Category: Vector Database

You Probably Don’t Need a Vector Database for Your RAG — Yet

You Probably Don’t Need a Vector Database for Your RAG — Yet Numpy or SciKit-Learn might meet all your retrieval needs The post You Probably Don’t Need a Vector Database for Your RAG — Yet appeared first on Towards Data Science. Thomas Reid Go to original source

January 21, 2026
HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows

HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows How approximate vector search silently degrades Recall—and what to do about It The post HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows appeared first on Towards Data Science. Partha Sarkar Go to original source

January 8, 2026
When (Not) to Use Vector DB

When (Not) to Use Vector DB When indexing hurts more than it helps: how we realized our RAG use case needed a key-value store, not a vector database The post When (Not) to Use Vector DB appeared first on Towards Data Science. Uri Peled Go to original source

December 17, 2025