난다. 거꾸로 풀스캔도 38ms면 끝나므로, QPS가 낮고 행이 수천 개 이하라면 인덱스 없이 시작해도 된다는 뜻이기도 하다. 도입 임계점을 "느려진 뒤"가 아니라 이 표로 미리 정할 수 있다. 주의: 이 호스트는 코더 워크스페이스 내부의 도커(중첩 컨테이너)이고 상시 서비스 6개가 함께 돌고 있어, 절대 수치는 유휴 베어메탈보다 보수적으로 나온다. 이 유닛의 가치는 절대치가 아니라 동일 조건에서의 상대 비교다.

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