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Postgres vs. Pinecone

by diqi on 7/19/24, 3:44 PM with 17 comments

  • by beoberha on 7/20/24, 2:17 AM

    Vector dbs are quickly becoming a commodity. This was not true when pinecone was founded and received its first few rounds of funding.

    At this point, Postgres has clearly caught up and the VCs are going to do everything it takes to hold on.

  • by cellis on 7/20/24, 1:38 AM

    Wow this should be getting a lot more love. I wonder if you could do a breakdown vs Qdrant?
  • by Rapzid on 7/20/24, 3:13 AM

    I wonder how much index creation degrades if the storage were 4th gen NVMe drives vs other other, more typical storage technologies.
  • by elijahbenizzy on 7/20/24, 3:10 AM

    The venn diagram of "problems that people have" and "problems that postgres solves" is closer to a circle than many would like to admit.
  • by hdhshdhshdjd on 7/20/24, 2:01 AM

    Indexing in Postgres is legitimately painful, I don’t think “get moar ram” is a good response to that particular critique.
  • by esafak on 7/20/24, 3:19 AM

    How does it compare with LanceDB, and what's interesting about lantern technically?
  • by Labo333 on 7/20/24, 2:07 AM