[llogiq]

I totally agree that latency of this solution leaves a lot of room to improvement. But that's totally besides the point of the article, which is that people can get a no-cost semantic search for their personal website using those services. They can also use other solutions, of course.

Also I'm experimenting in further integrating things to reduce latency and most likely will publish another article within the month. Stay tuned.

Finally I somewhat agree that many of the players in the vector DB space try to push their cloud offerings. Which is fine, how else should they make money? And if latency matters that much to you, Qdrant offers custom deployments, too. I believe running Qdrant locally will handily beat your LanceDB solution perf-wise unless you're talking about less than 100k entries. We have both docker containers and release binaries for all major OSes, why not give it a try?