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AI-Assisted Coding
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AI-Assisted Coding

by Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Michael Kofler, Bernd Öggl, Sebastian Springer
April 2026
Intermediate
399 pages
11h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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12.5    Vector Store Databases

To avoid having to recalculate the vector embeddings every time the application is started, we’ll save the index in a database. The task of the vector database is to store the numerical representation of unstructured data (the vectors with their dimensions) and to search for them using various algorithms. The implementations are divided into those in which external libraries perform this search in an existing (relational or NoSQL) database, those in which plug-ins are used in the database, and genuine vector databases.

Real vector databases are on a par with SQL and NoSQL databases. While SQL databases force the source data into a strong structure (through rigid tables with many data types), NoSQL structures the ...

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