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We Deleted Our Vector Database. Postgres Was Faster.

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We paid for a vector database for a year. It was faster than Postgres at the one thing it does. We deleted it anyway. - managed vector store 3.2M vectors, its own SLA, its own bill - sync pipeline 1,100 lines keeping it in step with Postgres + one column embedding vector(1536) + one index hnsw I wa…

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    We Deleted Our Vector Database. Postgres Was Faster.

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