Trendingby GlyphVector databases
Plateau · emerged February 2017 · high April 2026 · -7% on the month before · 13 mentions on Trending in 14 days
Databases that store embeddings and find the nearest ones fast, the retrieval layer under RAG and semantic search. Named by Johnson, Douze and Jegou, Facebook AI Research: Billion-scale similarity search with GPUs (FAISS) (Feb 28, 2017). Also called Vector search, Vector store, Embeddings database, pgvector.
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Signals
Hacker News stories, last 12 months201 stories, +24% on the 12 months before
arXiv papers, last 12 months370 papers, +49% on the 12 months before
Wikipedia views, October 20266,641, -35% on a year beforeAgainst its high-22% from the high of April 2026
Product releases naming it285 since Feb 19, 2026GitHub repositories12,056Funding rounds naming it2, $78M in allConferences about it1| Signal | Reads as | |
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| Hacker News stories, last 12 months201 stories, +24% on the 12 months before | 201 stories, +24% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| arXiv papers, last 12 months370 papers, +49% on the 12 months before | 370 papers, +49% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| Wikipedia views, October 20266,641, -35% on a year before | 6,641, -35% on a year before | Decline |
| Against its high-22% from the high of April 2026 | -22% from the high of April 2026 | Decline |
| Product releases naming it285 since Feb 19, 2026 | 285 since Feb 19, 2026 | Adoption |
| GitHub repositories12,056 | 12,056 | Adoption |
| Funding rounds naming it2, $78M in all | 2, $78M in all | Adoption |
| Conferences about it1 | 1 | Adoption |
Companies
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| 31 | |
 AWS | 14 |
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Releases
285 releases since Feb 19, 2026Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces intelligent ingestion for logs and documents in Amazon S3AWS| Name | |
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| Oct 29, 202611 days ago | |
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| Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces intelligent ingestion for logs and documents in Amazon S3AWS · Oct 22, 2026 2 weeks ago | Oct 22, 20262 weeks ago |
GitHub projects
12,056 repositoriesmilvus-io/milvusMilvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN searchqdrant/qdrantQdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloudweaviate/weaviateWeaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structuralibaba/zvecA lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector databaserocketride-org/rocketride-serverHigh-performance AI pipeline engine with a C++ core and 50+ Python-extensible nodes. Build, debug, and scale LLM workflows with 13+ model probjectbox/objectbox-javaDatabase for Android and JVM - first and fast, lightweight on-device vector database
| Name | Stars | |
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| milvus-io/milvusMilvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search · Sep 16, 2019 7 years ago | Sep 16, 20197 years ago | 46,248 |
| qdrant/qdrantQdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud · May 30, 2020 6 years ago | May 30, 20206 years ago | 34,798 |
| weaviate/weaviateWeaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structur · Mar 30, 2016 10 years ago | Mar 30, 201610 years ago | 16,842 |
| alibaba/zvecA lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database · Dec 5, 2025 11 months ago | Dec 5, 202511 months ago | 16,002 |
| rocketride-org/rocketride-serverHigh-performance AI pipeline engine with a C++ core and 50+ Python-extensible nodes. Build, debug, and scale LLM workflows with 13+ model pr · Feb 11, 2026 9 months ago | Feb 11, 20269 months ago | 11,048 |
| objectbox/objectbox-javaDatabase for Android and JVM - first and fast, lightweight on-device vector database · Jan 24, 2017 9 years ago | Jan 24, 20179 years ago | 4,624 |
Funding
2 roundsPartnerships
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| Nov 19, 20241 year ago |
Conferences
1 conference| Name | |
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| VectorSearch Conference 2025Online · Jun 6, 2025 1 year ago | Jun 6, 20251 year ago |
Related movements
History
Stage changed from peak to plateau
Tracking started: emerged February 2017, peak, 4 other names recorded
| Date | What changed |
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| Oct 2, 2026 | Stage changed from peak to plateau |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Tracking started: emerged February 2017, peak, 4 other names recorded |
Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Nov 1, 2026. Related entities from the other Glyph Ibis sources' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.