AnalysisDT-2026-0170
Warehouses are absorbing vector search
For teams already running one, a separate vector store is getting harder to justify.
6 minBig Data & Vector DBs
Vector types and approximate indexes now ship inside the major analytical databases. Performance trails specialists, sometimes considerably, but the operational saving of not running a second system is real.
The dividing line is write pattern. High-churn indexes still favour a dedicated store; mostly-static corpora increasingly do not.