What's your favorite vector search engine?

Question

For a project I'm working on, a vector search engine is needed: we have a big dataset of strings and their embeddings and we will run a vector-based search on it.I have used Weaviate in the past, and found it fast and reliable.Another suggestion was ElasticSearch.This prompted me to search online for comparison, and a lot of other options presented themselves: Pinecone, Qdrant, etc.How to choose between them? What do you use? Why do you prefer it to the alternatives?

andre-z · Accepted Answer

Well, it depends on your needs. Do you have any requirements for performance, latency, etc? You should check https://qdrant.tech/benchmarks/ The feature set is also pretty different. You should choose the one fitting better to your needs and is simple to set up, use, and also deploy and maintain. Disclaimer: I'm from the Qdrant team. Feel free to reach out or join on Discord https://qdrant.to/discord We are glad to answer any questions.

joshxyz · Answer

http://milvus.io/

thirdtrigger · Answer

Thanks for your kind words about Weaviate (I&rsquo;m affiliated).