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Managed vector database named in the article as one of the dedicated services DuckDB users might not need.
A dev.to writeup argues tuned SQLite replaces pgvector or Pinecone on a $5 VPS. The connection discipline is the real lesson; the headline count of millions of vectors is not evidenced.
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Vector search ranks by meaning, so literal tokens like part numbers and ticket IDs fall just outside the top results. The fix is lexical plus dense retrieval, not a model upgrade.
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A dev.to writeup drops LangChain, LlamaIndex, hosted vector stores and the cloud model, leaving six files, seven npm packages, and one cloud dependency still in place.
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HNSW indexing runs inside the SQL engine, so there is no second service and no network hop. There is also no index persistence unless you turn on an experimental flag.
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