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The PlanetScale vectors public beta
You can now use the vector data type for vector search and storage in your PlanetScale MySQL database.
When we decided to add vector support to PlanetScale's MySQL fork, we knew it would be a long journey to ensure the solution meets our high standards for performance and scalability. We did additional work to fully integrate our solution with InnoDB and Vitess, which allows us to support transactional operations, ensure data consistency, and efficiently manage vector indexes at terabyte-scale. PlanetScale vector search is based on a novel implementation of two state-of-the art papers from Microsoft Research: SPANN(Space-Partitioned Approximate Nearest Neighbors) and SPFresh.
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