Building Blocks
2min
Building blocks are the atomic units of creating a vector retrieval stack. If you want to create a vector retrieval stack that's ready for production, you'll need to have a few key components in place. These include:
- Data sources: You can get your data from a variety of sources, including relational databases like PSQL and MySQL, data pipeline tools like Kafka and GCP pub-sub, data warehouses like Snowflake and Databricks, and customer data platforms like Segment. The goal here is to extract and connect your data so that it can be used in your vector stack.
- Vector computation: This involves turning your data into vectors using models from Huggingface or your own custom models. You'll also need to know where to run these models and how to bring all of your computing infrastructure together using tools like custom spark pipelines or products like Superlinked. The ultimate goal is to have production-ready pipelines and models that are ready to go.
- Vector search & management: This is all about querying and retrieving vectors from Vector DBs like Weaviate and Pinecone, or hybrid DBs like Redis and Postgres (with pgvector). You'll also need to use search tools like Elastic and Vespa to rank your vectors. The goal is to make the vectors indexable and search for relevant vectors when needed.
Updated 17 Nov 2023
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