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KJ · Dec 9, 2025

What I learned building a vector database on S3

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When I came across Turbopuffer , a vector database built entirely on object storage, I got curious. Really curious. The architecture seemed almost too simple. Write-ahead logs on S3? Centroid-based indexes ? Stateless query nodes ? It felt like someone had taken all the “rules” of database design and just… ignored them. I wanted to understand the tradeoffs myself. Not by reading more blog posts,…

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