[themanmaran]

I fell into this trap as well. Started pretty hyped about vector dbs as the "magical crtl+f". Realized I needed some keyword matching as well. And also some transforms to get the right format for vector search. And also multiple chunking strategies for more fidelity search.

A month in I realize I'm trying to reinvent a search engine. Kinda wonder if I should have just used something like elasticsearch instead.

[Linell]

It's worth saying that ES can work as a vector store itself, so it's very easy to handle a couple different kinds of searches this way.