As a solutions architect with over two decades of experience in relational database systems, I recently started exploring MariaDB’s new Vector Edition to see if it could address some of the AI data challenges we’re facing. A quick look seemed pretty convincing, especially with how it could bring AI magic right into a regular database setup. However, I wanted to test it with a simple use case to see how it performs in practice.
In this article, I will share my hands-on experience and observations about MariaDB’s vector capabilities by running a simple use case. Specifically, I will be loading sample customer reviews into MariaDB and performing fast similarity searches to find related reviews.