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any resource for one to learn on vector search? any textbook or whitepaper recommendations?

I am learning lsh right now and find it fascinating

We have a "Vector Database 101" series that covers vector search and vector indexes as well: https://zilliz.com/learn/what-is-vector-database

I've been meaning to dive into SCaNN and DiskANN as well, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

> I've been meaning to dive into SCaNN and DiskANN as well, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

quick TLDR on both vs HNSW?

any ideas what do cloud providers like pinecone user underneath ?

I'm from Pinecone. We use proprietary indexes. We could've used HNSW but decided the high memory consumption (ie, costly at scale) and slow index updates (ie, data gets stale) won't cut it for production use cases.

Oh I read a lot of HNSW stuff on your/Pinecone blog series. (Great learning resource btw, well done!) So I assumed you were using HNSW already. It's a news to me that you don't use it.

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