# Vehicle Search with SQL and Vector Embeddings

DevFeed: [Vehicle Search with SQL and Vector Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/vehicle-search-with-sql-and-vector-embeddings-23822.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/vehicle-search-sql-vector-embeddings>)

Author: Alejandro Infanzon

Published: 2026-01-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cockroach-labs.md>)

Topics: [CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroachdb.md>), [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [image-to-image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/image-to-image.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [vector](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vector.md>), [vector-search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vector-search.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial demonstrating a vehicle-search application that uses Python, SQL, CockroachDB, vector embeddings, and image-to-image similarity search. Users can search for visually similar cars from an image while applying price filters.

## Source excerpt

"I'll know it when I see it" is the classic car buyer's line, but it's also the one thing old-school search bars totally fail to deliver. Traditional keyword search fails when a customer wants a car that "looks like this photo from Fast and Furious." This is where vector search comes in, transforming unstructured data into mathematical vectors to find semantically similar items.