VecFuzz: SymSpell speed without the heavy RAM footprint
Reddit r/dataengineering1w4 min read
Hey everyone! A while back I shared an early prototype on reddit for a fuzzy string search idea I was working on. I finally finished implementing it, benchmarked it properly against SymSpell and RapidFuzz. Quick Highlights: Low RAM usage: Stays under 100 MB for a 100k-word dictionary (for comparison, SymSpell d=4 was taking around ~2.7 GB on my setup). Sub-millisecond speed: Runs about ~100x faster than brute-force Levenshtein comparison. Good with insertions and swaps: It handles typos with extra letters or swapped characters really well. I wanted to keep this post short, but I put all the be
