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didip
on April 13, 2023
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Do you need a vector database?
If you are doing LLM, of course you do. But an amazing OSS vector DB has yet to arrived. The number of vectors it could handle needs to be in the billions, at least.
jessehu
on April 13, 2023
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What’s wrong with Faiss?
https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
rahimnathwani
on April 13, 2023
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Doesn't a faiss index have to fit in memory?
jkb79
on April 13, 2023
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Faiss implements multiple different ANN algorithms, and some like IVF can use disk based indexes.
rahimnathwani
on April 13, 2023
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Thanks. I just googled 'faiss ivf disk' and a couple of clicks later found this page:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Indexes-that-...
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