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The PlanetScale vectors public beta

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Temporary_31337 ◴[22 Oct 24 22:46 UTC] No.41919492[source]▶
I work for another db vendor and we also have added vectors support. What’s crazy is that customers were not really asking for- just surfing the hype wave like everyone else. Why would someone store vectors in an SQL db rather than a dedicated vector db with support for native graph / vector semantics?
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1. redwood ◴[23 Oct 24 10:39 UTC] No.41923659[source]▶
I'd ask the opposite: why would you use a vector index without the related metadata for filtering and hybrid querying. People don't use B-Tree indexes as a standalone separate database off to the side of their database. So why should they for vectors?