Vector DB

What is a vector DB?

Not sure, let me see if I can find out by reading this turbopuffer blog.

My summary of the post: Readwise’s relational DB was much cheaper than what vector search on their documents would cost. What is vector search? Finding text sematically similar to a given text (search Word2Vec for more info).

Didn’t really understand their cost comparisons.

Further reading: https://turbopuffer.com/architecture https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08566 https://turbopuffer.com/docs/roadmap https://turbopuffer.com/docs/limits https://cohere.com/llmu/sentence-word-embeddings https://fixie.ai/blog/best-vdb-2023 https://qdrant.tech/articles/what-is-a-vector-database/