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If you are just getting into this tech, like me, then this article leads down the rabbit hole of different index types supported in different vector stores. Mos
by gardnr 3y ago
If you are just getting into this tech, like me, then this article leads down the rabbit hole of different index types supported in different vector stores. Most easy-to-use vector stores only use HNSW indices, which is "good enough".
A few offer different types of indices. Milvus[1] and FAISS[2] are a couple that support IVF indices. It's great to see another lightweight tool that does this with GPU acceleration.
1. https://objectbox.io/vector-database/ https://objectbox.io/vector-database/
2. https://www.pinecone.io/learn/series/faiss/vector-indexes/ https://www.pinecone.io/learn/series/faiss/vector-indexes/
- eynsham 3y agoFaiss is a library that supports indexing, not a fully-fledged vector database on its own. Milvus uses Faiss with a few other libraries to build a full vector database (https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus#acknowledgments https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus#acknowledgments).