[rstocker99]

Postgres RDS has version 0.5 of the pgvector extension installed by default.

Adding vector support to our app was as easy as enabling the extension and created a table with vector columns. No additional database required and trivial to do mixed queries. Maybe Pinecone and friends have better scalability, but if you need basic vector support, you can do it easily on RDS.

See here for details:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/amazon-rd...

[lexandstuff]

Fair enough. I researched it earlier in the year and it wasn't available.

I stand by my point: we often hear that adding a new tool to your stack is introducing unnecessary complexity, when more often not using the right tool is the path of most complexity.