[mindvirus]

Congrats to them!

What have your experiences with vector databases been? I've been using https://weaviate.io/ which works great, but just for little tech demos, so I'm not really sure how to compare one versus another or even what to look for really.

[danielbln]

We're using Postgres with the pg_vector extension for basically all of our projects. We know and love Postgres, it has a big track record, the extension is supported on all major managed cloud offerings, no new tooling needed, pg_vector supports HNSW indices for performance as well.

Once in a whole supabase slips into a project, but that's basically just Postgres with some bells and whistles on top.

I got nothing bad to say about Pinecone, We aviate, Chroma etc. but when it comes to dbs, I like to go with the devil I know.

[andre-z]

You should use whatever works best for you unless you face some limitations. The issue is that vector databases are not databases but search engines. It is ACID vs BASE. A few thoughts on this https://qdrant.tech/articles/dedicated-service/

[Fendyfd]

There are multiple vectordb available in the market, open source ones include Milvus, Qdrant, Weaviate etc. Cloud services include Zilliz Cloud (managed milvus), Qdrant Cloud, Weaviate Cloud etc. Try using a benchmark tool to evaluate them. Here is an open-source option for your reference: VectorDBBench (https://github.com/zilliztech/VectorDBBench)

[tw1984]

why would anyone use a "benchmark" tool from a vendor (zilliz here) to test the performance of its competitors?

[bootsmann]

I think one of the big advantages of qdrant is how easy it is to do a poc because it allows you to have an “in-memory” version of the database similar to sqlite. One of the big competitors, Milvus, comes with a fairly intricate docker-compose you have to spin up to try it.

[avereveard]

Well sqlite now has a vector extension so it's super convenient for testing. Between that and fts5 sqlite can stand in for any advanced search service as far as poc are concerned.

[J_Shelby_J]

Only for python!

[swalsh]

I've been using Qdrant. Can't speak highly enough of the core functionality. It's fast, good accuracy, easy to use etc.

I think there are some things I wish were easier, for example finding and updating points, and the UI could be better.