What is Vector DB

1. What is Vector DB
2. How this is different from normal DBs
3. Why we need it
4. Popular vector DBs
5. Interview Question
6. Code and Notes

1. A Vector Database (Vector DB) is a special type of database
2. Designed to store and search vector embeddings
3. Vector embeddings Numerical representations of data such as text, images, audio, or video.

How this is different from Normal DB

1. SQL/No SQL DB stored data in structured format
2. users, orders, transactions
3. Vector Database :- Story Numerical representation or Text, Images, audio , video etc
4. SQL/No SQL DB : Get data on matches
5. Vector Database :- Get Data on similarity, Nearest Value etc

Popular Vector DB

1. Pinecone
2. Chroma
3. Redis
4. Milvus