Hacker News with Generative AI: Vector Databases

Elasticsearch Was Great, but Vector Databases Are the Future (thenewstack.io)
Scaling Document Data Extraction with LLMs and Vector Databases (timescale.com)
Extracting structured data from unstructured documents is a powerful use case for large language models (LLMs). This sort of data extraction from complex documents has always remained a challenge. Done either completely manually or using current intelligent document processing (IDP) platforms that utilize previous-generation machine learning or natural language processing (NLP) techniques is very time-consuming and tedious.
Vector databases are the wrong abstraction (timescale.com)
"Your embeddings are out of sync again."
The PlanetScale vectors public beta (planetscale.com)
We're excited to announce that PlanetScale vector search and storage is now available in open beta! With PlanetScale vector support, you can store your vector data alongside your application's relational MySQL data — eliminating the need for a separate specialized vector database.
A Vector Database Plays Mario Kart 64 (medium.com)
In this article, I’ll introduce you to an original application of image search. I’ve named it Qdrant Kart, and, as you might guess, it involves using a Vector Database (Qdrant) to play Mario Kart 64 — one of my all-time favorite games.
BBQvec: An open-source, embedded vector index for Rust and Go (daxe.ai)
At Daxe, we’re building Structured Semantic Search – a complete AI search stack. Our team leverages our collective experience from OpenAI, Google, Lyft, AWS, Harvard, Berkeley, and Darden to create novel technologies for developers and organizations to harness the full potential of their data.
Using the Pinecone vector database in .NET (infoworld.com)
If you’re building generative AI applications, you need to control the data used to generate answers to user queries.
PGVector's Missing Features (trieve.ai)
PGVector offers infrastructure simplicity at the cost of missing some key features desireable in search solutions. We explain what those are in this blog.
Create a RAG Pipeline with Pinecone (vectorize.io)
This quickstart will walk you through creating and scheduling a pipeline that collects data from an Amazon S3 bucket, creates vector embeddings using an OpenAI embedding model, and writes the vectors to your Pinecone search index.
Show HN: No-Code ETL Framework for Vector Databases (github.com/ContextData)
MariaDB Introduces Open-Source Vector Preview (infoq.com)
SQLite-vec v0.1.0: a vector search SQLite extension that runs everywhere (alexgarcia.xyz)
Vector DB Comparison List (superlinked.com)
Show HN: TinkerBird – A Chrome-native vector database (github.com/wizenheimer)
Postgres vs. Pinecone (lantern.dev)
DuckDB: Vector Similarity Search Extension (duckdb.org)
Pgvector Is Now Faster Than Pinecone (twitter.com)
IndexedDB as a Vector Database (kinlan.me)
Using Your Vector Database as a JSON (Or Relational) Datastore (zilliz.com)
Show HN: A pgvector fork with the performance of Pinecone (medium.com)