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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: JVector: Cutting-Edge Vector Search in Java
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Ellis (@spyced) about:
discussion of JVector, a Java-based vector search engine,
Apache Kudu as an alternative to Cassandra for wide-column databases,
FoundationDB - is a NoSQL database,
explanation of vectors and embeddings in machine learning,
different embedding models and their dimensions,
the Hamming distance,
binary quantization and product quantization for vector compression,
DiskANN algorithm for efficient vector search on disk,
optimistic concurrency control in JVector,
challenges in implementing academic papers,
the Neon database,
JVector's performance characteristics and typical database sizes,
advantages of astra DB over Cassandra,
separation of compute and storage in cloud databases,
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