Talon

Core Features & Engine Capabilities

Dive deep into how Talon reshapes your AI data stack with 8+1 engines. From SQL transactions to native AI memory—full-stack capabilities, unified interface.

database

SQL & Transaction Engine

ACID · ANSI SQL Subset
table_chart

DDL / DML Support

CREATE/ALTER/DROP TABLE, indexes, views, CTE, window functions. INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/UPSERT fully covered.

CREATE TABLE users (id INT PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, score REAL);
join_inner

Complex JOINs

INNER/LEFT/RIGHT/CROSS JOIN, subqueries, GROUP BY / HAVING / ORDER BY / LIMIT.

  • • Inner Join
  • • Left/Right Join
  • • Cross Join
lock

ACID Transactions

WriteBatch atomic commit, WAL crash recovery. 1M rows PK query P95 < 0.02ms.

COMMIT ROLLBACK
manage_search

Vector & Full-Text Search

Unified Indexing

Hybrid Search

BM25 full-text + HNSW vector search with RRF fusion ranking. Pure Rust, zero JVM dependency.

Vector

HNSW Indexing
Cosine / L2 / Dot Product

Full-Text

BM25 Scoring
Tokenization & Stemming

HNSW Vector Index

Custom persistent HNSW, 100K vectors KNN P95 <10ms

<10ms
KNN P95

SQ8 Quantization

Scalar quantization for reduced memory, cosine/L2/dot distances

3
Distance Metrics
psychology

AI-Native Capabilities

Agent Ready
forum

Session & LLM Config

Session CRUD with TTL, tags, archive. Configure LLM Providers (OpenAI/DeepSeek/Ollama) for auto-summarize and auto-embed.

LLM Provider ConfigAuto-Expiry
memory

Auto-Embed Memory

Auto-generate embeddings via configured provider. Hybrid Recall Pipeline: BM25+Vec dual-write, temporal decay, graph expansion, LLM rerank.

Auto-EmbedSemantic
data_usage

Smart Context & Token Count

Smart context window with auto-summarize. Precise BPE token counting (tiktoken). Execution trace and RAG doc versioning.

Smart: Auto-Summarize / Compact

speed Performance Benchmarks

Operation Metric Value
KV GET Throughput 625K ops/s
SQL INSERT Write Rate 165K rows/s
Vector KNN P95 Latency <10ms
MQ Publish Throughput 1.6M msg/s
TS Write Write Rate 353K pts/s

schema Unified Storage Architecture

SQL
KV
VECTOR
TS
MQ
FTS
GEO
GRAPH
LSM-TREE
fjall LSM-Tree · Shared Storage Layer
MemTable
WAL
SSTables

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