--- title: The Rise of Vector Databases: Understanding Vector... description: This post explains the fundamentals of vectors and vector databases, as well as the implementation of vector searches and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-vector-databases-understanding-vector-search-and-rag-pipeline-50e9ihqdy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Rise of Vector Databases: Understanding Vector Search and RAG Pipeline | daily.dev og:description: This post explains the fundamentals of vectors and vector databases, as well as the implementation of vector searches and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-vector-databases-understanding-vector-search-and-rag-pipeline-50e9ihqdy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/50E9IHqDy.png og:image:alt: The Rise of Vector Databases: Understanding Vector Search and RAG Pipeline og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Rise of Vector Databases: Understanding Vector Search and RAG Pipeline **[Towards AI](https://daily.dev/sources/tai)** · 7 min read · 21 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This post explains the fundamentals of vectors and vector databases, as well as the implementation of vector searches and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using Qdrant Vector Database. 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