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UBASE: ByteDance's AI Search Engine Handles Trillion-Scale Vector Data

UBASE, ByteDance's AI search infrastructure since 2016, has scaled to over 7,000 clusters and 300 PB of data. It evolved from text search to a unified AI system supporting vector retrieval, lexical matching, and predicate filtering, indexing nearly one trillion high-dimensional vectors.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-31T11:19:16+00:00 Detected 2026-09-01T05:22:09+00:00
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UBASE, ByteDance's AI search infrastructure since 2016, has scaled to over 7,000 clusters and 300 PB of data. It evolved from text search to a unified AI system supporting vector retrieval, lexical matching, and predicate filtering, indexing nearly one trillion high-dimensional vectors.

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Since 2016, UBASE has been the foundation of ByteDance's search infrastructure, scaling to more than 7,000 clusters and 300 PB of indexed data. Driven by the demands of AI workloads, UBASE has evolved from a text search engine into a unified AI search system supporting vector retrieval, lexical matching, and...

UBASE demonstrates the ability to manage and search extremely large-scale vector data, addressing the demands of AI workloads. This capability is critical for advancing AI-powered search and recommendation systems at massive scale.

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