The Vector DB Money Pit: Why “Boring” SQL is the Best Choice for GenAI
Stop paying “Specialized DB” premiums to store 50MB of embeddings. I audited a GenAI startup last month that was paying $500/month for a managed Vector Database cluster. I asked to see the dataset. It was 12,000 PDF pages. The actual storage footprint of those embeddings? Less than 200MB. They were paying a specialized vendor enterprise…