7 Best Vector Databases in 2026: Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus, Chroma, Turbopuffer and pgvector Compared
Retrieval-augmented generation lives or dies on the database underneath it — and the seven products below split into three very different bets: fully managed convenience, open-source control, and storage-layer economics.
Every serious RAG pipeline, recommendation engine, or semantic search feature needs somewhere to store embeddings and query them
