[habibur]

One thing I can confirm from this code is that unlike what I previously thought vector search is not the main point of a vector database, rather it's read, write, update crud, just like normal SQL databases, with the exception that data are vector data instead of text and numbers.

[blovescoffee]

What did you previously think a vector db was?

[ericlewis]

sounds like they thought it was something more akin to Elastisearch

[falling_myshkin]

i think the confusion comes from the mixup between the words "database", "store", and "index". Vector "store" is trivial, even for hundreds of millions of vectors you are still in the realm of what is possible on a single disk. Vector "index" to enable efficient aNN is not trivial for large numbers of high-dimensional vectors, and this is usually the proposed value add of someone providing a vector "database", which combines the two. I think this is also how the words are understood more generally. This project is a wrapper over Cloudflare's infrastructure, which does provide a vector index, though it is not clear how well their index performs in real-world use cases.