BES

Baidu Geek Talk

Nov 8, 2023 · Databases

BES Engineering Practices for Large‑Scale Vector Database Scenarios

At QCon 2023, Baidu’s BES team detailed how their cloud‑native Elasticsearch service has been engineered for large‑scale vector search, describing architecture, C++ plugin integration, memory‑saving storage tricks, HNSW/IVF optimizations, filter strategies, and real‑world multimodal video and LLM knowledge‑base deployments.