Posts tagged with "pgvector"

Azure HorizonDB reached public preview at Build 2026: a PostgreSQL-compatible, scale-out engine with vector search built in, up to 128 TB of storage and Sweden Central among the five launch regions. For RAG embeddings on Azure the choice now runs three ways, decided by where the source data lives, how much retrieval quality matters and how close you are to Flexible Server's vertical-scaling ceiling.

The vector-database market settled in 2025. The 2026 question is less "which novel DB do we adopt" and more "do we need a separate vector store at all." A decision framework across Azure AI Search, pgvector on managed Postgres, and the dedicated managed vector platforms, with the workloads each one handles well.