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Great overview, but the final section doesn't address the obvious question about how to decide between using a "vector store", like Postgres+pgvector vs a "vector database", like Pinecone. I'd love to see another presentation which discusses the various tradeoffs, like query speed, insertion/index-building speed, ease-of-use, and others to help guide people trying to decide which of the options is best for their application.


Thanks for the feedback! I'll explore this topic for upcoming articles for a deeper dive


i started compiling comparisons between a bunch a while back: http://vectorsearch.dev/

welcome any PRs


Although excellent for vector databases, unfortunately this does not include postgres with pgvector.


I'd call the former a vector extension. A database is a store with bells and whistles.




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