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Vector database

Stores embeddings and quickly finds the items closest in meaning.

A normal database finds exact matches; a vector database finds the nearest in meaning — across millions of items in milliseconds.

FAISS, Chroma, Qdrant and pgvector are popular choices. In a RAG system, the embeddings of your document chunks live here.

Example

Building search over 10,000 pages of Bangla documents with FAISS in one notebook.

বাংলায়: ভেক্টর ডেটাবেস — এমবেডিং জমা রাখে আর অর্থে সবচেয়ে কাছের জিনিসগুলো দ্রুত খুঁজে দেয়।

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