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A vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere!

22 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 6 stories, 16 comments · first 2024-05-03 · latest 2026-10-16

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  1. There exists https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec And for small enough vector sets, holding them in memory is reasonable. Most personal photo collections would fit that scale.
    comment by frumiousirc · 2026-10-16 · in What I self-host
  2. you can try this https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec its apache license
    comment by newusertoday · 2026-02-17 · in Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite
  3. …blob can be in any regular field in any regular table, like what I do. Works great. More info: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec/issues/196
  4. In contrast, https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec is dual-licensed under Apache and MIT, which makes it open source.
    comment by OutOfHere · 2025-09-26 · in Ultra efficient vector extension for SQLite
  5. Try https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec - Apache 2, Mozilla backed!
  6. …In my case, the only thing "missing" was vector search but there's a great extension for that: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec
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    Show HN: Digger Solo – Semantic Search and Maps for Local Files
    story by sean_pedersen · 2025-06-25 · 0 comments
  8. It's provided via https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec
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    Show HN: Digger Solo – Semantic File Search and Maps
    story by sean_pedersen · 2025-06-17 · 0 comments
  10. How does it compare to https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec ? Already using this in a big project.
  11. …absolutely use those. SQLite has surprisingly capable FTS built in and there are extensions like https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec for doing things with vectors.
  12. I've been using sqlite-vec, a module for sqlite3: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec
    comment by jusob · 2025-03-19 · in Ask HN: Alternatives to Vector DB?
  13. Adding some relevant links * https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec/pull/91 * https://blog.notesnook.com/getting-started-react-native-jsi/
  14. …and similarity search for Postgres. There was a recent post about storing vectors in SQLite ( https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec ). > Even if your business is another AI grift, you probably only need to import openai. There's much more…
    comment by dmezzetti · 2024-08-17 · in Just use Postgres
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    Show HN: rqlite and Docker and SQLite-vec – highly-available Vector Search
    story by otoolep · 2024-08-15 · 0 comments
  16. …link https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-sqlite-vec is an error 500. On the releases page https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec/releases/tag/v0.1.0 can you explain what is vec0.dll vs sqlite-vec-0.1.0-loadable-windows-x86_64.tar.gz,…
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    Sqlite-vec: Work-in-progress vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere
    story by brylie · 2024-08-02 · 43 comments
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    Work-in-progress vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere
    story by brylie · 2024-07-22 · 0 comments
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    SQLite-vss deprecated and its sucessor SQLite-vec
    story by lijunhao · 2024-06-08 · 2 comments
  20. …may enjoy if you wanna learn more about SQLite extensions: - The single source file for sqlite-vec: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec/blob/main/sqlite-vec.c - sqlean, a project from Anton Zhiyanov which is good base of great SQLite…
    comment by alexgarcia-xyz · 2024-05-03 · in I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
  21. …than an official release, the extension itself is still a work-in-progress. A link to the project: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec I have a pretty specific vision of what v0.1.0 of this extension will look like, but it'll take a few…
    comment by alexgarcia-xyz · 2024-05-03 · in I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
  22. …sketching of what the SQL part of sqlite-vec should look like before writing most of the code. [0] https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec/blob/main/sqlite-vec.c
    comment by alexgarcia-xyz · 2024-05-03 · in I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension