You Can Do Better than Having Just a Vector Database

In the recent past, the database market is seeing a proliferation of speciality vector databases. Companies that buy these database management systems and plug them into their data architectures may be initially hopeful about their ability to query for vector similarity. But the short-lived excitement eventually turns into regret about bringing yet another component into their application environment. Vectors and vector search are just a data type and query processing approach, not a foundation for a new way of processing data. Using a speciality vector database (SVDB) will lead to the usual problems we see and keep solving again and again. Already, customers normally use multiple speciality systems: redundant data, excessive data movement, lack of agreement on data values among distrib