#vector-databases on Hacker News

5 stories tagged vector-databases, newest first.

Screenshot of claix.dev: We Built an Alternative to Vector RAG for AI Agent Memory

We Built an Alternative to Vector RAG for AI Agent Memory (claix.dev)

3 points by gael_dev 19 days ago | 2 comments

A Claix blog post arguing that agentic retrieval, where agents invoke and repeat retrieval as a tool, is replacing fixed vector RAG pipelines for document agents.

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Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

331 points by tmaly 9 months ago | 133 comments

Ask HN thread asking how people implement retrieval-augmented generation locally with minimal dependencies for code or complex documents.

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Screenshot of alex-jacobs.com: The Case Against PGVector

The Case Against PGVector (alex-jacobs.com)

353 points by tacoooooooo 11 months ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Alex Jacobs arguing about the operational problems of running pgvector for vector search in production that typical posts omit.

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Screenshot of timescale.com: Vector databases are the wrong abstraction

Vector databases are the wrong abstraction (timescale.com)

432 points by jascha_eng 2 years ago | 81 comments

Timescale blog post arguing that standalone vector databases are the wrong abstraction and embeddings should be managed like database indexes, promoting pgai Vectorizer.

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