kencho

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by kencho 7mo ago
thanks for the suggestion
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by kencho 7mo ago
there's a lot more in "setting up" than creating an account and a collection on pinecone or any other service
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by kencho 7mo ago
one use case we're handling right now is for a large online auction marketplace. they needed to automatically categorize 40,000 newly uploaded images per week. no tags, no metadata from the sellers, just raw photos. elasticsearch can&#
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by kencho 7mo ago
you're completely wrong. we also added "make no mistakes" in the end
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by kencho 7mo ago
the article was aimed more at teams that don't have an existing postgres setup and are evaluating standalone vector databases from scratch. if you're already running postgres with pgvector, you're in a good spot
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by kencho 7mo ago
pgvector is great if you're already on postgres and only need text search. funny enough, Neon Postgres actually featured us in a case study about this exact topic. we replaced pinecone and rds with neon under the hood: https:/&#x
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by kencho 7mo ago
fair point on the framing. we do use vector search internally, so calling it "not a vector database" is a stretch. the argument i was trying to make is more narrow: most teams evaluating pinecone or qdrant don't need to opera
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by kencho 7mo ago
No login required, the live demo is directly displayed in hero section and is fully interactive with real data
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by kencho 7mo ago
Exactly. We talk to teams every week who spent a month setting up pinecone or qdrant and then realize they just needed search that worked. The vector database became the default answer to every search problem because of the RAG hype cycle,
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You Don't Need a Vector Database(vecstore.app)
20 points by kencho 7mo ago|26 comments
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by kencho 7mo ago
Hello, the demo searches 10,000 paintings using semantic search, so you can type things like "dark forest with fog" or "people dancing at a party" and it actually finds relevant results even though none of those words ap
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Show HN: Search 10k paintings by describing them in plain English(vecstore.app)
2 points by kencho 7mo ago|5 comments