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Google's New Algorithms Just Made Searching Vector Databases Faster Than Ever

A Deep Dive into how Google's ScaNN and SOAR Search algorithms supercharge the performance of Vector Databases

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Dr. Ashish Bamania
Jun 20, 2024
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Vector databases are becoming increasingly popular, especially with the increasing popularity of LLMs.

For those new to them, they are a collection of Embeddings, that are vector representations of real-world entities such as text, images, audio, videos and more.

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These vector representations help capture the features and semantics of a real-world entity in a continuous vector space.

These vectors can then be used by an ML model for further processing and applications for different ML tasks.

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