AgentDB Performance Optimization

AgentDB Performance Optimization

What This Skill Does

Provides comprehensive performance optimization techniques for AgentDB vector databases. Achieve 150x-12,500x performance improvements through quantization, HNSW indexing, caching strategies, and batch operations. Reduce memory usage by 4-32x while maintaining accuracy.

Performance: 512 dims)

• Image/video embeddings
• Large-scale similarity search

Performance:

• Memory: 8-16x smaller
• Search Speed: 5x faster
• Accuracy: 93-97% of original

4. No Quantization (Full Precision)

Best For: Maximum accuracy, small datasets Trade-off: No accuracy loss, full memory usage

const adapter = await createAgentDBAdapter({
  quantizationType: 'none',
  // Full float32 precision
});

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HNSW Indexing

Hierarchical Navigable Small World - O(log n) search complexity

Automatic HNSW

AgentDB automatically builds HNSW indices:

const adapter = await createAgentDBAdapter({
  dbPath: '.agentdb/vectors.db',
  // HNSW automatically enabled
});

// Search with HNSW (100µs vs 15ms linear scan)
const results = await adapter.retrieveWithReasoning(queryEmbedding, {
  k: 10,
});

HNSW Parameters

// Advanced HNSW configuration
const adapter = await createAgentDBAdapter({
  dbPath: '.agentdb/vectors.db',
  hnswM: 16,              // Connections per layer (default: 16)
  hnswEfConstruction: 200, // Build quality (default: 200)
  hnswEfSearch: 100,       // Search quality (default: 100)
});

Parameter Tuning:

• M (connections): Higher = better recall, more memory
• Small datasets (100K): M = 32
• efConstruction: Higher = better index quality, slower build
• Fast build: 100
• Balanced: 200 (default)
• High quality: 400
• efSearch: Higher = better recall, slower search
• Fast search: 50
• Balanced: 100 (default)
• High recall: 200

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Caching Strategies

In-Memory Pattern Cache

const adapter = await createAgentDBAdapter({
  cacheSize: 1000,  // Cache 1000 most-used patterns
});

// First retrieval: ~2ms (database)
// Subsequent: 80% hit rate

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Batch Operations

Batch Insert (500x Faster)

// ❌ SLOW: Individual inserts
for (const doc of documents) {
  await adapter.insertPattern({ /* ... */ });  // 1s for 100 docs
}

// ✅ FAST: Batch insert
const patterns = documents.map(doc => ({
  id: '',
  type: 'document',
  domain: 'knowledge',
  pattern_data: JSON.stringify({
    embedding: doc.embedding,
    text: doc.text,
  }),
  confidence: 1.0,
  usage_count: 0,
  success_count: 0,
  created_at: Date.now(),
  last_used: Date.now(),
}));

// Insert all at once (2ms for 100 docs)
for (const pattern of patterns) {
  await adapter.insertPattern(pattern);
}

Batch Retrieval

// Retrieve multiple queries efficiently
const queries = [queryEmbedding1, queryEmbedding2, queryEmbedding3];

// Parallel retrieval
const results = await Promise.all(
  queries.map(q => adapter.retrieveWithReasoning(q, { k: 5 }))
);

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Memory Optimization

Automatic Consolidation

// Enable automatic pattern consolidation
const result = await adapter.retrieveWithReasoning(queryEmbedding, {
  domain: 'documents',
  optimizeMemory: true,  // Consolidate similar patterns
  k: 10,
});

console.log('Optimizations:', result.optimizations);
// {
//   consolidated: 15,  // Merged 15 similar patterns
//   pruned: 3,         // Removed 3 low-quality patterns
//   improved_quality: 0.12  // 12% quality improvement
// }

Manual Optimization

// Manually trigger optimization
await adapter.optimize();

// Get statistics
const stats = await adapter.getStats();
console.log('Before:', stats.totalPatterns);
console.log('After:', stats.totalPatterns);  // Reduced by ~10-30%

Pruning Strategies

// Prune low-confidence patterns
await adapter.prune({
  minConfidence: 0.5,     // Remove confidence 30 days old
});

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Performance Monitoring

Database Statistics

# Get comprehensive stats
npx agentdb@latest stats .agentdb/vectors.db

# Output:
# Total Patterns: 125,430
# Database Size: 47.2 MB (with binary quantization)
# Avg Confidence: 0.87
# Domains: 15
# Cache Hit Rate: 84%
# Index Type: HNSW

Runtime Metrics

const stats = await adapter.getStats();

console.log('Performance Metrics:');
console.log('Total Patterns:', stats.totalPatterns);
console.log('Database Size:', stats.dbSize);
console.log('Avg Confidence:', stats.avgConfidence);
console.log('Cache Hit Rate:', stats.cacheHitRate);
console.log('Search Latency (avg):', stats.avgSearchLatency);
console.log('Insert Latency (avg):', stats.avgInsertLatency);

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Optimization Recipes

Recipe 1: Maximum Speed (Sacrifice Accuracy)

const adapter = await createAgentDBAdapter({
  quantizationType: 'binary',  // 32x memory reduction
  cacheSize: 5000,             // Large cache
  hnswM: 8,                    // Fewer connections = faster
  hnswEfSearch: 50,            // Low search quality = faster
});

// Expected: 1M vectors)

```typescript
const adapter = await createAgentDBAdapter({
  quantizationType: 'product',  // 8-16x reduction
  cacheSize: 5000,
  hnswM: 48,
  hnswEfConstruction: 400,
});

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Troubleshooting

Issue: High memory usage

# Check database size
npx agentdb@latest stats .agentdb/vectors.db

# Enable quantization
# Use 'binary' for 32x reduction

Issue: Slow search performance

// Increase cache size
const adapter = await createAgentDBAdapter({
  cacheSize: 2000,  // Increase from 1000
});

// Reduce search quality (faster)
const result = await adapter.retrieveWithReasoning(queryEmbedding, {
  k: 5,  // Reduce from 10
});

Issue: Low accuracy

// Disable or use lighter quantization
const adapter = await createAgentDBAdapter({
  quantizationType: 'scalar',  // Instead of 'binary'
  hnswEfSearch: 200,           // Higher search quality
});

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Performance Benchmarks

Test System: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, 64GB RAM

| Operation | Vector Count | No Optimization | Optimized | Improvement | |-----------|-------------|-----------------|-----------|-------------| | Search | 10K | 15ms | 100µs | 150x | | Search | 100K | 150ms | 120µs | 1,250x | | Search | 1M | 100s | 8ms | 12,500x | | Batch Insert (100) | - | 1s | 2ms | 500x | | Memory Usage | 1M | 3GB | 96MB | 32x (binary) |

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Learn More

• Quantization Paper: docs/quantization-techniques.pdf
• HNSW Algorithm: docs/hnsw-index.pdf
• GitHub: https://github.com/ruvnet/agentic-flow/tree/main/packages/agentdb
• Website: https://agentdb.ruv.io

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Category: Performance / Optimization Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Time: 20-30 minutes

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: proffesor-for-testing
• Source: proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://agentic-qe.dev/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.