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Re:Milvus Lite: The Lightweight Version of Milvus by gkapur on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:32PM (#40556260)
Not really. This is more like SQLite or DuckDB for vector databases (on disk.) Chroma is more like redis for vector databases (in memory.)

We have seen similar products in the olap space, as well, ie. Clickhouse local.

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Re:Milvus Lite: The Lightweight Version of Milvus by mhuffman on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:55PM (#40556425)
Doesn't DuckDB already do vector search?
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Re:Milvus Lite: The Lightweight Version of Milvus by Kydlaw on Sunday June 02, 2024 @03:09PM (#40556505)
They do have an extension for vector similarity search (https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/vss).

But Milvius might propose more features, as they have been in this specific space for longer.

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Re:Milvus Lite: The Lightweight Version of Milvus by valstu on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:06AM (#40560353)
Chroma used DuckDB at some point, might not be the case anymore though
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