--- title: VectorAI DB | daily.dev description: Actian VectorAI DB is a portable, local-first vector database marketed for running semantic search and RAG on edge, on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vectorai-db-hgurepojl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: VectorAI DB | daily.dev og:description: Actian VectorAI DB is a portable, local-first vector database marketed for running semantic search and RAG on edge, on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vectorai-db-hgurepojl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HguREPOjL.png og:image:alt: VectorAI DB 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. # VectorAI DB **[Programming Digest](https://daily.dev/sources/programmingdigest)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Actian VectorAI DB is a portable, local-first vector database marketed for running semantic search and RAG on edge, on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments without relying on cloud round-trips, per-query fees, or third-party data processing. It supports ANN indexing (HNSW), is model-agnostic with embeddings from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and Hugging Face, and handles multimodal data. Pricing tiers range from a free Community edition (5K vectors) to Starter, Growth, Enterprise, and Edge tiers, with claims of up to 22x higher QPS versus cloud-native alternatives on identical self-hosted hardware. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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