NEAREST BY Join: Scaling Vector Search in Databricks Runtime
Databricks has published an article titled "NEAREST BY Join: Scaling Vector Search in Databricks Runtime." The piece is framed around the NEAREST BY join as a way to scale vector search within the Databricks Runtime.
According to the accompanying excerpt, vector search originated as a serving problem. The excerpt states that the classical use case is a chatbot.
No further details about the join's implementation, performance characteristics, availability, or supported workloads were included in the headline or excerpt.
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Publisher excerpt
Vector search originated as a serving problem. The classical use case is a chatbot...