Search Benchmark, the Game

IResearch is SereneDB's open-source C++ search engine, designed to be embedded directly inside a database. It supports inverted indexes, BM25 ranking, columnar storage, vector search, geospatial indexing, and pluggable scoring.

The benchmark uses the English Wikipedia corpus and AOL query set to measure term, phrase, intersection, union, mandatory/optional, negation, and two-phase workloads.

Why it matters

For e-commerce, internal tools, logging platforms, and AI knowledge bases, lower search latency improves user experience and infrastructure economics while avoiding a separate search index.

Read a markdown version at /search-benchmark-game.md.