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Timescale Vector x LangChain: Making PostgreSQL A Better Vector Database for AI Applications

What's this blog post about?

The Timescale Vector integration for LangChain enables developers to build better AI applications with PostgreSQL as their vector database, offering faster similarity search, efficient time-based search filtering, and operational simplicity of a single cloud PostgreSQL database. This integration enhances pgvector with state-of-the-art ANN index inspired by the DiskANN algorithm, achieving 243% faster search speed at ~99 % recall than Weaviate and outperforming all existing PostgreSQL search indexes. Timescale Vector also supports time-based context retrieval for RAG and advanced self-querying capabilities in LangChain applications.

Company
LangChain

Date published
Sept. 24, 2023

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Word count
3731

Language
English

Hacker News points
20


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