A fully managed vector database that is integrated in a highly performant NoSQL or relational database avoids the extra cost and complexity of open-source vector databases. Such a database stores, indexes, and queries embeddings alongside the corresponding original data. This approach eliminates the extra cost of replicating data in a separate pure vector database. Moreover, keeping the vector embeddings and original data together better facilitates multi-modal data operations, and enables greater data consistency, scale, and performance. Meanwhile, the fully managed service helps developers avoid the hassles from setting up, maintaining, and relying on community assistance for an open-source vector database. Moreover, some managed vector database services offer a life-time free tier.
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