The Importance of Hybrid Search

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Prashanth: I agree with you. There's a lot of also new entrants into the field that show a lot of promise, even the ones that aren't quite as mature yet. So maybe I quickly go through at a high level and then we can go into the final details of which ones you think are the most interesting. It's basically purpose-built versus existing solution. That's number one. Number two was external embedding pipeline versus built in hosting pipeline. The others are going more into the actual indexes and generation of those indexes in more detail.

There’s so much talk (and hype) these days about vector databases. We thought it would be timely and practical to have someone on the show that has been hands on with the various options and actually tried to build applications leveraging vector search. Prashanth Rao is a real practitioner that has spent and huge amount of time exploring the expanding set of vector database offerings. After introducing vector database and giving us a mental model of how they fit in with other datastores, Prashanth digs into the trade offs as related to indices, hosting options, embedding vs. query optimization, and more.

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