Why We Stopped Using Hosted Vector DBs: What Broke in Production
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The Controversial Pivot Last quarter, we dumped our managed cloud vector DB subscription. We replaced it with an on-premise hybrid engine (local Qdrant + SQLite FTS5 on Docker loopback). Here is the hard data from production: 1. The Multi-Hop Latency Tax In an autonomous agent workflow with 8–10 se…
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- 2026-10-28 07:24 · DEV Community — AI
Why We Stopped Using Hosted Vector DBs: What Broke in Production