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Re:What Is a Vector Database by gpderetta on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:46AM (#35828013)
Last time I had to deal with vector representation of documents was more than 10 years ago, so I'm a bit rusty, but billion vector scale sound relatively trivial.
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Re:What Is a Vector Database by esafak on Friday May 05, 2023 @01:52PM (#35832776)
With retrieval time in the milliseconds? The entries may be ads, or something else user facing. Your users are not going to sit around while you leisurely retrieve them.
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