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		altdataseller on Nov 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VectorDB: Vector Database Built by Kagi Search Where does it save the data to? How is it persisted? Is there any limitation to this? Does it work with text 500-1000 words? Does it work well with text that aren’t full sentences? Ie. Are just a collection of phrases?

tyingq on Nov 26, 2023 [–]

The README.md example just has it in memory. Looking at the source, the Storage class uses a plain file and python's pickle module:

https://github.com/kagisearch/vectordb/blob/main/vectordb/st...

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