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Manticore Search: mmap speeds up columnar KNN rescoring

calendar_today October 5, 2026 domain manticore

Manticore Search supports both row-wise and columnar attribute storage . Row-wise storage works well when the working set fits in memory, but columnar storage becomes especially useful when large datasets exceed RAM: queries that need only a few attributes can read and cache mostly the data they actually use.

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