kencho

thanks for the suggestion

there's a lot more in "setting up" than creating an account and a collection on pinecone or any other service

one use case we're handling right now is for a large online auction marketplace. they needed to automatically categorize 40,000 newly uploaded images per week. no tags, no metadata from the sellers, just raw photos. elasticsearch can't look at an image and tell you it's a vintage rolex or a mid-century lamp. they needed search that understands visual content, not text

that's the kind of problem where keyword search doesn't apply at all, no matter how good the engine is

you're completely wrong. we also added "make no mistakes" in the end

the article was aimed more at teams that don't have an existing postgres setup and are evaluating standalone vector databases from scratch. if you're already running postgres with pgvector, you're in a good spot