Date: December 25, 2024 Version: 2.1 (Comprehensive Edition) Benchmark Duration: 13.5 hours (812 minutes) Total Model Runs: 52 (13 models × 4 benchmark combinations)
This benchmark evaluates 12 embedding model configurations across 2 backends for code search tasks on real-world codebases. We measure retrieval quality (nDCG@10, MRR, Hit@K) with separate Code vs Documentation analysis, plus operational efficiency (throughput, memory, load time).
| Finding | Impact |
|---|---|
| EmbeddingGemma-300M dominates | Best overall quality (0.891 nDCG) AND fastest (33+ emb/sec) |
| Quantization preserves quality | Q8 = F16 = Q4K quality, but Q8 uses 41% less RAM |
| Metal GPU >> ONNX CPU | 5.8x faster inference on Apple Silicon |
| Doc queries easier than Code | Most models score 10-18% higher on documentation |
| Simple LINE chunking wins | Beat structure-aware SEMANTIC chunking on all models |
Overall nDCG: 0.891 (best)
Code nDCG: 0.879 (best)
Doc nDCG: 0.970 (2nd best)
Throughput: 33.5 embeddings/second
Peak Memory: 1,590 MB (lowest among top models)
Load Time: 1.3 seconds
Dimensions: 768
| Codebase | Language | Files | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ripgrep | Rust | 139 | 60,688 | Fast grep alternative, complex CLI tool |
| FastAPI | Python | 200+ | 50,000+ | Modern web framework with extensive docs |
| Metric | ripgrep | FastAPI | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Queries | 54 | 55 | 109 |
| Code Queries | 41 | 39 | 80 |
| Doc Queries | 13 | 16* | 29 |
| Difficulty: Simple | 9 | 12 | 21 |
| Difficulty: Medium | 32 | 28 | 60 |
| Difficulty: Hard | 13 | 15 | 28 |
*15 FastAPI doc queries skipped due to path resolution issues
| Strategy | Description | ripgrep Chunks | FastAPI Chunks |
|---|---|---|---|
| LINE | 40-line chunks, 25% overlap | 1,995 | 8,333 |
| SEMANTIC | Structure-aware with context | 2,677 | 17,129 |
FastEmbed (ONNX Runtime / CPU):
| Model | Dimensions | Quantized |
|---|---|---|
| BGE-small-en-v1.5 | 384 | No |
| BGE-base-en-v1.5 | 768 | No |
| Jina-embeddings-v2-base-code | 768 | No |
| Nomic-embed-text-v1.5 | 768 | No |
| Snowflake-arctic-embed-m | 768 | No |
MistralRS (Candle / Metal GPU):
| Model | Dimensions | Variants Tested |
|---|---|---|
| EmbeddingGemma-300M | 768 | F16, Q8, Q4K |
| Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B | 1024 | F16, Q8, Q4K |
| Qwen3-Embedding-4B | 2560 | Q4K only |
┌──────┬──────────────┬────────────────────┬───────┬────────────────┬────────────────┬────────────────┬──────────┬─────────┬────────┐
│ Rank │ Backend │ Model │ Dims │ OVERALL │ CODE Queries │ DOC Queries │ Thru/s │ RAM(MB) │ Load(s)│
│ │ │ │ │ File Ans │ File Ans │ File Ans │ │ │ │
├──────┼──────────────┼────────────────────┼───────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼────────┤
│ 1 │ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-None │ 768 │ 0.791 0.891 │ 0.771 0.879 │ 0.648 0.970 │ 33.6 │ 2,719 │ 2.5 │
│ 1 │ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-Q8 │ 768 │ 0.791 0.891 │ 0.771 0.879 │ 0.648 0.970 │ 33.5 │ 1,590 │ 1.3 │
│ 1 │ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-Q4k │ 768 │ 0.791 0.891 │ 0.771 0.879 │ 0.648 0.970 │ 32.9 │ 2,197 │ 1.2 │
│ 4 │ ONNX/CPU │ BGE-base │ 768 │ 0.674 0.876 │ 0.651 0.871 │ 0.651 0.961 │ 5.8 │ 2,855 │ 0.3 │
│ 5 │ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-4B-Q4k │ 2560 │ 0.677 0.857 │ 0.658 0.853 │ 0.606 0.830 │ 2.0 │ 4,012 │ 54.7 │
│ 6 │ ONNX/CPU │ BGE-small │ 384 │ 0.669 0.846 │ 0.653 0.835 │ 0.528 0.970 │ 15.8 │ 2,278 │ 0.1 │
│ 7 │ ONNX/CPU │ Snowflake-M │ 768 │ 0.662 0.834 │ 0.648 0.828 │ 0.447 0.947 │ 6.1 │ 3,771 │ 0.3 │
│ 8 │ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-Q4k │ 1024 │ 0.672 0.833 │ 0.665 0.828 │ 0.440 0.829 │ 11.4 │ 1,798 │ 5.8 │
│ 9 │ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-None │ 1024 │ 0.681 0.824 │ 0.671 0.815 │ 0.440 0.833 │ 12.7 │ 2,240 │ 1.8 │
│ 10 │ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-Q8 │ 1024 │ 0.679 0.823 │ 0.669 0.814 │ 0.440 0.832 │ 12.5 │ 2,164 │ 0.7 │
│ 11 │ ONNX/CPU │ Jina-v2-code │ 768 │ 0.687 0.822 │ 0.685 0.817 │ 0.518 0.915 │ 4.6 │ 3,087 │ 0.4 │
│ 12 │ ONNX/CPU │ Nomic-v1.5 │ 768 │ 0.626 0.813 │ 0.611 0.798 │ 0.466 0.977 │ 4.6 │ 6,423 │ 0.4 │
└──────┴──────────────┴────────────────────┴───────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────┴─────────┴────────┘
Legend:
- File: File-level nDCG@10 (did we find the right file?)
- Ans: Answer-level nDCG@10 (did we find the right code chunk?)
- Thru/s: Embeddings per second
- RAM: Peak memory usage in MB
- Load: Model load time in seconds
Configuration: 1,995 chunks | 54 queries (41 Code, 13 Doc)
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│ Backend │ Model │ OVERALL │ CODE │ DOC │ Thru/s │
│ │ │ File Ans │ File Ans │ File Ans │ │
├──────────────┼────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┤
│ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-None │ 0.861 0.939 │ 0.817 0.934 │ 1.000 0.958 │ 24.6 │
│ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-Q8 │ 0.861 0.939 │ 0.817 0.934 │ 1.000 0.958 │ 24.1 │
│ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-Q4k │ 0.861 0.939 │ 0.817 0.934 │ 1.000 0.958 │ 22.3 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ BGE-base │ 0.767 0.921 │ 0.705 0.925 │ 0.962 0.909 │ 5.7 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-Q4k │ 0.780 0.919 │ 0.761 0.915 │ 0.838 0.932 │ 8.8 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-None │ 0.771 0.919 │ 0.750 0.907 │ 0.840 0.956 │ 9.6 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-4B-Q4k │ 0.757 0.918 │ 0.713 0.919 │ 0.895 0.913 │ 1.4 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-Q8 │ 0.771 0.914 │ 0.750 0.901 │ 0.840 0.955 │ 9.7 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ BGE-small │ 0.767 0.912 │ 0.717 0.899 │ 0.923 0.951 │ 14.2 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Snowflake-M │ 0.757 0.900 │ 0.712 0.906 │ 0.899 0.882 │ 5.6 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Nomic-v1.5 │ 0.815 0.898 │ 0.756 0.889 │ 1.000 0.928 │ 4.5 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Jina-v2-code │ 0.759 0.858 │ 0.772 0.852 │ 0.717 0.875 │ 4.3 │
└──────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────┘
Observations:
- EmbeddingGemma achieves 0.939 Answer nDCG - exceptional performance
- All quantization levels (F16/Q8/Q4K) produce identical quality
- Doc queries achieve perfect 1.000 File nDCG with EmbeddingGemma
Configuration: 2,677 chunks | 54 queries (41 Code, 13 Doc)
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│ Backend │ Model │ OVERALL │ CODE │ DOC │ Thru/s │
├──────────────┼────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┤
│ ONNX/CPU │ BGE-base │ 0.792 0.880 │ 0.751 0.862 │ 0.922 0.936 │ 5.5 │
│ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-None │ 0.843 0.877 │ 0.811 0.853 │ 0.943 0.953 │ 35.6 │
│ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-Q8 │ 0.843 0.877 │ 0.811 0.853 │ 0.943 0.953 │ 35.8 │
│ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-Q4k │ 0.843 0.877 │ 0.811 0.853 │ 0.943 0.953 │ 35.7 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Nomic-v1.5 │ 0.789 0.871 │ 0.765 0.836 │ 0.864 0.981 │ 4.3 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ BGE-small │ 0.767 0.862 │ 0.730 0.841 │ 0.886 0.928 │ 13.9 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-Q4k │ 0.800 0.861 │ 0.761 0.841 │ 0.922 0.925 │ 12.7 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-4B-Q4k │ 0.734 0.854 │ 0.683 0.833 │ 0.894 0.921 │ 2.1 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-Q8 │ 0.765 0.852 │ 0.716 0.827 │ 0.922 0.930 │ 13.9 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-None │ 0.769 0.851 │ 0.721 0.826 │ 0.922 0.931 │ 15.0 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Snowflake-M │ 0.769 0.848 │ 0.731 0.829 │ 0.889 0.908 │ 5.7 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Jina-v2-code │ 0.801 0.789 │ 0.763 0.782 │ 0.923 0.809 │ 4.4 │
└──────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────┘
Observations:
- SEMANTIC chunking reduces answer nDCG by 6-7% compared to LINE
- Throughput increases with SEMANTIC (35.8/s vs 24.1/s) due to smaller chunks
- Nomic achieves highest Doc score (0.981) but poor Code score (0.836)
Configuration: 8,333 chunks | 55 queries (39 Code, 1 Doc*)
*14 Doc queries skipped due to path issues
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│ Backend │ Model │ OVERALL │ CODE │ DOC │ Thru/s │
├──────────────┼────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┤
│ ONNX/CPU │ BGE-base │ 0.519 0.886 │ 0.522 0.883 │ 0.387 1.000 │ 5.4 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Jina-v2-code │ 0.632 0.858 │ 0.649 0.855 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 4.4 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-4B-Q4k │ 0.608 0.841 │ 0.616 0.837 │ 0.301 1.000 │ 1.4 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ BGE-small │ 0.573 0.827 │ 0.588 0.823 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 16.5 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-Q4k │ 0.574 0.811 │ 0.589 0.806 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 7.7 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Snowflake-M │ 0.563 0.809 │ 0.578 0.804 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 6.3 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-Q8 │ 0.616 0.799 │ 0.632 0.794 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 8.3 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-None │ 0.617 0.797 │ 0.632 0.792 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 8.3 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Nomic-v1.5 │ 0.429 0.752 │ 0.440 0.745 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 4.7 │
└──────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────┘
Note: EmbeddingGemma missing from this benchmark due to earlier run interruption.
Configuration: 17,129 chunks | 55 queries (39 Code, 1 Doc*)
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│ Backend │ Model │ OVERALL │ CODE │ DOC │ Thru/s │
├──────────────┼────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┤
│ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-None │ 0.668 0.855 │ 0.685 0.851 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 40.5 │
│ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-Q8 │ 0.668 0.855 │ 0.685 0.851 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 40.6 │
│ Candle/Metal │ EmbedGemma-Q4k │ 0.668 0.855 │ 0.685 0.851 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 40.6 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ BGE-base │ 0.618 0.817 │ 0.625 0.812 │ 0.333 1.000 │ 6.6 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-4B-Q4k │ 0.611 0.814 │ 0.618 0.823 │ 0.333 0.484 │ 3.1 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Jina-v2-code │ 0.555 0.785 │ 0.558 0.780 │ 0.431 0.977 │ 5.0 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ BGE-small │ 0.570 0.784 │ 0.577 0.778 │ 0.301 1.000 │ 18.6 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Snowflake-M │ 0.559 0.779 │ 0.573 0.773 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 6.6 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-Q4k │ 0.535 0.743 │ 0.549 0.750 │ 0.000 0.458 │ 16.5 │
│ ONNX/CPU │ Nomic-v1.5 │ 0.472 0.730 │ 0.484 0.723 │ 0.000 1.000 │ 5.1 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-None │ 0.567 0.729 │ 0.581 0.736 │ 0.000 0.444 │ 18.0 │
│ Candle/Metal │ Qwen3-0.6B-Q8 │ 0.564 0.728 │ 0.578 0.735 │ 0.000 0.444 │ 17.9 │
└──────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────┘
Observations:
- Largest corpus (17K chunks) shows highest throughput variance
- EmbeddingGemma maintains 40+ emb/sec even with large corpus
- Qwen3-0.6B struggles with Doc queries on this corpus (0.444-0.458)
| Model | Code nDCG | Doc nDCG | Gap | Better At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nomic-v1.5 | 0.798 | 0.977 | -17.9% | Documentation |
| BGE-small | 0.835 | 0.970 | -13.5% | Documentation |
| Snowflake-M | 0.828 | 0.947 | -11.9% | Documentation |
| Jina-v2-code | 0.817 | 0.915 | -9.8% | Documentation |
| EmbedGemma | 0.879 | 0.970 | -9.1% | Documentation |
| BGE-base | 0.871 | 0.961 | -9.0% | Documentation |
| Qwen3-0.6B-Q8 | 0.814 | 0.832 | -1.8% | Balanced |
| Qwen3-0.6B-None | 0.815 | 0.833 | -1.8% | Balanced |
| Qwen3-0.6B-Q4k | 0.828 | 0.829 | -0.1% | Balanced |
| Qwen3-4B-Q4k | 0.853 | 0.830 | +2.3% | Code |
- Most models favor documentation - Natural language descriptions are easier to embed than code syntax
- Qwen3 models are most balanced - Nearly equal performance on code and docs
- Jina-v2-code underperforms on code - Despite being "code-specialized", scores 0.817 vs EmbedGemma's 0.879
- EmbedGemma excels at both - Best code score (0.879) with excellent doc score (0.970)
| Codebase | Metric | LINE Wins | SEMANTIC Wins | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ripgrep | Answer nDCG | 12/12 | 0/12 | LINE dominates |
| FastAPI | Answer nDCG | 9/9 | 0/9 | LINE dominates |
| Total | 21/21 | 0/21 | LINE wins 100% |
| Factor | Impact |
|---|---|
| Context prefix overhead | SEMANTIC adds [file: path] metadata that consumes embedding capacity |
| Chunk fragmentation | SEMANTIC creates 2x more chunks with smaller content per chunk |
| Semantic dilution | Metadata tokens may confuse the embedding model's semantic focus |
| Overlap benefit | LINE's 25% overlap provides natural context without explicit prefixes |
Use LINE chunking for embedding-based retrieval. Reserve SEMANTIC for:
- LLM context assembly (after retrieval)
- Symbol-aware navigation
- Code understanding tasks requiring structure
| Quantization | Answer nDCG | Code nDCG | Doc nDCG | Throughput | Peak RAM | Quality Loss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F16 (None) | 0.891 | 0.879 | 0.970 | 33.6/s | 2,719 MB | baseline |
| Q8 | 0.891 | 0.879 | 0.970 | 33.5/s | 1,590 MB | 0% |
| Q4K | 0.891 | 0.879 | 0.970 | 32.9/s | 2,197 MB | 0% |
Verdict: Q8 provides identical quality with 41% less memory.
| Quantization | Answer nDCG | Code nDCG | Doc nDCG | Throughput | Peak RAM | Quality Loss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F16 (None) | 0.824 | 0.815 | 0.833 | 12.7/s | 2,240 MB | baseline |
| Q8 | 0.823 | 0.814 | 0.832 | 12.5/s | 2,164 MB | -0.1% |
| Q4K | 0.833 | 0.828 | 0.829 | 11.4/s | 1,798 MB | +1.1% |
Surprise: Q4K actually improves quality for Qwen3-0.6B while reducing memory.
| Rank | Model | Peak RAM | Quality (nDCG) | RAM per nDCG Point |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | EmbedGemma-Q8 | 1,590 MB | 0.891 | 1,785 MB |
| 🥈 | Qwen3-0.6B-Q4k | 1,798 MB | 0.833 | 2,159 MB |
| 🥉 | Qwen3-0.6B-Q8 | 2,164 MB | 0.823 | 2,630 MB |
| 4 | EmbedGemma-Q4k | 2,197 MB | 0.891 | 2,466 MB |
| 5 | Qwen3-0.6B-None | 2,240 MB | 0.824 | 2,718 MB |
| 6 | BGE-small | 2,278 MB | 0.846 | 2,693 MB |
| 7 | EmbedGemma-None | 2,719 MB | 0.891 | 3,052 MB |
| 8 | BGE-base | 2,855 MB | 0.876 | 3,260 MB |
| 9 | Jina-v2-code | 3,087 MB | 0.822 | 3,756 MB |
| 10 | Snowflake-M | 3,771 MB | 0.834 | 4,521 MB |
| 11 | Qwen3-4B-Q4k | 4,012 MB | 0.857 | 4,682 MB |
| 12 | Nomic-v1.5 | 6,423 MB | 0.813 | 7,901 MB |
| Rank | Model | Throughput | Quality (nDCG) | Quality per 10 emb/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | EmbedGemma-None | 33.6/s | 0.891 | 0.265 |
| 🥈 | EmbedGemma-Q8 | 33.5/s | 0.891 | 0.266 |
| 🥉 | EmbedGemma-Q4k | 32.9/s | 0.891 | 0.271 |
| 4 | BGE-small | 15.8/s | 0.846 | 0.535 |
| 5 | Qwen3-0.6B-None | 12.7/s | 0.824 | 0.649 |
| 6 | Qwen3-0.6B-Q8 | 12.5/s | 0.823 | 0.658 |
| 7 | Qwen3-0.6B-Q4k | 11.4/s | 0.833 | 0.731 |
| 8 | Snowflake-M | 6.1/s | 0.834 | 1.367 |
| 9 | BGE-base | 5.8/s | 0.876 | 1.510 |
| 10 | Nomic-v1.5 | 4.6/s | 0.813 | 1.767 |
| 11 | Jina-v2-code | 4.6/s | 0.822 | 1.787 |
| 12 | Qwen3-4B-Q4k | 2.0/s | 0.857 | 4.285 |
| Metric | MistralRS (Metal GPU) | FastEmbed (ONNX/CPU) | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Throughput | 33.5/s | 15.8/s | Metal (2.1x) |
| Avg Throughput | 18.8/s | 7.4/s | Metal (2.5x) |
| Best Quality | 0.891 | 0.876 | Metal (+1.7%) |
| Lowest Memory | 1,590 MB | 2,278 MB | Metal (30% less) |
| Fastest Load | 0.7s | 0.1s | ONNX (7x) |
Verdict: Metal GPU provides significantly better performance. ONNX is viable for CPU-only environments.
| Model | Hit@1 | Hit@3 | Hit@5 | Hit@10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EmbedGemma (all) | 84.3% | 93.0% | 96.3% | 98.1% |
| BGE-base | 80.3% | 91.2% | 95.0% | 97.5% |
| BGE-small | 76.2% | 86.8% | 89.3% | 93.5% |
| Qwen3-4B-Q4k | 74.7% | 85.0% | 87.5% | 91.3% |
| Snowflake-M | 77.0% | 85.4% | 87.9% | 92.2% |
| Qwen3-0.6B-Q4k | 73.1% | 83.0% | 86.8% | 90.2% |
| Jina-v2-code | 70.3% | 81.3% | 84.5% | 88.7% |
| Nomic-v1.5 | 73.1% | 81.8% | 84.3% | 88.5% |
- Hit@1 = 84.3% means EmbeddingGemma finds the correct answer in the top result 84% of the time
- Hit@5 = 96.3% means correct answer is in top 5 results 96% of the time
- For practical use, showing top-5 results captures nearly all correct answers
| Use Case | Recommended Model | Configuration |
|---|---|---|
| Best Quality | EmbeddingGemma-300M | Q8, Metal |
| Best Speed | EmbeddingGemma-300M | Q8, Metal |
| Lowest Memory | EmbeddingGemma-300M | Q8, Metal |
| CPU Only | BGE-base-en-v1.5 | ONNX |
| Balanced Code/Doc | Qwen3-0.6B | Q4K, Metal |
| Documentation Focus | Nomic-v1.5 | ONNX |
# Recommended configuration
[[mistralrs]]
model = "embedding-gemma"
quantization = "q8"
device = "metal"
# Chunking: LINE strategy
code_lines = 40
doc_lines = 60
overlap = 0.25
# Expected performance:
# - Quality: 0.89 nDCG@10
# - Speed: 33+ embeddings/sec
# - Memory: ~1.6 GB peak
# - Dimensions: 768- Platform Specific: Results measured on Apple Silicon (M-series). CUDA results may differ.
- Languages Tested: Rust and Python only. Other languages may show different patterns.
- Query Types: Focused on code navigation and API lookup. Other query types not tested.
- FastAPI Doc Queries: 15/16 doc queries skipped due to file path issues.
- GPU Metrics: GPU utilization not measured (requires elevated permissions on macOS).
| Metric | Definition |
|---|---|
| nDCG@10 | Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain at rank 10. Measures ranking quality, accounting for position. Range: 0-1, higher is better. |
| MRR | Mean Reciprocal Rank. Average of 1/rank for first correct result. Range: 0-1, higher is better. |
| Hit@K | Percentage of queries with correct answer in top K results. |
| File nDCG | Did we find the correct file? Aggregates chunks to file level. |
| Answer nDCG | Did we find the correct code chunk? More granular than file-level. |
| Throughput | Embeddings generated per second during batch processing. |
| Peak RAM | Maximum process memory during embedding (includes model + buffers). |
EmbeddingGemma (Asymmetric):
Query: "task: search result | query: main entry point"
Document: "title: none | text: fn main() { ... }"
BGE (Symmetric with instruction):
Query: "Represent this sentence for searching: main entry point"
Document: "fn main() { ... }"
Full benchmark results available at:
results/20251225_014026/
├── ripgrep_line.json
├── ripgrep_semantic.json
├── fastapi_line.json
└── fastapi_semantic.json
Report generated by embedding-benchmark v0.1.0 Benchmark timestamp: 2024-12-25T01:40:26Z Total runtime: 812 minutes (13.5 hours)