Vector Databases
Sometimes, data is rich with information and has a well-defined structure. If you know what you want, then this data is straightforward to work with in a modern database system. However, you often don’t know exactly what you need. Without specific search terms or phrases, you may not receive optimal search results. For example, you might not know the brand or name of your picky pet’s favorite food. In such complex cases, traditional information search and retrieval methods can fall short.
Modern AI research has given rise to a new class of methods that can encode the underlying semantic meaning of something instead of just its raw data. For example, AI models can understand that when you ask for the new action movie with that one actor who was also in the movie with green falling numbers, you’re asking for the latest John Wick film, which stars Keanu Reeves, who was also the star of The Matrix films.
To achieve this result, these methods...
