gRPC-Driven Performance Improvements in Weaviate

Weaviate has integrated a gRPC API into its solutions, starting with the Python client library, resulting in significant speed improvements compared to previous REST + GraphQL solutions. The new gRPC-based data imports show significant reductions in time taken for both datasets tested. Query throughput is also significantly improved, with each query taking 40-70% less time to return results when using gRPC in comparison to REST + GraphQL. This results in a significant, over 2.6x, improvement in how many queries can be served.