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title: "Best practices"
slug: "dev-vector-search-best-practices-index"
updated: 2026-10-28T02:14:59Z
published: 2026-10-28T02:14:59Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/dev-vector-search-best-practices-index"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vastdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Best practices

This section will recommend designs and starting values for vector-indexed tables and searches: what to choose for a given workload, and how to size for it. Recommendations are a starting point, based on benchmarks and deployments. Always measure with your own data before you rely on them.

## What this section will contain

- **Search settings by workload:** starting values for the probe settings for RAG, recommendation, near-duplicate detection and filtered multi-tenant search.
- **Choosing quantization:** which quantization pair to start with for a given recall target and table size.
- **Sizing and throughput:** how queries per second and latency scale with CNodes and concurrency.
- **Multi-tenant designs:** one table with a tenant filter or one table per tenant, and when each fits.

Each page will say which VAST Cluster version and test setup its recommendations come from.

## Where to find how it works

The rest of the VAST Vector Search docs explain how each feature works, what each setting does and how to measure the result: [search session settings](/develop/docs/dev-vector-search-reference-configuration), [quantization](/develop/docs/dev-vector-search-guides-quantization), [design a vector table](/develop/docs/dev-vector-search-guides-table-design), [filters](/develop/docs/dev-vector-search-guides-filters), [measure recall and latency](/develop/docs/dev-vector-search-guides-developer-observability), [performance and sizing](/develop/docs/dev-vector-search-operations-performance). Best-practices pages link to those pages rather than repeat them.

## Status

This section is being written. Until its pages are published, start with the pages above, and ask your VAST account team for guidance on your workload.