To Be or Not To Be — Vectorless?

Vector or Vectorless? If you have been following the AI boom recently, then you must have heard of vector databases. Alongside all the AI hype, we have also seen the rise of vector databases. Companies like Pinecone and Chroma have been on the rise. All these DB companies have been investing and raising millions of dollars. Chroma DB, for example, is an open source project available on GitHub under the Apache license with around ~1.6k stars, and it raised $18M in seed funding at a $75M valuation. But within just a few years, we are now talking about a completely vectorless architecture.