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Vector databases (beyond the hype)

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

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The Importance of Optimizing Your Database for Indexing Speed

The goal of indexing is to design efficient data structures and store the vectors in a way that they can be queried efficiently and at scale. The query stage involves you taking the user input, transforming that into a vector just like you did your raw data. Depending on the size of your data, this could take hours or even days. It's not unheard of through fear of indexing periods of the order of days.

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