Blog/Performance

Supabase Storage: major performance, security, and reliability updates thumbnail

5 Mar 2026

5 minute read

Supabase Storage: major performance, security, and reliability updates

Storage ships a rewritten object listing system, path traversal prevention, idempotent migrations, OpenTelemetry metrics, and fixes for the most common reliability issues.

When to use Read Replicas vs. bigger compute thumbnail

15 Jan 2026

19 minute read

When to use Read Replicas vs. bigger compute

A practical guide to diagnosing database slowdowns and choosing between vertical scaling and Read Replicas based on your workload, budget, and performance bottlenecks.

21 Feb 2024

18 minute read

Automating performance tests

Learn about our story to get to the automated performance testing.

13 Feb 2024

22 minute read

Matryoshka embeddings: faster OpenAI vector search using Adaptive Retrieval

Use Adaptive Retrieval to improve query performance with OpenAI's new embedding models

pgvector 0.6.0: 30x faster with parallel index builds thumbnail

30 Jan 2024

14 minute read

pgvector 0.6.0: 30x faster with parallel index builds

pgvector 0.6.0 brings a significant improvement: parallel index builds for HNSW. Building an HNSW index is now up to 30x faster for unlogged tables.

10 Oct 2023

9 minute read

pgvector vs Pinecone: cost and performance

Direct performance comparison between pgvector and Pinecone.

6 Sep 2023

11 minute read

pgvector v0.5.0: Faster semantic search with HNSW indexes

Increase performance in pgvector using HNSW indexes

3 Aug 2023

11 minute read

pgvector: Fewer dimensions are better

Increase performance in pgvector by using embedding vectors with fewer dimensions

13 Jul 2023

13 minute read

pgvector 0.4.0 performance

There's been a lot of talk about pgvector performance lately, so we took some datasets and pushed pgvector to the limits to find out its strengths and limitations.