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8.1.11 The rpd_vector_indexes Table

The rpd_vector_indexes table provides information about vector indexes created for different vector store or embedding tables.

The rpd_vector_indexes table has these columns:

  • TABLE_ID: the table ID.

  • COLUMN_ID: the column ID.

  • SPACE: Vector distance metric, which can be one of: DOT, EUCLIDEAN, and COSINE. Queries using the same distance metric are accelerated by the index.

  • ALGORITHM: vector indexing algorithm used, which is always HNSW as of MySQL 9.5.0.

  • TUNING_PARAMS: the parameters used for tuning the vector index.

  • ORDER: the order used for index creation: ACS or DESC.

  • SIZE_MB: the size of the index per-rapid-node, in MB.

  • USAGE_COUNT: the number of times the index has been used.

  • BUILD_START_TIME: index build start time.

  • BUILD_END_TIME: index build end time.

  • IS_USABLE: whether the index is usable.

The rpd_vector_indexes table is read-only.