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Louis Brandy - SQL meets Vector Search at Rockset
Season 3 · Episode 2

Louis Brandy - SQL meets Vector Search at Rockset

Vector Podcast · Dmitry Kan

May 1, 202452m 50s

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Show Notes

This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiwqVlDpsl8

00:00 Intro

00:42 Louis's background

05:39 From Facebook to Rockset

07:41 Embeddings prior to deep learning / LLM era

12:35 What's Rockset as a product

15:27 Use cases

18:04 RocksDB as part of Rockset

20:33 AI capabilities: ANN index, hybrid search

25:11 Types of hybrid search

28:05 Can one learn the alpha?

30:03 Louis's prediction of the future of vector search

33:55 RAG and other AI capabilities

41:46 Call out to the Vector Search community

46:16 Vector Databases vs Databases

49:16 Question of WHY