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Replacing vector databases with SQLite and SIMD hypervectors in under 1.2GB VRAM (Hillock)

Disclosure: I am the creator of this project. After days of lurking and building up enough karma, I can finally post here. Every time I tried running local RAG on my own machine, I hit the exact same bottlenecks. First, spinning up Chroma or another vector database alongside an 8B model just to chu…

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  1. 2026-10-03 13:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Replacing vector databases with SQLite and SIMD hypervectors in under 1.2GB VRAM (Hillock)

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