Storage Technology Explained: Vector Databases At The Core Of AI
ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
We look at the use of vector data in AI and how vector databases work, plus vector embedding, the challenges for storage of vector data and the key suppliers of vector database products
Artificial intelligence (AI) processing rests on the use of vectorised data. In other words, AI turns real-world information into data that can be used to gain insight, searched for and manipulated.
Vector databases are at the heart of this, because that's how data created by AI modelling is stored and from where it is accessed during AI inference.
In this article, we look at vector databases and how vector data is used in AI and machine learning. We examine high-dimension data, vector embedding, the storage challenges of vector data and the suppliers that offer vector database products.