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When Index Read Latency Creeps Up, Look Beyond Compaction

Jim KnicelyMay 22, 2026

A slow query is not always just a “bad query.” Sometimes the query plan looks reasonable, the index is being used, and […]

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Why HNSW Indexes Are So Fast in YugabyteDB

Jim KnicelyApril 22, 2026

Vector search gets expensive fast. Without an index, every query has to compare your search embedding against every row in the table. […]

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No Primary Key in YSQL? YugabyteDB Still Creates One

Jim KnicelyApril 15, 2026

At first glance, YugabyteDB behaves just like PostgreSQL. You can create a table without a primary key: CREATE TABLE no_pk(id INT); No […]

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How to Do a Simple Index Consistency Check

Jim KnicelyApril 13, 2026

Indexes are supposed to accurately reflect what’s in the base table. Newer versions of YugabyteDB include yb_index_check() to validate this, but if […]

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