What is a Vector Database?

What are vector databases? This SQL tutorial will walk you through this question. These kinds of sql interview questions may be prevalent in your next database interview, so make sure to walk yourself through them.

Vector databases store and query vector embeddings related to data to facilitate blazing fast searches.

Vector databases store associating similar mathematical representations of data. After a search query is conducted, the database searches for any data representation that is the closest match to the query. It doesn't quite work like traditional search, but instead, it uses the distance representation with the vector to find similar relationships.

That's why vector databases save your server precious processing time - by linking relevant items together, they ensure that the data is matched to the query only once.

Vector databases include the well-known Elasticsearch appliance, Apache Cassandra, ClickHouse, CloudFlare Vectorize and many others.

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