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by charcircuit 990 days ago
The trade off that you are interested in isn't about storing vectors, but rather about whether an index should be a part of the DBMS or external to it.

Some advantages of having a separate index is that it can work with different backends, it can be independently scaled, and it can index data for more than 1 database server.

Some disadvantages are increased latency, increased complexity, and distributed system problems.