News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on What Is a Vector Database. Parent comment

Re:What Is a Vector Database by heipei on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:22AM (#35827816)
For the same reason you have money going to various SQL-as-a-service companies that run Postgres / MySQL for you as a service: Some folks would rather eat the network latency, give up control of their data and complicate their compliance process than operating a database themselves.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What Is a Vector Database by pantulis on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:47AM (#35828017)
The difference with SQL is that it's not like storing vector embeddings outside your perimeter suppose a big compliance issue --at least in security or legal terms. Giving up control of their data and network latency are legit concerns, that's for sure.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What Is a Vector Database by gk1 on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:30AM (#35829705)
(I'm from Pinecone)

While Pinecone isn't available as a self-hosted option (see many comments with alternatives), we do offer the option of running Pinecone for you on a managed VPC, and we do have SOC2 compliance, and we do pass enterprise-level security reviews regularly. Whether that's sufficient is up to you of course.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What Is a Vector Database by hiyou102 on Friday May 05, 2023 @02:11PM (#35833059)
A lot of people use some form of managed services if they are in the cloud. Be it S3 or Dynamo DB. Generally cheaper than running things yourself and operationally much easier too.
[ Parent | on HN ]