[HN Gopher] Welcome Vector Databases, Welcome Bob
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       Welcome Vector Databases, Welcome Bob
        
       Author : gk1
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-03-01 04:44 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | CSSer wrote:
       | I saw this used recently to automate some process for a Tik Toker
       | selling cosmetics consulting services[0].
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       | My question is why is this a specialized service? Is there prior
       | art for this? Why can't it be built as a Postgres extension a la
       | TimescaleDB[1]?
       | 
       | I think seeing this offered in a less proprietary capacity or
       | hearing a valid justification for why this requires such a stark
       | departure from the current state of existing, very mature, and
       | borderline insanely flexible RDBMS available would get me more
       | excited about using this.
       | 
       | Disclaimer: I'm not an ML expert. I have only cursory knowledge
       | of the space from playing with Tensorflow, reading various blogs,
       | and general openAI hype.
       | 
       | P.S. The integrations look cool, so I hope my comment doesn't
       | seem to insinuate that I don't see _any_ value here. The risk for
       | lock in without recourse just seems huge.
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       | [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34939053
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       | [1]: https://www.timescale.com/
        
         | saurik wrote:
         | > Why can't it be built as a Postgres extension a la
         | TimescaleDB[1]?
         | 
         | You mean like, pgvector?
        
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