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turbopuffer: a Trillions-Scale Search Engine on Object Storage

Nikhil Benesch22 minutes

In this Monster Scale Summit Presentation

Building a trillion-scale vector search system is one challenge; running it as a multi-tenant SaaS service is another. Attendees will leave with a concrete understanding of how separating storage from compute—and treating object storage as the primary database—changes not only the cost structure, but the entire operational model of large-scale search.

Nikhil Benesch, CTO, turbopuffer

Nikhil Benesch is a systems engineer at turbopuffer who specializes in full-text search. He has a strange obsession with handling data at scale. Before joining turbopuffer, he was CTO and co-founder of Materialize, a real-time SQL database.