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Dictionary/vector-database
Dictionary

Vector Database

A database optimized for similarity search over embeddings.

Definition
A Vector Database stores high-dimensional embeddings and retrieves the nearest neighbors of a query vector, enabling semantic search, recommendation, and the retrieval step of RAG.
Example
Embed every paragraph of your docs, then at query time embed the user question and pull the top 5 nearest paragraphs as grounding.
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