weaviate
Vector database for search and filtering
Worth a timeboxed spike before you bet on it.
Small teams with complex search needs
Manual vector search implementations
High ops burden and potential scalability issues
Evaluate Weaviate's Go client library
The numbers
Maintainers describe it as: “Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database.”
weaviate, in short
- Should a small team use weaviate?
- Pilot it. Worth a timeboxed spike before you bet on it. Small teams with complex search needs
- What does weaviate actually do?
- Vector database for search and filtering
- What does weaviate replace?
- Manual vector search implementations
- What is the downside of weaviate?
- High ops burden and potential scalability issues
- Can weaviate be used in a commercial product?
- Its licence is BSD-3-Clause, which is permissive and generally fine for commercial use. Confirm against the LICENSE file in the repository.
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