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Vector dbs are quickly becoming a commodity. This was not true when pinecone was founded and received its first few rounds of funding. At this point, Postgres
by beoberha 2y ago
Vector dbs are quickly becoming a commodity. This was not true when pinecone was founded and received its first few rounds of funding.
At this point, Postgres has clearly caught up and the VCs are going to do everything it takes to hold on.
- klysm 2y agoVectors seem like kinda the easiest thing to store in a lot of ways
- beoberha 2y agoThe more advanced index algorithms don’t fit nicely into typical database indexes like B-Trees. That’s definitely why there was a lag between dbs like Pinecone and Postgres. However, that moat isn’t significant and being quickly filled in
- ldjkfkdsjnv 2y agoPinecone just put devops around facebooks FAISS library
- colordrops 2y agoIt was obvious from the beginning that vector databases were commodity. I heard about pgvector before pinecone.
- beoberha 2y agothere was a long time that pgvector only had basic similarity algorithms and not HNSW but pinecone did. That plus being “fully managed” made it a super compelling product. Nowadays, much less so, but there is still a market if it is more “enterprise ready” than others like Lantern