What makes vector databases essential for RAG and AI apps?
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Explains why vector databases replace token-based inverted indexes for RAG by storing ML-produced embeddings as arrays of floats/bytes so queries and documents share the same space, and using approximate nearest neighbors to return similar images, audio, and text quickly. Shows an Elastic code snippet (classic token extraction vs embedding pipeline), names limitations of keyword search, claims semantic search improves QA and multimedia retrieval, and demonstrates vectors scale for production-grade RAG.
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