Weaviate
Open-source vector database, self-hosted or managed cloud; for storing and retrieving embeddings and structured data.
Think of it like
Vector DB you can self-host; more control, more ops work.
Example
Deploy Weaviate in Kubernetes; store document embeddings and metadata; query with Hybrid search (semantic + keyword).
How it actually works
Weaviate supports hybrid search (combining vector and keyword matching), multimodal embeddings, and GraphQL queries. Open-source (BSL license); cloud version available.
For product teams
Open-source means community momentum; monetization through managed cloud.
For engineers
Self-hostable but cloud-managed version available. More flexible than Pinecone, more ops.
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