Convex cofounder here. Initial focus has been low-latency OLTP database workloads, which is pretty tied to the user-facing end-to-end reactivity angle we're pushing. As a bonus feature we also have built-in strongly consistent full text search, but not vector search.
So far our answer for folks who want alternative storage/query engines is to use our streaming Airbyte source connector or write directly to Pinecone, Snowflake, etc. This should work great for most devs.
There are likely always going to be some developers who want to use a particular third party database in addition to Convex, but we plan to expand built-in support for most workloads over time so that Convex is a truly full-stack backend replacement.
So far our answer for folks who want alternative storage/query engines is to use our streaming Airbyte source connector or write directly to Pinecone, Snowflake, etc. This should work great for most devs.
There are likely always going to be some developers who want to use a particular third party database in addition to Convex, but we plan to expand built-in support for most workloads over time so that Convex is a truly full-stack backend replacement.