Special thanks to Doug Turnbull, Daniel Svonava, Atita Arora, Aarne Talman, Saurabh Rai, Andre Zayarni, Leo Boytsov, Pat Lasserre and Bob van Luijt for reading and commenting the drafts of this post
Update: I recorded a Vector Podcast episode, with the help of AI (NotebookLM), you might want to check out:
Jo Kristian Bergum recently wrote a massively influential X post: “The rise and fall of the vector database infrastructure category”.
I jokingly replied in a comment:
It is all good to chart what happened or happens on the industry level, but what a regular user should do? How to choose a vector database in this…