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AI · August 16, 2023

Marqo – Vectorless Vector Search

Marqo is an end-to-end vector search engine. It contains everything required to integrate vector search into an application in a single API. Here is a code snippet for a minimal example of vector search with Marqo: mq = marqo.Client() mq.create_index("my-first-index") mq.index("my-first-index").add_documents([{"title": "The Travels of Marco Polo"}]) results = mq.index("my-first-index").search(q="Marqo Polo") Why Marqo? Vector similarity alone is not enough for vector search. Vector search requires more than a vector database - it also requires machine learning (ML) deployment and management,…

Marqo – Vectorless Vector Search launched on August 16, 2023 with 62 votes, #1,450 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

Marqo is an end-to-end vector search engine that provides everything needed to add vector search capabilities to applications through a single API. It combines vector database functionality with machine learning deployment, data preprocessing, and search customization tools, eliminating the need to integrate multiple separate systems. Developers can index documents and perform semantic searches with minimal code, making it suitable for applications requiring similarity-based retrieval without extensive infrastructure setup.

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From the sources

Ecommerce Search and Discovery - marqo.ai. Contribute to marqo-ai/marqo development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Marqo is an end-to-end vector search engine. It contains everything required to integrate vector search into an application in a single API. Here is a code snippet for a minimal example of vector search with Marqo: mq = marqo.Client() mq.create_index("my-first-index")…

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