VECTOR-DB-WEAVIATE

Open-source vector DB with native vectorisation.

Definition

Weaviate v1 stable since 2020 ; v1.27 current (2025). HNSW, IVFFlat, IVFPQ indexing. Multi-tenancy with namespaces. Generative search modules (rag.openai). Weaviate Cloud Services (managed). 50K+ deployments in 2024.

Origin

Created by Bob van Luijt in 2019 in Amsterdam ; sold to Weaviate B.V. (SemiTechnologies → Weaviate).

Example in context

A fintech indexes 10M customer support tickets in Weaviate for Claude RAG (retrieval augmented generation).

Related terms

• Qdrant — Rust competitor.