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You joke, but you would not blame redis for not doing joins. Vector databases are really more like caches that do similarity search. Maybe we should call them vector stores.


I can see uses for joining vector queries. Give me all the people who are attracted to people like this one. Boom, embedded.


> Give me all the people who are attracted to people like this one

This can be handled with a simple batch query rather than a join, even if you want to query for multiple users, fetching all of their related users. In qdrant, for example: https://qdrant.tech/blog/batch-vector-search-with-qdrant/




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