pgvector

No.1339

Google's AlloyDB Express preview: a small Postgres 18 database that pauses when idle

AlloyDB Express gives developers and coding agents a 1 or 2 vCPU Postgres 18 database in seconds, scales compute to zero and has a 12-month free tier.

No.1109

Pinecone releases pg_pinecone, an Apache-2.0 Postgres extension that runs its vector search engine inside your database

pg_pinecone keeps pgvector tables and queries but adds a native engine with filtered search and no network calls, plus an optional Pinecone cloud mode.

No.0792

Tiger Data ships pg_vectorsearch, an alpha PRISM index for Postgres

Tiger Data's 13 October post introduces pg_vectorsearch, an alpha Postgres extension with a PRISM index. The post says pgvectorscale moves to maintenance.

No.0056

PostgreSQL can cover an AI app's search and data needs

pgvector, JSONB, full-text search and row security can support an AI app in one PostgreSQL database, with practical limits to measure before you scale.

No.0039

Vectors, Plainly · Part 1 of 6

Vectors, Plainly, part 1: what a vector database actually does

A vector database answers “what is closest in meaning to this?” instead of “which rows match?”. Here is the machinery: embeddings, distance, and why you never design the fields.