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PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2023-09-13 · latest 2024-02-06

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  1. …out Latern[1] yet, but have heard some good things[2]. [0] https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector [1] https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern [2] https://tembo.io/blog/postgres-vector-search-pgvector-and-la...
    comment by SparkyMcUnicorn · 2024-02-06 · in PostgreSQL is enough
  2. …built their own extension for postgres that is open source and is better for vector DB use cases: https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern But yeah! Traditional DBs already support this, if you consider this extension to be part of Postgres.
    comment by yolovoe · 2024-01-26 · in Are we at peak vector database?
  3. …the Lantern extension). This obviously has a couple downsides, but thought I would mention it. [0]: https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern/commit/dda7f064ca80af... [1]: https://neon.tech/docs/extensions/pg-extensions#custom-built... [2]:…
    comment by tristan957 · 2024-01-02 · in 90x Faster Than Pgvector – Lantern's HNSW Index Creation Time
  4. …actually should be the operator <?> instead of <->. There's some context on the operator <?> here: https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern?tab=readme-ov-file#a-...
    comment by diqi · 2024-01-02 · in 90x Faster Than Pgvector – Lantern's HNSW Index Creation Time
  5. I'm also concerned about these (tested!) errors: > https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern/blob/040f24253e5a2651... > Operator <-> can only be used inside of an index Isn't the use of the distance operator in scan+sort critical for…
    comment by mattashii · 2024-01-02 · in 90x Faster Than Pgvector – Lantern's HNSW Index Creation Time