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Vector Databases Are Dead. Use This Instead

Devsplainers· 22.7K subscribers

23d ago · English audio

turbopuffer sells a vector database and runs search for Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. On September 30 it published a post called "RIP, vector database." If your RAG chatbot runs on a vector DB, do you need to rip it out? I compared the three other ways AI companies now let a model find your data, with benchmarks and cost per answer. Agentic search puts the model in a search loop. It beats the classic RAG pipeline…

3.2×Score at discovery
62.4KViews
19.4KMedian · 50 videos

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This score was measured on Sat, 31 Oct 2026 07:11:23 GMT. Current view counts may differ.

62.4K views ÷ a 19.4K baseline = 3.2×. Compared with 50 earlier videos from the same channel, matching the format recorded at scoring time. Older-upload baseline: reference videos had at least as long to gain views. This comparison is not age-matched.

YouTube snapshot: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:54:30 GMT. Counters may have changed.

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Channel-balanced percentile: 97

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132 videos from 88 other channels, with each channel weighted equally. Same format and language, with 10,000–99,999 subscribers. Observed at 556 hours after publication, within ±48 hours.

This describes the collected sample, not all of YouTube. Updated Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:33:07 GMT.

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