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Qdrant looks great, thanks for sharing! I'll definitely play around with it and do some benchmarks :) Have you used it / compared it with faiss yourself?

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There are benchmarks. However it does not really make sense to compare with a library https://qdrant.tech/benchmarks/#why-you-are-not-comparing-wi...

Hey, I wrote an article describing the difference between FAISS, which is a library, and Qdrant - a proper database: https://lukawskikacper.medium.com/i-used-faiss-so-you-dont-h...

TLDR: using a vector database for production systems really pays off, as library is hard to maintain in a long run

Thanks for sharing! Hmm, it isn’t clear to me from your post why a library would be harder to maintain. Could you share more? The database seems to add quite a bit of complexity at a system-level and I’m still not sure the benefit.

Sure thing! If you decide to use a library that other processes or machines will communicate with, you need to build a whole service around it. The library also doesn't scale well if you need to go beyond a single-machine setup. With a proper database, the distributed deployment is already built-in, so you can scale it up on demand.

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