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RIP, vector database

397 points · 116 comments · razin

  1. childintime · · focus · HN ↗
    Is it time to kill the database and replace it with a LLM optimized compiled version that simply implements the required API directly in (Rust) code, without any dynamic overhead? It probably will still be based of off a base design or a base file format.

    Ultimately this system will encompass the whole OS, of course, but the DB might be the best place to start.

    1. Ostatnigrosh · · focus · HN ↗
      Unless you're tigerbeetle and want to handroll every single thing you do lol
      1. childintime · · focus · HN ↗
        everything code is going to be liquefied, maybe even including tigerbeetle. simpler systems are simply more reliable, and the effects compound (= the best part is no part). organizations will get rid of database professionals and buy their migration expertise externally, when they need it. it won't be from Oracle.
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