And not to mention the cost profile.
Right now most indexing stacks are Java-heavy — Lucene, Elasticsearch, layers of heap, GC, sharding gymnastics.
You can tune Lucene, sure — but you’re still optimizing text scoring and inverted indexes.
At some point you hit diminishing returns.
A structured, algebraic index isn’t trying to score blobs faster.
It’s eliminating the blob problem entirely.
Less heap churn.
Less probabilistic ranking.
More deterministic traversal.
Different cost curve.
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