Shah: Most vector databases become too slow or expensive at scale
Dhravya Shah · ⚡️ OpenClaw's Memory Sucks and the fix is simple — Dhravya Shah, Supermemory · Mar 9, 2026 · at 2:25
Dhravya Shah, founder of Supermemory, explains the infrastructure challenges and cost bottlenecks of naive vector retrieval systems when scaling AI memory.
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“So, so, better databases, like, at that time, and even now, except a few, like, TurboPuffer and Chroma, Were not really scalable for the scale I was getting to where they were either getting too slow or too expensive to run.”
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