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Re:Investing in new vector database development vs enhancing... by simonw on Saturday November 25, 2023 @06:38PM (#38417844)
I use Elasticsearch along with PostgreSQL, but I don't think of Elasticsearch as a database. It's an external index that I denormalize some of my data into.
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Re:Investing in new vector database development vs enhancing... by tyre on Sunday November 26, 2023 @12:11AM (#38419335)
ES is a good parallel to a vector database.

run a search against ES => hydrate records from postgres

run a search against a vector database => hydrate LLM context from documents

Neither is a primary canonical datastore. Postgres is for ES and S3 is for documents.

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