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Making PostgreSQL a Better AI Database

What's this blog post about?

Two new open-source extensions, pgai and pgvectorscale, have been developed to enhance PostgreSQL as an AI database. These extensions aim to improve the ease of use and unlock large-scale, high-performance AI use cases previously achievable only with specialized vector databases like Pinecone. The new extensions complement pgvector, a popular open-source extension for vector data in PostgreSQL, by adding unique capabilities that help developers use PostgreSQL to build AI applications. Pgvectorscale enables more scalable AI applications with higher-performance embedding search and cost-efficient storage, while Pgai brings more AI workflows to PostgreSQL, like embedding creation and model completion. These extensions are open source under the PostgreSQL license and can be used in AI projects today.

Company
Timescale

Date published
June 11, 2024

Author(s)
Avthar Sewrathan

Word count
1348

Hacker News points
14

Language
English


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