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I built a local memory engine that replaces vector DBs with SQLite and runs in <1.2GB VRAM

Every time I tried running local RAG on my own GPU, I ran into the same headache: vector databases eat too much RAM, using an 8B model just to parse text takes forever, and cosine search still hallucinates when the context isn't actually there. I’ve been building Hillock to see if I could do this w…

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  1. 2026-10-01 09:10 · r/LocalLLM
    I built a local memory engine that replaces vector DBs with SQLite and runs in <1.2GB VRAM

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