What is a Vector Database?

Generative AI is rapidly transforming technology and data management with its groundbreaking concept of vector databases. These databases are uniquely designed to handle high-dimensional vector data, which is essential for many AI and machine learning applications. Vector databases offer efficient similarity search capabilities, scalability, and support for machine learning models, making them critical tools in the modern data-driven landscape. They play a pivotal role in recommendation systems, fraud detection, face recognition, hybrid search, market research, and natural language processing. SingleStoreDB is a robust vector database that seamlessly serves AI-driven applications, chatbots, image recognition systems, and more, without requiring an additional database or plugin. It houses vector data within relational tables alongside diverse data types, empowering users to access comprehensive metadata and attributes, while leveraging SQL querying prowess. With its scalable framework, SingleStoreDB ensures unfaltering support for burgeoning data requirements, making it a go-to choice for modern data-driven scenarios.