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What is the Dynamic index in Weaviate?

The Dynamic index is a hybrid strategy that starts a collection off using a Flat index and automatically switches to an HNSW index once the collection's object count crosses a configured threshold, giving small collections the low overhead of Flat while still scaling gracefully into HNSW's better performance at larger sizes.

vector_index_config=Configure.VectorIndex.dynamic(
    threshold=10000
)

This is especially useful for multi-tenant collections where individual tenants' data sizes vary widely and unpredictably: a small tenant automatically stays on cheap, simple Flat indexing, while a tenant that grows large automatically gets upgraded to HNSW, without an application needing to manually decide or migrate index types itself as usage patterns change over time.

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The Dynamic index automatically switches from: HNSW to Flat as data grows larger

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Flat to HNSW once a configured object-count threshold is crossed

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One embedding model to another automatically

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The Dynamic index is especially useful for: Applications that never need vector search at all

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Collections that will never receive any data

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Multi-tenant collections where individual tenant data sizes vary widely and unpredictably

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