[PossiblyKyle]

Fair point, then you could claim it's similar to this DB with its reliance on Faiss. Despite that, Chroma at this point is more feature rich. I was mostly referring to this https://thedataquarry.com/posts/vector-db-1/

You are not wrong about the performance from Rust, but LanceDB is inherently written with performance in mind. SIMD support for both x86 and ARM, and an underlying vector storage approach that's built for speed (Lance)

[dmezzetti]

I've seen a number of projects come over the last couple years. I'm the author of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) which I started in 2020. How you approach performance is the key point.

You can write performant code in any language. For example, for standard keyword search, I wrote a component to make sparse/keyword search just as efficient as Apache Lucene in Python. https://neuml.hashnode.dev/building-an-efficient-sparse-keyw....

[marcinzm]

>more feature rich

Not necessarily a good thing when the product is made by a VC backed startup that may die or pivot in six months leaving you the need to maintain it yourself.