6 Hard Problems Scaling Vector Search

Why is Continuous Delivery for ML/AI hard(er)?

Since the challenge is not new and many valid solutions exist targeting traditional software projects, is there a reason to treat ML/AI systems any differently? Consider these three core challenges that are endemic in ML, AI, and data projects:

1. Development and debugging cycles are more tedious due to c

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There are numerous integrations for vector storage. These include Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch, AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL, Meta AI’s Annoy library for Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search, Cassandra, Chroma, Elasticsearch, Facebook AI Similarity Search (Faiss), MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, PGVector as a vector similarity search for Postgres, Pinec

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The architecture of systems that operate at large scale is usually highly specific to the application—there is no such thing as a generic, one-size-fits-all scalable architecture (informally known as magic scaling sauce). The problem may be the volume of reads, the volume of writes, the volume of data to store, the complexity of the data, the respo

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Systems can be dynamic. Machine learning models are inherently limited because they are trained on static datasets, so their “knowledge” is fixed. Therefore, developers need to combine models with other components, such as search and retrieval, to incorporate timely data. In addition, training lets a model “see” the whole training set, so more com

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