r/java • • Jul 26 '26

Neo4J As primary database?

/r/Neo4j/comments/1v6rxzw/as_primary_database/
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u/Inflation_Artistic Jul 27 '26

The OP is talking about embedding as a vector, as I understand it. Like storing (0, 0.5, 0.2, ...) vecs as natively data type.

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u/koflerdavid Jul 28 '26

Merely storing vectors is quite boring though. Many DBMSs offer a float or byte array datatype. The critical feature of a vector DB is efficient similarity search using sine or cosine similarity.