Vector database

As explained in Build Applications with Local AI Models on a Mac

A vector database stores vector representations and supports searching for vectors that are similar or close to a query vector.

How Build Applications with Local AI Models on a Mac covers it

How deep it goes

Defines vector storage and similarity search, but does not explain implementation or internals.

Examples

Names ChromaDB as an example of a vector database used for RAG.

What you can do after

Understand vector databases as a component of RAG architectures.

How it connects

Connects vector databases with retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.

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Related concepts

• Chroma DBincludes · Chroma is an open-source vector database for storing and querying embeddings and associated data, such as documents and metadata.
• Pineconeincludes · Pinecone is a managed cloud vector database service for storing, indexing, and querying vector embeddings, including through similarity search.
• VectorStoreChatMemoryAdvisorused by · VectorStoreChatMemoryAdvisor is a Spring AI advisor that stores chat messages as embeddings in a vector store and retrieves relevant messages as conversational context.
• retrieval-augmented generationused by · Retrieval-augmented generation is a technique that retrieves relevant information from external sources and supplies it as context to a generative model when producing an output.

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