Not All Vector Databases Are Made Equal

A detailed comparison of Milvus, Pinecone, Vespa, Weaviate, Vald, GSI and Qdrant

Dmitry Kan
Towards Data Science
7 min readOct 2, 2021

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While working on this blog post I had a privilege of interacting with all search engine key developers / leadership: Bob van Luijt and Etienne Dilocker (Weaviate), Greg Kogan (Pinecone), Pat Lasserre, George Williams (GSI Technologies Inc), Filip Haltmayer (Milvus), Jo Kristian Bergum (Vespa), Kiichiro Yukawa (Vald) and Andre Zayarni (Qdrant)

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