Weaviate
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An open-source vector database for production semantic search and RAG, available self-hosted or as a managed cloud service.
Overview
Weaviate is a mature open-source vector database with built-in vectorization modules, hybrid keyword-and-vector search, and multi-tenancy — the last being genuinely useful for SaaS and enterprise apps that must isolate customer data. You can self-host it or run Weaviate Cloud as a managed service. Among the open vector databases it is a well-rounded, production-credible choice. As always, the database is the easy part: retrieval quality, chunking, and evaluation remain the work that determines whether RAG actually performs.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Mature open-source vector database
- Hybrid keyword-plus-vector search
- Multi-tenancy for isolating customer data
- Self-hosted or managed cloud
Cons
- Self-hosting carries an operational burden
- Retrieval quality still depends on your tuning
- Another datastore to run and monitor
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