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baobob | 3 years ago

Confused by their claim to be the 'first' vector database. These things have been around forever? For example FLANN (not a DB server, but example lib) is from 2009

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opisthenar84|3 years ago

I think the difference is in the layer of abstraction i.e. FLANN is just the underlying search functionality whereas vector databases are fully managed solutions. Even so, Weaviate came out in 2018, so saying that they are the "first" vector database is just flat out wrong since Pinecone was founded in 2019.

zcw100|3 years ago

Same difference as ElasticSearch and Lucene.

re: difference in layer of abstraction.

gk1|3 years ago

Weaviate calling themselves a vector database is a fairly new thing.