Postgres vs VectorDB explained in 2 minutes
aronchick · x · 2026-10-04
A retweet of pvergadia's 2-minute explainer on the difference between Postgres (columnar/relational storage for structured data) and vector databases (similarity search over embeddings for AI semantic search).
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