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Vector Database
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Zvec: in-process vector database from Alibaba
Zvec is Alibaba's in-process vector database built on Proxima, their production search engine. No server to run — embed it directly in your app for billion-vector similarity search in milliseconds.
Vectors Are Over? Hashes as the Future of AI Search
Algolia's provocative post arguing that hash-based retrieval outperforms vector search for many real-world search use cases — a counterargument to the vector database hype of 2022. Grounds the comparison in production search quality metrics.
The Vector Database Index
Gradient Flow's landscape map of vector databases — published in 2022 when the category was forming, covering Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Chroma, Milvus, and others. A useful historical snapshot of the vector DB market at the moment it became strategically important.