vector database

“A vector database is the infrastructure that, that supports that long-term memory, right?”

“Vector databases are primarily about unstructured data. It's actually taking data that had no database that knew about it and loading it in for the very first time. Most applications of this stuff is not about taking data that's already in your relational data…”

“People, there's this, like, you know, big question about, oh, are vector databases gonna replace classic databases? Are these competitive in some way? And I think it's just kind of a dumb question.”

“I don't actually like the term vector database that much. I think it's sort of narrow. I think the job to be done is information retrieval more broadly, and vector search happens to be a useful tool in our toolbox to doing information retrieval.”

“And we think that both certainly transactional has to be the case because it is a online database. It's gonna sit in the loop of applications. Again, you've already seen demos of this happening tonight. But also to make this technology useful for developers, y…”

“We're not building our own vector database, but we have a rich set of integrations with, you know like 12 to like 20 different vector databases out there these days.”

“All these products are maturing and also differentiating, right? So it is becoming more and more of an effort, to be honest, to really manage this.”

“And reg was the first unique use case, if you will, that emerged around the ecosystem of vector databases.”

“The vector embedding is just a data type. So it's just an array of floating point numbers. I mean, you can store that in an old Oracle database, right? So, but the thing where it becomes interesting is the index.”

“Each company will need to embed a different formula for defining vectors, For the content or the recommendations that you need to make that will have many different components that will be both qualitative and quantitative.”

“In the initial paper, we used a vector database or a face. So the words vector database didn't exist at the time. But so face was the first vector database.”