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Vector Databases

Storing and searching embeddings with approximate nearest neighbors.

L3 · AdvancedFast-movingKnown~2 h

What you’ll learn

  • Explain why vector search needs specialized indexes
  • Describe how HNSW and other ANN indexes work and their tradeoffs
  • Combine metadata filtering, hybrid search, and reranking, and choose an index

Prerequisites

embeddings

Module 1. Indexing

Why vector databases exist and how ANN indexes work.

Module 2. Retrieval Quality

Filtering, hybrid search, reranking, and index choice.