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Elasticsearch Was Great, but Vector Databases Are the Future

16 pointsby DISCURSIVE6 months ago

4 comments

anon3738396 months ago
God, no. These tools serve fundamentally different purposes. Thinking like this is, I believe, one of the reasons it’s become so difficult to find what you’re looking for on Google when you know exactly what you’re looking for.
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patrickhogan16 months ago
Question on this. Why is this true vs just having an LLM which knows your intent coming up with SQL queries or Elasticsearch queries?<p>I assume the LLM understands my intent through a well described prompt more than a direct input vector database would. Assuming this, why does the database matter? Just have a great db backend and then on top an LLM that helps you find the data you want?
ing33k6 months ago
ES can handle vector search quite well. I have used it in prod and it&#x27;s scaled well too.
glial6 months ago
For my work, ES&#x27;s &#x27;killer feature&#x27; was not the search, but rather complex aggregations over huge datasets (despite the crazy query syntax). Hard to see how vector databases would replace that.
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