The complex aggregations are indeed an important feature for sophisticated search products like e-commerce search with interactive filtering. There is probably no easy way for a vector db to catch up quick. But,
- Most RAG and enterprise apps don't really need that level of sophistication in UX, what they need instead is simple and reliable infrastructure
- Give vector db some time to catch up. Google Spanner didn't have any SQL capability at the early days, but they caught up after a few years, now with full SQL support. And SQL is probably more complex than Elasticsearch's aggregation.
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The complex aggregations are indeed an important feature for sophisticated search products like e-commerce search with interactive filtering. There is probably no easy way for a vector db to catch up quick. But, - Most RAG and enterprise apps don't really need that level of sophistication in UX, what they need instead is simple and reliable infrastructure - Give vector db some time to catch up. Google Spanner didn't have any SQL capability at the early days, but they caught up after a few years, now with full SQL support. And SQL is probably more complex than Elasticsearch's aggregation.