# You Don't Need A Separate Vector Database

DevFeed: [You Don't Need A Separate Vector Database](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/you-don-t-need-a-separate-vector-database-6125.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/you-dont-need-a-separate-vector-database>)

Author: Jamie Barton

Published: 2024-11-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [libSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/libsql.md>), [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [full-text-search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/full-text-search.md>), [libsql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/libsql.md>), [rag](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rag.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>), [vector](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vector.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that many applications do not need a separate vector database. Modern databases can combine vector search with SQL, full-text search, application data, caching, and background jobs, reducing synchronization and operational complexity. It presents Turso's native libSQL vector datatype as one way to store vectors alongside regular data, while acknowledging that specialized vector databases may still be justified when their additional features are required.

## Source excerpt

Why you can skip Pinecone and friends: modern databases like Turso ship native vector search alongside SQL, full-text, and your application data in one place.