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Understanding Vector Databases in the Modern Data Landscape

In the ever-expanding cosmos of data management, relational databases once held the status of celestial bodies—structured, predictable, and elegant in their ordered revolutions around SQL queries. Then came the meteoric rise of NoSQL databases, breaking free from rigid schemas like rebellious planets charting eccentric orbits. And now, we find ourselves grappling with a new cosmic phenomenon: vector databases—databases designed to handle data not in neatly ordered rows and columns, nor in flexible JSON-like blobs, but as multidimensional points floating in abstract mathematical spaces. At first glance, the term vector database may sound like something conjured up by a caffeinated data scientist at 2… Go to Post