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by kevinqualters 832 days ago
Not sure if postgres is uniquely situated, elasticsearch can do everything you mentioned and much more.
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Yes es/os has been especially great to the louie.ai team. We need to deal with a lot of data - we handle talking to real-time news, logs, social media, alerts, threat feeds, etc - and these systems were previously already scaled for large document corpuses with rich metadata even before having the vector index added. Eg, imagine having to deal with hot vs cold storage for diff queries, and auto-graduating data.

When we looked at the pricing for vector DBs and less mature DB extensions, the real playing field shrunk down pretty quick. (And esp if you want managed & unified system wherever possible vs a NIH Frankenstein.)