The database also has a flavor of P ostgreSQL. Last year at Build, Microsoft had introduced vector search to Cosmos DB, building on the company’s Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore service.

But since each vector is a high-dimensional float array, performing brute-force similarity comparisons across a large dataset can become prohibitively expensive, which is where vector indexing comes ...

DataStax is one of the leading contributors to the open-source Apache Cassandra database, with Astra DB serving as a commercially supported cloud Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering.

These include updates to its Spanner SQL database, which now features graph and vector search support, as well as extended full-text search capabilities. This wouldn’t be a Google announcement ...

What’s key in the market is that developers anywhere can now add a vector database, with its production-ready capabilities and lightning-fast search of unstructured data, to AI applications.

Although vector databases have been around for decades, their application was limited. Forrester estimates the current adoption rate of vector databases at 6%, with a projected surge to 18% over ...