Vector stores answer what is similar. Graph databases answer what is connected. You query
one for candidates and traverse the other for context, and the seam between them is
operational overhead, consistency risk, and a conceptual mismatch.
SERAPH removes the seam. Content is not assigned to a taxonomy; each item lands adjacent
to what it resembles, and the shape of the store emerges from the content itself.
Applications can still declare exact relationships, held as an overlay that does not
distort the geometry beneath. Most systems force a choice between emergent
similarity and declared structure. SERAPH keeps both in one store with a clear
boundary between them.
Queries compose a similarity walk, a lineage walk over how content arrived, and a walk
over declared relations, in one continuous expression. The same store and the same query
return the same result, in the same order, with the same scoring, every time.
NameSemantic Retrieval Architecture via Probabilistic Hashing
StoreA single fileTransferable, and verifiable by the recipient with no other system
IntegrityWatermark chainPer-record Ed25519 signing in Commercial and Enterprise, bound to a key the customer alone holds
ModalityEncoder agnosticText, images, audio, code, scientific and behavioral data
RuntimeNo external servicesNo database server, no separate vector index, no network calls
CompartmentsEnterprise tierBell-LaPadula enforcement, FIPS signing, classification markings folded into the chain, and an audit that verifies integrity without exposing content
ProtectionProvisional patent filedMethod preprint published and publicly citable