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Vector Store

Database optimized for storing and querying high-dimensional vectors via approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. Examples: Qdrant, Pinecone, ChromaDB, Weaviate. Core infrastructure for RAG.

Where this is taught

• External Vector Store Memory — Phase 7: Agent Memory Systems
• Building Knowledge Bases in Dify and n8n — Phase 4: RAG Pipelines in Workflows
• RAG Attack Surface — Document Poisoning & Vector Attacks — Phase 4: RAG & Agent Security
• Embeddings & Vector Stores — Phase 6: RAG Systems & Knowledge Grounding
• RAG Access Control: Document-Level Permissions in Retrieval Systems — Phase 6: RAG Systems & Knowledge Grounding
• Vector Stores and RAG in n8n — Phase 2: n8n for AI Automation

Related terms

Embedding · ANN · RAG

More in Infrastructure

ANN (Approximate Nearest Neighbor) · Inference · Quantization · vLLM · Speculative Decoding

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