Why Vectors Need a Dedicated Database and How Milvus Solves It

This article explains what vectors are, why traditional relational databases struggle with high‑dimensional similarity queries, and how the open‑source Milvus vector database efficiently stores, indexes, and retrieves massive vectors for AI applications such as semantic search, image matching, and recommendation.

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Why Vectors Need a Dedicated Database and How Milvus Solves It

Xianyu Technology

Sep 7, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

Video Deduplication on Xianyu Using High‑Dimensional Vector Retrieval

The Xianyu platform combats video plagiarism by extracting key frames, converting them into 1024‑dimensional vectors, and using product quantization‑based high‑dimensional vector retrieval to achieve over 95% recall with ~100 ms latency and more than 1000 QPS, enabling scalable video, image, and product deduplication.

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Video Deduplication on Xianyu Using High‑Dimensional Vector Retrieval