vector database

also referred to as: vector databases

7 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Apr 24, 2024 by Jason Liu · across every show →

Everything said about vector database, oldest first

Apr 24, 2024 positive
Insight
Liu: Rank and retrieve tool definitions instead of passing dozens to LLMs
“If you're running into issues where you have, like, 20 or 50 or 60 function calls, I think you're much better having those specifications saved in a vector database, and then have them be retrieved. So if there are 30 tools, like, you should basically be, like…”
Jason Liu Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 16:51 High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
Apr 19, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Bergum: The standalone vector database infrastructure category is dying
“I'm not saying that the companies are dying, right? I'm just saying that the separate infrastructure category is dying, right? Because you have vector search capabilities in almost any DB technology nowadays, right?”
Jo Kristian Bergum Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 4:10 The Rise and Fall of the Vector DB category: Jo Kristian Bergum (ex-Chief Scientist, Vespa)
May 21, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Alberti: Cognition built its own in-house vector database
“This culture of like building everything in-house. It's also kind of funny, like we, there's like a rack component to this. And I've been actually, I personally advocate, I can just like use a vector database and make life easy. But then there's a really stron…”
Silas Alberti May 21, 2025 ▶ 10:46 DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
Mar 20, 2026 negative
Insight
Singleton: Dreamer replaced Vector DB RAG for agent memory due to complexity
“Very early on, we were putting lots of facts into a vector database and doing embeddings and pulling them back out using, you know, reverse look of embeddings. Rag that actually worked, but turned out to be much more complexity than was actually required. So, …”
David Singleton Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 52:07 Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
Apr 18, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Swix: Standalone Vector Databases Are Over as a Category
“Everyone has vector indexes now, but like, I think it's fair to say vector databases as a standalone category are over.”
Shawn Wang Apr 18, 2026 ▶ 4:53 ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
Apr 18, 2026 bearish
Insight
Eifrem: Good Enough Vector Features in Existing Databases Suffice
“Between everyone else adding it as a feature there, like the good enough ends up being good enough for most situations.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 18, 2026 ▶ 6:15 ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
Jun 24, 2026 negative
Opinion
Xin: Vector databases should never have been a separate category
“Vector database should have never been a separate category.”
Reynold Xin Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 52:32 The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
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