Vector Stores

After this skill you can…

• Set up Pinecone, Weaviate, or pgvector
• Implement metadata filtering
• Benchmark ANN recall vs latency

Prerequisites

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RAG Explained Visually 🤯 | The AI Technique Behind ChatGPT's Smart Answers

TechNextLabTelugu · beginner

→ Design vector stores for RAG→ Optimize vector search for knowledge retrieval

HyDE Retrieval in Python: Improve RAG Recall with SentenceTransformers

Professor Py: AI Engineering · intermediate

→ Use SentenceTransformers for vector encoding

PixelRAG & Qwen3-VL: The Next Evolution of Multimodal Retrieval. DeepSeek OCR. Visual Language Model

Byte Goose AI. · beginner

→ Understand Vector Stores for multimodal data→ Apply Visual Language Models for image-text retrieval

Table RAG in Python: Retrieve PDF Tables with Docling and DuckDB

Professor Py: AI Engineering · beginner hands-on

→ Use DuckDB for table ranking→ Implement TF-IDF vectorization

Docling HybridChunker in Python: Keep Headings in RAG Chunks

Professor Py: AI Engineering · intermediate hands-on

→ Ingest RAG records into a vector store→ Use lexical scoring for retrieval

Claude Opus 4 + RAG: Build an AI App with Embeddings & Knowledge Graphs | MVP Unplugged

Microsoft Developer · intermediate

→ Design a vector store for AI data→ Optimize vector store performance

What is a Vector Database? | The Technology Behind Modern AI

Neural Monk · beginner hands-on

→ Design vector databases→ Optimize vector database performance

8: The Eye and the Retina (cont'd)

MIT OpenCourseWare · intermediate theory

→ Understand how to store and retrieve vectors→ Apply vector stores to image processing

Vector Database Explained Simply | Semantic Search

GetDevOpsReady · beginner

→ Design a vector database→ Optimize vector database performance→ Use vector databases in recommendation systems

Vector Databases Explained

Analytics Vidhya · beginner

→ Design a Vector Database→ Optimize Indexing Techniques→ Compare Vector DBs

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