GKgiorgi kenchadzeinvecstore.hashnode.dev·Apr 22 · 8 min readThe Hidden Costs of Self-Hosting Your Vector DatabaseThe pricing page for self-hosted Qdrant says $0. Milvus says $0. pgvector says $0. That's the advertised cost. Then you actually run it in production and the bills start showing up in places you didn't expect. This post prices out the real TCO of sel...00
GKgiorgi kenchadzeinvecstore.hashnode.dev·Apr 16 · 10 min readHow to Add Image Search to a Shopify StoreMost Shopify search bars only understand keywords. A customer looking for "that kind of minimalist wooden shelf" gets a page full of irrelevant results or nothing at all. They had a clear picture in their head, but the search bar couldn't understand ...00
GKgiorgi kenchadzeinvecstore.hashnode.dev·Apr 12 · 8 min readYou Don't Need a Vector DatabaseSomewhere in the last two years, "we need a vector database" became the default answer to every search problem. Team wants better product search? Vector database. Building a recommendation engine? Vector database. Need to search images? Vector databa...00
GKgiorgi kenchadzeinvecstore.hashnode.dev·Apr 12 · 7 min readWhat It Costs to Search 1M Images in ProductionImage search looks simple until you start building it. It's actually five or six separate infrastructure problems, each with its own monthly bill. This post prices out every piece for a real production workload: 1M images, thousands of users, enterpr...00
GKgiorgi kenchadzeinvecstore.hashnode.dev·Apr 12 · 8 min readWhat Is a Vector Database (And Do You Actually Need One)?Every few years, a new type of database shows up and suddenly it's "the answer" to everything. Graph databases had their moment. Time-series databases had theirs. Right now, vector databases are in the spotlight—and unlike some hype cycles, this one ...00
