# Supabase — pgvector 0.6.0: 30x faster with parallel index builds

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-01-30
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/pgvector-fast-builds
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21449-pgvector-0-6-0-30x-faster-with-parallel-index-builds
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase announced pgvector 0.6.0, which adds parallel builds for HNSW indexes. Building an HNSW index is now up to 30x faster for unlogged tables and 7–9 times faster for logged tables on a 4XL instance. The release also allows tuning of HNSW build parameters without affecting search accuracy or queries per second.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://supabase.com/blog/pgvector-fast-builds:

> pgvector 0.6.0 was released today, with a significant improvement: parallel builds for HNSW indexes. Building an HNSW index is now up to 30x faster for unlogged tables.

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