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There are now over 20 commercial vector database management systems (VDBMSs), all produced within the past five years. But embedding-based retrieval has been studied for over ten years, and similarity search a staggering half century and…

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The rapid growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-driven applications has propelled Vector Database Management Systems (VDBMSs) into the spotlight as a critical infrastructure component. VDBMS specializes in storing, indexing, and…

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Vector database management systems have emerged as an important component in modern data management, driven by the growing importance for the need to computationally describe rich data such as texts, images and video in various domains such…

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This survey explores the synergistic potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vector Databases (VecDBs), a burgeoning but rapidly evolving research area. With the proliferation of LLMs comes a host of challenges, including…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhi Jing , Yongye Su , Yikun Han , Bo Yuan , Haiyun Xu , Chunjiang Liu , Kehai Chen , Min Zhang

Vector search (VS) has become a fundamental component in multimodal data management, enabling core functionalities such as image, video, and code retrieval. As vector data scales rapidly, VS faces growing challenges in balancing search,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yitong Song , Xuanhe Zhou , Christian S. Jensen , Jianliang Xu

Vector database management systems (VDBMSs) play a crucial role in facilitating semantic similarity searches over high-dimensional embeddings from diverse data sources. While VDBMSs are widely used in applications such as recommendation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yinglin Xie , Xinyi Hou , Yanjie Zhao , Shenao Wang , Kai Chen , Haoyu Wang

Traditional retrieval methods have been essential for assessing document similarity but struggle with capturing semantic nuances. Despite advancements in latent semantic analysis (LSA) and deep learning, achieving comprehensive semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Solmaz Seyed Monir , Irene Lau , Shubing Yang , Dongfang Zhao

The proliferation of unstructured data poses a fundamental challenge to traditional database interfaces. While Text-to-SQL has democratized access to structured data, it remains incapable of interpreting semantic or multi-modal queries.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zhengren Wang , Dongwen Yao , Bozhou Li , Dongsheng Ma , Bo Li , Zhiyu Li , Feiyu Xiong , Bin Cui , Linpeng Tang , Wentao Zhang

Vector data is prevalent across business and scientific applications, and its popularity is growing with the proliferation of learned embeddings. Vector data collections often reach billions of vectors with thousands of dimensions, thus,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ilias Azizi , Karima Echihab , Themis Palpanas , Vassilis Christophides

Vector data is prevalent across business and scientific applications, and its popularity is growing with the proliferation of learned embeddings. Vector data collections often reach billions of vectors with thousands of dimensions, thus,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ilias Azizi , Karima Echihabi , Themis Palpanas

Vector databases have rapidly grown in popularity, enabling efficient similarity search over data such as text, images, and video. They now play a central role in modern AI workflows, aiding large language models by grounding model outputs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Seth Ockerman , Amal Gueroudji , Song Young Oh , Robert Underwood , Nicholas Chia , Kyle Chard , Robert Ross , Shivaram Venkataraman

Vector search has been widely employed in recommender system and retrieval-augmented-generation pipelines, commonly performed with vector indexes to efficiently find similar items in large datasets. Recent growths in both data and task…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zhaoheng Li , Wei Ding , Silu Huang , Zikang Wang , Yuanjin Lin , Ke Wu , Yongjoo Park , Jianjun Chen

Computer science texts are particularly rich in both narrative content and illustrative charts, algorithms, images, annotated diagrams, etc. This study explores the extent to which vector-based multimodal retrieval, powered by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Beth Plale , Sai Navya Jyesta , Sachith Withana

Vector representations and vector space modeling (VSM) play a central role in modern machine learning. We propose a novel approach to `vector similarity searching' over dense semantic representations of words and documents that can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Jan Rygl , Jan Pomikálek , Radim Řehůřek , Michal Růžička , Vít Novotný , Petr Sojka

Vector databases typically manage large collections of embedding vectors. Currently, AI applications are growing rapidly, and so is the number of embeddings that need to be stored and indexed. The Faiss library is dedicated to vector…

Traditional database management systems need help efficiently represent and querying the complex, high-dimensional data prevalent in modern applications. Vector databases offer a solution by storing data as numerical vectors within a…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Gulshan Yadav , RahulKumar Yadav , Mansi Viramgama , Mayank Viramgama , Apeksha Mohite

The rapid growth of machine learning capabilities and the adoption of data processing methods using vector embeddings sparked a great interest in creating systems for vector data management. While the predominant approach of vector data…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Viktor Sanca , Anastasia Ailamaki

With the development of learning-based embedding models, embedding vectors are widely used for analyzing and searching unstructured data. As vector collections exceed billion-scale, fully managed and horizontally scalable vector databases…

Vector data management systems (VDMSs) have become an indispensable cornerstone in large-scale information retrieval and machine learning systems like large language models. To enhance the efficiency and flexibility of similarity search,…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tiannuo Yang , Wen Hu , Wangqi Peng , Yusen Li , Jianguo Li , Gang Wang , Xiaoguang Liu

Vector indexing enables semantic search over diverse corpora and has become an important interface to databases for both users and AI agents. Efficient vector search requires deep optimizations in database systems. This has motivated a new…

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