Qdrant: Vector Database for the next generation of AI applications

Re:Qdrant: Vector Database for the next generation of AI app... by here4U on Saturday May 06, 2023 @10:34PM (#35847347)

Are vector databases (mostly) commodities ? Do they have a winner takes all property (Pinecone seems more popular at the moment?

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Re:Qdrant: Vector Database for the next generation of AI app... by andre-z on Sunday May 07, 2023 @12:44AM (#35848009)

But is isn’t open source.

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Re:Qdrant: Vector Database for the next generation of AI app... by chaxor on Sunday May 07, 2023 @02:32AM (#35848480)

Everytime I see pinecone I'm immediately put off by it since it's so heavily focused on "use the cloud" and "make an account". I don't want another account, I don't want to have to be connected to the internet, and I don't even really want multiple files to be generated on disk.

Simple is better and offline is better, which is why SQLite and DuckDB reign supreme.

So, no Pinecone is not a very good DB from what I can tell.

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Re:Qdrant: Vector Database for the next generation of AI app... by williamstein on Sunday May 07, 2023 @06:00PM (#35856033)

I agree -- I listened to a 2022 podcast interview with the cofounder of Pinecone and he seems very dismissive of what open source can bring to vector database. I found that annoying and off putting. The open source vector database ecosystem is really impressive right now!

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