[softwaredoug]

I'm glad we're getting away from the paradigm that the only thing that matters is recall for the speed.

SOOOO much more matters than that! Any production database is going to have a huge medley of concerns and constraints. A reasonable recall at reasonable speed, but much easier to integrate and maintain, is going to be far far preferred. Not to mention a good retrieval system needs a broad range of features than just dense vector retrieval.

It's a sign the space is maturing away from being an academic/"benchmarking" competition space to one with actual industry concerns.

[codetrotter]

> […] much easier to integrate and maintain, is going to be far far preferred

Agreed. My team recently settled on Qdrant because it was fast and painless to set up and get started using.