What's The Vector, Victor?
datanami, Friday, December 15,2023
Depending on your age, and perhaps your sense of humor, you may get that reference from the movie 'Airplane.' Regardless, it's quite likely you've seen the topic of vector databases mentioned thanks, in part, to the explosion of Large Language Models (LLMs). The increasing buzz around vector databases in recent months has led to many questions, including: What are they? How do they compare to knowledge graph databases? Why, and when, should one be used one over the other?
Both are valuable tools in the world of data management and analysis, but serve different purposes and excel in different scenarios. While both are powerful databases designed to store and query data more efficiently and flexibly than relational databases, deciding which one to use-or when to use both-requires an understanding of what the business is hoping to accomplish.