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Re:What Is a Vector Database by dmezzetti on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:29AM (#35827881)
Faiss has long discussed strategies for scaling to 1B - 1T records here - https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Indexing-1G-v...

There are plenty of options available to run your own local vector database, txtai is one of them. Ultimately depends if you have a sizable development team or not. But saying it is impossible is a step too far.

Re:What Is a Vector Database by hiyou102 on Friday May 05, 2023 @02:26PM (#35833264)
Even in that article with much smaller vectors than what GPT puts out (1536 dimensions) QPS drops below 100 if recall@1 is more than 0.4. That's to say nothing of cost of regenerating this index using incremental updates. I don't get why people on HN are so adamant on the idea that no one needs scale beyond 1 machine ever.
Re:What Is a Vector Database by dmezzetti on Friday May 05, 2023 @05:07PM (#35835174)
The comment said that having an instance with 1B+ vectors yourself is impossible. Clearly that's not the case.