DataStax on Tuesday said that it was releasing a new JSON API in order to help JavaScript developers leverage its serverless, NoSQL Astra DB as a vector database for their large language model (LLMs), AI assistant, and real-time generative AI projects.
Vector search, or vectorization, especially in the wake of generative AI proliferation, is seen as a key capability by database vendors as it can reduce the time required to train AI models by cutting down the need to structure data — a practice prevalent with current search technologies. In contrast, vector searches can read the required or necessary property attribute of a data point that is being queried.
