Vector Database
How Vector Database Works in Production
Traditional relational databases like PostgreSQL optimize for exact key-value or B-tree lookups. Vector databases (such as Qdrant, Pinecone, Milvus, or pgvector) organize millions of dense vectors into specialized graph structures like HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World). This enables sub-20ms semantic similarity queries across massive document corpora with role-based access filtering.
Practical Enterprise Workflow
An enterprise indexes 500,000 PDF contracts. When a legal query arrives, pgvector executes an HNSW search with metadata filters (tenant_id = 42 AND status = 'active') returning the top 5 relevant clauses in 14ms.
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