# turbopuffer docs

> turbopuffer is a serverless vector and full-text search engine
> built from first principles on object storage: fast, 10x cheaper,
> and extremely scalable. This is the complete documentation for
> the turbopuffer API and platform.

- [Introduction](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/index.md): What turbopuffer is and how it works
- [Architecture](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/architecture.md): System design: object storage, caching, WAL, and query routing
- [Concepts](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/concepts.md): turbopuffer's concepts
- [Guarantees](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/guarantees.md): Guarantees of turbopuffer's architecture
- [Tradeoffs](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/tradeoffs.md): Tradeoffs of turbopuffer's architecture
- [Limits](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/limits.md): Current limits for turbopuffer.
- [Regions](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/regions.md): Available cloud regions and cross-region deployment options
- [Roadmap & Changelog](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/roadmap.md): Upcoming features and detailed changelog
- [Security](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/security.md): Compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA), encryption, and deployment options
- [Encryption](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/cmek.md): Customer-managed encryption key setup for GCP and AWS
- [Private Networking](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/private-networking.md): Configure private connections via AWS PrivateLink or GCP PSC
- [Audit Logs](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/audit-logs.md)
- [Backups](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/backups.md): Back up namespaces across turbopuffer regions
- [Performance](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/performance.md): Learn how to improve the performance of your application
- [Pinning](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/pinning.md): Reserved compute and disk for predictable cost and performance at sustained high QPS

## Guides

- [Quickstart](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/quickstart.md): Get started with the turbopuffer API using code examples
- [Vector Search](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/vector.md): Perform vector similarity search with filtering
- [Full-Text Search](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/fts.md): Learn how to use BM25 full-text search
- [Hybrid Search](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/hybrid.md): Combine vector and BM25 search with rank fusion
- [Testing](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/testing.md): Test with isolated per-test namespaces
- [Permissions](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/permissions.md): Manage document-level access and permissions

## API

- [Auth & Encoding](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/auth.md): Overview of the API
- [Write](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/write.md): Learn how to create, update, or delete documents
- [Query](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/query.md): Learn how to query documents
- [Namespace metadata](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/metadata.md): Learn how to get and update metadata about a namespace
- [Export](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/export.md): Learn how to fetch a list documents for export
- [Warm cache](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/warm-cache.md): Learn how to signal turbopuffer to prepare for low-latency requests
- [List namespaces](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/namespaces.md): Learn how to fetch a list namespaces
- [Delete namespace](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/delete-namespace.md): Learn how to delete a namespace
- [Recall](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/recall.md): Learn how to evaluate recall performance

## Optional

- [BYOC](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/byoc.md): Deploy turbopuffer on your own cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- [Deployment](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/byoc/deployment.md): Step-by-step BYOC deployment runlist
- [Configuration](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/byoc/configuration.md): Configure turbopuffer via Kubernetes ConfigMap and values
- [Control Plane](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/byoc/control-plane.md): Control plane agent for managing BYOC clusters
- [Common Operations](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/byoc/operations.md): Common manual operations for BYOC deployments
- [Requirements](https://turbopuffer.com/docs/byoc/requirements.md): Instance types and Kubernetes requirements for BYOC