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Part 24 · Module 5: Vector Stores and Indexing

Topic 2: Store Selection

10 min read·21 Sept 2026

Intuition: an index is an engine; a vector store is the whole car: the engine plus storage, filters, updates, backups, security, and scaling. Most projects should choose a car, not build one from an engine.

2.1 Embedded and Local: FAISS, Chroma, LanceDB, sqlite-vec

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