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pgvector

Vector search inside PostgreSQL.

DatabaseOpen source

PostgreSQL extension that stores embeddings and does similarity search with indexes, alongside your other relational data.

When to use

When you already use Postgres and want semantic search without adding another database.

When to avoid

For hundreds of millions of vectors with very strict latency requirements.

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