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turbopuffer

vector and full-text search built on object storage: fast, 10x cheaper, and extremely scalable

articleX5 Aug 2026

How to build a 256 TB search index

turbopuffer is a search database built directly on object storage. The system has a single stateful dependency (S3/GCS) and leans heavily into compute/storage disaggregation.

Nathan VanBenschoten@natevanben
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