jeffchuber

seems like flock is a great honeypot to find bad cops

that one platform is using a flipped chroma logo - chroma has nothing to do with this racket (source : i’m chroma’s ceo)

then you are not agi pilled

If you are truly bitter-lesson pilled - give the agent all the tools and let it decide which to use.

- regex (grep) - hybrid search (bm25+vector)

this X vs Y is uninteresting when the answer can be both.

yeah (optional) caching is interesting to think about - incl write_through and write_back

try out chroma or better yet as opus to!

i didnt claim to invent it.

i claimed swyx heard it through me - which he did

that was me swyx

i support this

Good article - the most use cases i see of pg_vector are typically “chat over their technical docs” - small corpus - doesn’t change often / can rebuild the index - no multi-tenancy avoids much of the issues with post-filtering

Chroma implements SPANN and SPFresh (to avoid the limitations of HNSW), pre-filtering, hybrid search, and has a 100% usage-based tier (many bills are around $1 per month).

Chroma is also apache 2.0 - fully open source.

congrats to factory on the amazing product and release!

chroma stores both

Hey there

Chroma is fully OSS - embedded, single-node and distributed (data and control plane). afaik lance distributed is not OSS.

We do have plans to release the crate (enabling embedded chroma in rust) - but haven't gotten around to it yet. Hopefully soon!

> Do you see all providers converging on similar alpha i.e cheap object storage, nvme drives,ssd cache to solve this?

It's not only a new pattern in search workloads, but it's happening in streaming, KV, OLTP, OLAP, etc. Yea - it's the future.